What makes a good hero?

As a writer, we have the opportunity to create characters and when we do we all want to create that character that everyone remembers.Just think of some of your favorite books and you can tell me who the main characters were. But to be able to create that character especially the hero that everyone remembers well that's just magic.

Now, what makes a good hero character? If you look back to the characters that Hemingway wrote about there was a certain attribute that made then very compelling.They played. They played with pain and they played with pain gracefully. This was how it was described in the words of my sixth grade English teacher when we were talking about The Old Man and the Sea. Not a book you would expect to talk about when it came to a good hero character but it was one that stuck in my head for all these years.

The thing is that can still apply to the good Hero characters now. Two examples I can look at are Thomas Hunter from Ted Dekker's Circle Series and Scott Harvath from Brad Thor's Series. These two writers created characters that played through some serious pain and came trough it. That is why I think we remember those character's the best.

But now with the way the world is now are those characters still good heroes? If not then what makes a good hero for  today's time?

Do you agree? Take a look at those characters you remember from the books you read and let me know what you think. Why are they a good Hero character to you?

Thanks for taking the time to read.