Heros

To me, a hero is a person who performs the tasks they are required to do and beyond. A hero is a person who tries their hardest at what they are doing and does it because they want to help people. A hero is the person who does something for the benefit of others, not thinking about what will happen to themselves, only to the people around them. A hero is a person who gives hope in times where there is none. A hero is a person people turn to in times of need. This is a person who is a hero in my eyes.

                

A great example of this would be Mary Donnelly. I heard about her a few weeks ago on a news show called Sunday Morning, and I think she is the greatest example of a hero. She is 83 and lives on Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island. Mary Donnelly is a nurse. What makes her a hero is that she goes directly to peoples’ houses to treat them. In the story they were doing, she picked up a stranded mother with an 8 day old baby to get them to the baby’s check-up. That is doing her job beyond the limits, helping people because she wants to. You can tell she does this for the good of people and not for herself because of the fact that she has been doing this for half a century.  Not only does she care to the physical ailments of the residents on Block Island, but their financial ones too. She is the person people go to when they are in the hole. She pays peoples bills, from college tuition to oil bills. Mary Donnelly is a true hero.