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- Hector portrays heroic action by going out into the battlefield, risking his life, for the sake of his wife and his kids, as well as the people of Troy.
- Hector leaves the comfort of his home and the hospitality of his family for Troy and his neighbors, friends, and family.
- These selfless actions lead him to obtain the title of a hero.

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- A hero is someone who puts others before them self
- An ordinary person who genuinely wants to help someone even though it does not involve them or have personal gain

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Man in the Water vs. Hector Similarities 

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Man in the Water vs. Hector Similarities 

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- The man in the water and Hector relate to this idea of being a hero in many ways. They both gave up their life for the sake of saving someone else. In Hector's case its his family, but in the man in the water he gives up his life to help and save strangers.
- Their selfless actions led to their death, but at the same time saved many people causing them to receive the title of a hero.

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The man in the water has given his life line away to this woman as she struggles to survive.

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"My pain focuses on you, when one of the bronze-clad Achaean's leads you off in tears , ends your days of freedom" (Hermes 48).

"I have learned always to be brave, to fight alongside Trojans at the front, striving to win fame for father and myself" (Hermes 48).

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- Hector does not demonstrate any sense of selflessness while fighting, and toward the end of the book, only seems to be fighting for his own pride and reputation.
-The Man in the Water put stranger's lives before his own, knowing that his chances of living were decreasing by each person he saved. His actions demonstrated bravery and selflessness for the goodness of others, where Hector was only portrayed as doing things for the benefit of himself.

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- The unknown man in the water was selfless, despite knowing he would die by not taking the ring and handing it off to the other people in need
- He put other people's lives before his, even if he did not have any connection to them, besides from being in the plane crash together

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"Every time they lowered a

lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers. “In a mass casualty, you’ll find people like him,” said Windsor. “But I’ve never seen one with that commitment.”"

'For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. [...] he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he deliberately let it happen."