Is Jason Taylor a Hero?

Jason Taylor can be considered a hero in the book "Black Swan Green" for many reasons and interactions he has been apart of. A hero is a selfless, caring, and helpful person who tries to help people when they want help, not when they need it. Throughout the book Jason has shown countless ways of his heroism, such as the point where he breaks neil's calculater just to get the deans attention to "grass" oh him and the other bullies helping all the kids who can't fend for themselves. Another example of Jason's heroism is when he tried helping the gypsies, Jason was on of the only people who would hear them out and try to understand them as he did this he would also fend for them saying they arent as bad as people say they are.

Blog #11 Maggot

Invthe book "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell he has named one of the chapters "Maggot" like the alternate persona of the main character know as Jason Taylor. The reasoning of the word maggot is like the way they use maggot in the army to present you as a lesser person to show you that you're just a mere parasite in the world of giants. These events has made Jason feel succesfully small, uncapable of anything almost helpless in the fact that he cant even save or protect him self from the things that are happening. The more Jason had tried to fit in in the last chapters had hurt him much more that help him, before he wasnt a nobody he he a decent spot where people saw him as average to where he is now, the losers of his school are even making fun of him. These actions have been crumbeling his selfesteme to the point of you being able to ask if it even there anymore. Yet he still learns from these mistakes and comes back from it hopping to achieve the final goal of leaving the small village and never coming back for as long as he could leave for.