1. Select any two hero myths from the Leeming text of differing cultural origin, and discuss the significance of each place on family, identity, and origin. How are these three issues reflective of their cultural origins? What parallels are noteworthy regarding values and value systems? Explain. ‘Hero’ is the representative of ordinary humankind in the realm of mythology. I have first looked into a Greek mythology of the heroic story “Herakles” which was known and worshipped also by the Romans. Credits to Walt Disney, he remains one of the most widely recognizable heroes. Herakles was the son of a mortal woman and his success demonstrates ordinary man can also be a hero. Applying the concept from unit 4, Herakles is a great example showing the expected gender norms of a prominent powerful man depiction under Greco-Roman mythological traditions. His adventures serve as one significant component of his heroism that his overt masculinity and charisma have well defined him. As a normative male under this tradition, he possessed numerous wives and consorts and established his identity through individual action prior to marriage, in order words, he values work-ship over family. While on the other hand, there is a striking contrast in value systems when comparing Herakles to the Eastern Myth of the tale of Buddha from India. If we view Buddha as Siddhartha Guatama, the son of Queen Maya, we can consider Buddha as a hero. Apart from his decent identity as a wealthy prince, he was honorable to receive blessings and compliments from the Brahamanas, the highest class of people in the society i.e. priests and claimed him to be the savior of the world. He too, values workship over family, but because of a greater goal to accomplish, and do not possess any consorts nor wives. His mission is to help the poor with a benevolent heart plus does not ask for any returns. The value of his journey is to ennoble the struggles of life. Both of them were considered as heroes as they have earned right for their reputations that their values were affirmed by their achievements and acknowledgement by the crowd. 2. Discuss any hero myth, even one not covered in the Leeming text, represented in graphic novel form. How effective is the medium for communicating these narratives? What advantage does the medium possess? Explain. I have chosen the graphic based bible to answer this topic that to me, Jesus is a true hero. He is, inevitably, the true God, but if we view him as the son of Joseph and Mary from Bethlehem, we may consider him as a mortal-born hero. Like Campbell’s suggestion of the universality of all heroic stories, these ‘monomyth’ share a template that 8 common characteristics can be found across all cultures. The bible has presented heroism in the following orders: First, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the miraculous conception of Virgin Mary and Jesus taking the form of human to arrive on earth, to the hiding of the Jesus from King Herod. Second, parallel to.

1. 1. Select any two hero myths from the Leeming text of differing
cultural origin, and discuss the significance of each place on
family, identity, and origin. How are these three issues
reflective of their cultural origins? What parallels are
noteworthy regarding values and value systems? Explain.
‘Hero’ is the representative of ordinary humankind in the realm
of mythology. I have first looked into a Greek mythology of the
heroic story “Herakles” which was known and worshipped also
by the Romans. Credits to Walt Disney, he remains one of the
most widely recognizable heroes. Herakles was the son of a
mortal woman and his success demonstrates ordinary man can
also be a hero. Applying the concept from unit 4, Herakles is a
great example showing the expected gender norms of a
prominent powerful man depiction under Greco-Roman
mythological traditions. His adventures serve as one significant
component of his heroism that his overt masculinity and
charisma have well defined him. As a normative male under this
tradition, he possessed numerous wives and consorts and
established his identity through individual action prior to
marriage, in order words, he values work-ship over family.
While on the other hand, there is a striking contrast in value
systems when comparing Herakles to the Eastern Myth of the
tale of Buddha from India. If we view Buddha as Siddhartha
Guatama, the son of Queen Maya, we can consider Buddha as a
hero. Apart from his decent identity as a wealthy prince, he was
honorable to receive blessings and compliments from the
Brahamanas, the highest class of people in the society i.e.
priests and claimed him to be the savior of the world. He too,
values workship over family, but because of a greater goal to
accomplish, and do not possess any consorts nor wives. His
mission is to help the poor with a benevolent heart plus does not

2. ask for any returns. The value of his journey is to ennoble the
struggles of life. Both of them were considered as heroes as
they have earned right for their reputations that their values
were affirmed by their achievements and acknowledgement by
the crowd.
2. Discuss any hero myth, even one not covered in the Leeming
text, represented in graphic novel form. How effective is the
medium for communicating these narratives? What advantage
does the medium possess? Explain.
I have chosen the graphic based bible to answer this topic that
to me, Jesus is a true hero. He is, inevitably, the true God, but if
we view him as the son of Joseph and Mary from Bethlehem, we
may consider him as a mortal-born hero. Like Campbell’s
suggestion of the universality of all heroic stories, these
‘monomyth’ share a template that 8 common characteristics can
be found across all cultures. The bible has presented heroism in
the following orders: First, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the
miraculous conception of Virgin Mary and Jesus taking the form
of human to arrive on earth, to the hiding of the Jesus from
King Herod. Second, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the ordinary
childhood of Jesus where he shares work from his mortal father,
a carpenter stopped only when Jesus reached the age of 12
where divine signs of him preaching in the temple started to
appear. Third, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the refusal of
accepting him as acknowledging him as the messiah, savior of
the world, because people think such respected identity would
not belong to one who comes from Galiliee (hometown). Fourth,
parallel to Campbell’s theory: trials and quests continue with
the challenges from Pharisees and Jews. Fifth, parallel to
Campbell’s theory: Jesus’s death symbolizes the sacrifice made
for all mankind and him willingly to become the scapegoat for
us human. Sixth, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the descent to
the underworld and seventh, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the
resurrection and rebirth was shown where Jesus came alive on
the third day. Eighth, parallel to Campbell’s theory: the

