6/28/2023 0 Comments Fortune Calling by Hunter S. Jones![]() ![]() ![]() These heroes may be entirely mythical: We think of the Homeric epics, which tell the story of Odysseus, who overcomes many trials in his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War of Lohengrin, the German knight who rescues a noblewoman of Robin Hood, who for the English embodies ideals of justice and resistance to corrupt government of William Tell, the Swiss hero who killed a tyrant. There is only one fictional character who embodies the American spirit in its essence and its entirety, and who is real enough that it seems he should have existed: Indiana Jones, the swashbuckling American archaeologist.Ī people, a civilization defines itself largely through the heroes that it adopts and celebrates. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |