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Superman

by Becquer from Lyon, France

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Superman

When I have discovered the subject, I have thought that it was a good idea to take a personality who was active on the humanitarian scene like l'Abbe Pierre or Martin Luther King. But who is the best hero? It's a superhero. And who is the best superhero? It's SUPERMAN. It's why the hero that I have chosen for this subject is Superman.

In this first part, I will explain why I have chosen Superman and not another superhero. Indeed, there are a lot of superheroes who come from America like Spiderman or Batman or Hulk or Wonderwoman and a lot of others. But Superman was the first superhero: he was invented in 1930 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Besides I don't know if you know but we are the year of Superman: at the beginning of the year, all the first-year students had to be disguised as Superman and it was a good recollection. In addition, I think that Superman is the strongest of all the superheroes! YES: I can make a list of all his superpowers which come from the power of the yellow sun whose radiation he absorbs : -the superstrength : he can move a little planet. -the superspeed -the supervision -he can fly more speedy than the rate of sound -the superinvulnerability, the thermovision, the superintelligence, the supermemory... I don't give and explain all his powers because it will be easy to do 400 words. But you can take all the human or superhuman qualities and put the word SUPER before and you have the powers. I think now that you agree with me : Superman is really the best superhero.

In this second part, I will express my personal vision about Superman and why I like this superhero particularly. It's really absurd but he seems to me more human. In fact, it's the only superhero whose face we see. Besides, he isn't recognized for all that he does : he saves the world and nobody knows that it's Clark, this shy reporter of Daily Planet who has difficulties to seduce Lois Lane. Besides, his life wasn't easy: his parents are dead and he is adopted by a family at Smallville. In addition, we like a superhero because he is strong but also because he has a weak spot. For Superman, it's the ''kryptonite'': a fragment from the planet Krypton, where he comes from. It's for this reason that Superman is very estimable.

Finally, I think that I have demonstrated that Superman, the saviour of the widowed and the orphans, is the best of the superheroes. Besides, he should be valued like a hero because even if he is unreal, we need to dream about the perfect man who can save the world and who has difficulties in his real life (like us): we recognize ourselves in Superman. It's why he isn't just a superhero but a hero, my hero of the real life.

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Last edited 4/17/2007 12:00:00 AM

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