3. ascension of Jesus to heaven. All these ‘hero’s experiences’ not
only prove Jesus to be the true hero but also provided lessons to
people of ways to overcome both the internal and external
challenges in life. Depicted with graphics, a stronger and
clearer visuals and connections have been linked to the viewers
that sounder emotions have also been synchronized. Instead of
merely text, the illustrations have reflected the illustrator’s
personal understanding and feelings towards the subject matter,
especially when there is not definite image of Jesus Christ.
3. Select any two hero myths from the Leeming text of differing
cultural origin, and discuss the significance of each place on
family, identity, and origin. How are these three issues
reflective of their cultural origins? What parallels are
noteworthy regarding values and value systems? Explain.
Hero, the main character of in the stories, represents the core of
the message that the author wants to send. The tragedies and the
legends gave us cautions and inspirations. In the Leeming text, I
have selected the King Arthur and the Orpheus and Eurydice.
English like to think the right from the god. Their blue blood is
different than others in the ancient time. The nobles control all
the resource and the people obey them because they believe the
legitimacy of the power is from the chosen by the god. Even
Arthur became a kind from nobody, but he is the bastard of the
old king. On the other hand, Orpheus has talent but cannot
control his emotion. These characteristics gave him power to
see Hades and got a chance to save his lover, but he lost it by
not follow the instructions from Hades. The origin, identity and
the family gave multi background information for the stories. It
also represents the people’s moral and believe in the region and
the period. The family gave King Arthur blood and the noble
theory is believed in that region. The identity gave Orpheus a
chance to fix the issue, but he did not follow the power’s words.
He lost his lover. It is origin from the rule’s mind in the Greece.
4. Discuss any hero myth, even one not covered in the Leeming

4. text, represented in graphic novel form. How effective is the
medium for communicating these narratives? What advantage
does the medium possess? Explain.
Shengnong, he is an emperor in the ancient China. He leads his
group of people from the kingdom to look for something to eat
and heal people. He found wheat, grain, rice etc. for allay for
hunger. He continues to find something to heal people’s illness
and start to try different herbs. He ate hundreds of herbs per day
and wrote a book teach people how to heal their body by
different herbs. Eventually, he ate some poison herbs and have
no time to heal himself. He dead and picked up by the Crane
from the god. It was originated from the ancient Chinese words.
However, people who usually read these myths when they are
very young. Graphic novel will helps young kids to know about
their culture. In this story, it at least send three message other
than the Shengnong. Herbs is the first messages. It can be heal
people, actually, herbs is the most common way to heal people
in China till recent. Food is the most basic food we can find
today and herbs can be poison. The picture form showed the
exact things that exist in our life which can make a strong
connection. The advantage for this medium is expand the
readers for the stories and making Chinese know their root of
culture.
5. Discuss any hero myth, even one not covered in the Leeming
text, represented in graphic novel form. How effective is the
medium for communicating these narratives? What advantage
does the medium possess? Explain.
The “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” is one of the earliest
excellent long historical novels in China. Through vivid
descriptions of the disputes between the three countries, the
book presents a panoramic picture of the political struggles,
military struggles and historical evolution of that particular
period. For hundreds of years, it has been read by generations of

5. the entire nation. It can be said that “The Romance of the Three
Kingdoms” has been deeply rooted in every corner of our
national life.
I still remember when I was young, every time I had different
imaginations while I read it over and over again. I always used
my imagination to integrate into its’ storyline. It seems very
rare that I had the chance to experience the stories that have
been handed down since the 14th century when I was young, as
such a traditional media: novels. I think it worked as functions
of “memory” of human beings passing down by generations.
In the future, people can quote its’ allusions, enhance national
self-confidence, and help archaeologists understand the
psychology and living conditions of the ancients.
In the other hand, the novel has the flexibility of being
exclusive to the text. The stimuli of the picture come from the
audio and visuals, but the stimulation of the text can come from
our five sensations, in a sense, the same as dreaming, so it can
penetrate the human spirit and the mind. There are many novels
once adapted into a movie, it loses its’ taste of the original.
Furthermore, the picture of each “seeing” may be different by
reading at different ages. We are able to use imagination by the
“blur scenes” created by novels, so the classic works are
especially worth reading again and again.
I remember in “Norwegian Forest”, there is a sentence described
Midori’s silence:
“Just like the rain of the world falls on the all the lawns in the
world.”
It delivered the faint, inexplicable feelings can only be
understood yet can not be said which is the unique expression of
the novel.

6. Once it becomes a concrete frame, it loses its beauty.