Why we ended with Haroun

There are many reasons for why I feel we ended off the semester by reading this book. Throughout the semester we have discussed many different types of heroes and there different types of roles that they have. In Haroun there are all sorts of different roles and heroes that are being played that relate to what we have discussed over the whole semester. For example, there are mystical heroes throughout the book just like in other novels that we have read and talked about. Also the relation to the anti-hero goes with Haroun and Mudra, which also relates to all of the anti-hero we have talked about. Lastly this novel also relates to the hero cycle, which is the biggest focus in the class this semester. In almost every movie or book there is a hero cycle, which appears in this novel. The way Haroun travels and goes through all the steps of the hero cycle is a perfect way to end the semester because everything we have learned throughout the whole semester is put together all in one novel, which I think is a great way to end off the year.

Women super heroes

In todays society we have very few well known women superheroes. The few women superheroes that I am most familiar with would be Cat Woman and completely different from Cat Woman, Uma Thurman who plays the killer in the movie Kill Bill. WHen thinking about both of these women superheroes they both have very different ways of going about what they do to make them a superhero. The way we value our female superheroes I believe is very different from how we value male superheroes. For male superheroes we see them as the best of the best and can defeat any monsters or villains that are in our way. But when we think about women superheroes we typically don't picture them as the big crime fighters when in reality they can do just as much as a male superhero. I don't believe women superheroes are given as much credit as they should because in the movies or comics that have female superheroes they do everything that a male superhero can do and can even do it better in some situations. Even though in todays society women superheroes are not given the credit and attention they deserve they should have it because they can do everything that a male superhero can do.