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Question: Those who have read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe!?
Hi my assignment in english class is to write a quote about how Okonkwo from T!.F!.A was a tragic hero!. so i was looking for some traig hero quotes online and i could find hardly any!.!. so if you would like to put in a good quote on tragic heros it would be a lot of help -and if you dont want to this is what i found so far which do u think it would ok to show how Okonkwo was a tragic hero and why!?:

1) A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself!.
* Joseph Campbell

2)Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few!.
* Sir Winston Churchill

3)True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason!.
Author: Whitehead
Source: None

4)"Man is not made for defeat!. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated," -Ernest Hemingway

**so far im thinking number 4 !.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
you can search for 'heroism quotes' in the internet

http://www!.worldofquotes!.com/topic/heroi!.!.!.
http://en!.thinkexist!.com/quotations/hero!.!.!.
http://tentmaker!.org/Quotes/heroism_quot!.!.!.

you're off to a good start!.

*okonkwo is a man who is "afraid to show his emotion"!.
*try looking for those related with "dying for something," "courage" and the like!.

hope i kinda helped!. :)
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