Heros From the time we were little when our parents read us fairy tales and we spent our days watching “Thundercats”, to today when we watch action movies and read romance novels we all have been introduced to many heroes. We all know the type that saves the girl or kills the bad guy. But within mythology there are many more different types of heroes. First there is the hero that wants to help their community and to remember. In the story “Chi Li Slays the Serpent”, Chi Li volunteers herself to the serpent because she thinks that it will help her family. “And since my life can do nothing for you, I would like my death to improve your lives in some way” (Chi Li 332). What makes Chi Li so extraordinary is that in the Chinese culture women were looked upon as expendable and not as important. “Chi Li is unusual in that she is a female hero; moreover, she is unusual among other heroines” (Rosenb....

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