QUESTION 3!

Question 3: The character of Peter is a 15 year -old ordinary lower class boy who becomes a heroic figure by the end of the novel. People can be heroes in many ways. Commonly, people choose to lead noble, honourable or risky lives and they become heroes as a result of their choices or training, like peace keepers or firemen. Others are “accidental heroes” where circumstances arise and it is their unexpected responses that make them heroic. What kind of hero is Peter? Or is he one at all? Provide examples from the text and compare Peter to someone from the past or present that you would call a hero.

In the book Cue for Treason, Peter is a hero for sure, more like an accidental hero though! You can also see that Peter is a hero by his personality; Peter is adventurous, independent because he works on his own .Especially when Peter was trying to fix his problems with Sir Philip and Sir Philip’s people after Peter, because Peter threw a rock at Sir Philip. Peter never asked anyone to help him escape his problem fully, meaning he would be an independent young lad. Peter is self confident, and most people would think that is one of the things a person would need to be a hero, because it may not be possible for a specific person to be a hero without being confident. For evidence Peter gained enough confidents to throw a rock at Sir Philip and also to Save Queen Elizabeth from being killed. Peter is, Powerful and has excellent memory. All of these personality types lead on to being a hero.

One day, Peter heard Sir Philip over talking about him planning to kill the Queen. Then on Peter realised he had to tell people and get on the case to save Queen Elizabeth from Sir Philip’s evil plan in killing Queen Elizabeth. From then on Peter was no question a hero, because without Peter being at Sir Philip’s tower over listening to Sir Philips conversation, Queen Elizabeth would be LONG GONE.

I could also compare Peter to Jake Sully in Avatar when he told all the avatars that people were coming to kill them, and that they needed to group up and save everyone. In this case Peter is “Jake Sully” telling people from the theatre that people are coming to kill Queen Elizabeth and that they need to save her. In the end Peter is a hero !!!!!