Common Themes of The Client, Dragon, and Beowulf

Common Themes of The Client, Dragon, and Beowulf

A woman her late thirties bellowed "My Baby! My Baby!", as her baby

carriage rolled towards the bottom of the great hill. Off in a distance, a

man of around early thirties heard these desperate calls for help. The man

dashed out from his house and immediately followed pursuit of the blue baby

carriage. Within one minutes, he safely reclaimed the carriage and the

baby girl was safely returned to her mother without harm. This is an

example of how the young man is showing traits of heroism, the traits being

courage, intelligence, and strength. He was courageous to help return to

the young woman the baby carriage, intelligent to act quickly and actually

catch up to it, and his strength is shown by his ability to outrun a racing

carriage down a deep hill. Different books use different characters to

display heroism within their characters. Mark Sway of The Client is a

story of a young boy's heroic battle against the Mafia and the FBI. The

story of Dirk Pitt of Dragon is a story of how a older man of the nineteen-

hundredths can overcome evil. Beowulf of the story Beowulf is an example

of how even hundreds of years ago, heroes used the same traits as today.

Heroes of every culture of all ages share courage, intelligence and

strength.

Courage is a prominent feature of all heroes. Within these three

books, each character, Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf, display signs of

Courage. Mark Sway was a courageous boy at his age of 9 years old. Mark

would never quit from continuing with an idea of his if it was for good:

"`We can't let them take the body, Reggie. Think about it. If they get

away with it, it'll never be found.'"1 What this phrase points out, is

that Mark did not want to leave the Mafia men to retrieve the body of the

Senator Boyette, for if they got the body, his efforts to keep quiet about

the whole situation would seem fruitless. Dirk Pitt used courage in order

that he can continue perusing the enemies. Dirk never gives up exposing a

plot of death and trickery of another person. Beowulf displays courage by

fighting off the Troll, the Troll's mother, and the Dragon. Beowulf would

not forfeit a fight with one of those people despite their gruesome