Who is your favorite “anti-hero” alive?
29th September 2005
Please help my daughterme to help my daughter do her homework. She is supposed to write a paragraph on someone she considers to be an anti-hero. According to this web-site, an anti hero (in literature) “is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws traditionally assigned to villains or un-heroic people, but nonetheless also has enough heroic qualities, intentions, or type of strength to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers.”
In my daughter’s case, she has to find someone who is an example of a living anti-hero. We talked a little about it, and I gave her some suggestions of those I think manifests the qualities of an anti-hero in real-life. She didn’t like my examples (Bush, Jessica Simpson) and she thought of others of her own (Lindsay Luhan and someone else that I forget), but in the end she thinks she might write on Oprah. But she is not very happy with that choice either.
Do you have any suggestions? Let us hear them (even if it might be too late for my daughter’s assignment, I’d still like to hear what you think).
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