1. How do we define the personality traits of a hero?
Kind
Determined
Strong
Compassionate
Powerful
Smart

2. How do the setting, conflicts, and antagonists influence the development of literary heroes?
Setting: Farmers know how to grow crops. Knights know how to fight.
For example if your hero grows up on a farm he knows about land and what grows in what kinds of soil. For example if your hero lives in a city they know rush hour traffic is terrible.
Conflicts: Help the character grow. Improve and become a hero.
Examples: family fights
No job, No college, set backs in career, no friends no family, death, plane crashing on random island. The character has to get through it so they can grow and become a hero.
Antagonists: Learn lessons from them, teach them. Examples: Drama queen girls in school, power hoarders.

3. How does a hero reflect his/her particular culture and society?
When the heroes grow up with the culture of their family then most will continue to show off their culture throughout their life through clothing, songs, writing, and personality traits.

4. How does a hero represent his/her time period and geographical area?
Edison represents the speed up of advancement in the technological world.

5. How do various cultures reward or recognize their heroes?
Naming days after them like Martin Luther King Jr.
Awarding metals like the Nobel Prize
Parades like the Veterans Day Parade

6. What decisions did Thomas Edison make to influence his appearance as a hero?
Invented things, like telegraph, phonograph, and moving picture (which he called his most stupid invention)
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7. What things influenced him to begin his career?
May be unreliable but here goes : Thomas Edison was from the small town of Milan Ohio. He had a hearing problem and quit school at a young age. He sold candy and newspapers on the railroad line. While doing this he set up a small lab for electrical experiments in a baggage car. So, this is where he started his career. In 1868 he moved to Boston and became a full time inventor in the workshop of Charles Williams which catered to inventors. Williams had the facilities and skilled workmen needed to put ideas into practice. In 1869 he moved to New York and from there to Menlo Park, New Jersey in 1876 where he stayed.
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8. What decisions did he make early on and how did they affect his future outcomes?
Schooling
Friends
Family
Jobs

9. How did his acquaintances persuade him to be at the position he ended up in, in the end?
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10. What was Thomas Edison's childhood like?
Thomas A. Edison's forebears lived in New Jersey until their loyalty to the British crown during the American Revolution drove them to Nova Scotia, Canada. From there, later generations relocated to Ontario and fought the Americans in the War of Edison's mother, Nancy Elliott, was originally from New York until her family moved to Vienna, Canada, where she met Sam Edison, Jr., whom she later married. When Sam became involved in an unsuccessful insurrection in Ontario in the 1830s, he was forced to flee to the United States and in 1839 they made their home in Milan, Ohio.
Thomas Alva Edison was born to Sam and Nancy on February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. Known as "Al" in his youth, Edison was the youngest of seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Edison tended to be in poor health when young.
To seek a better fortune, Sam Edison moved the family to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1854, where he worked in the lumber business.
Edison was a poor student. When a schoolmaster called Edison "addled," his furious mother took him out of the school and proceeded to teach him at home. Edison said many years later, "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some one to live for, some one I must not disappoint."(1) At an early age, he showed a fascination for mechanical things and for chemical experiments.
In 1859, Edison took a job selling newspapers and candy on the Grand Trunk Railroad to Detroit. In the baggage car, he set up a laboratory for his chemistry experiments and a printing press, where he started the Grand Trunk Herald, the first newspaper published on a train. An accidental fire forced him to stop his experiments on board.
Around the age of twelve, Edison lost almost all his hearing. There are several theories as to what caused his hearing loss. Some attribute it to the aftereffects of scarlet fever which he had as a child. Others blame it on a conductor boxing his ears after Edison caused a fire in the baggage car, an incident which Edison claimed never happened. Edison himself blamed it on an incident in which he was grabbed by his ears and lifted to a train. He did not let his disability discourage him, however, and often treated it as an asset, since it made it easier for him to concentrate on his experiments and research. Undoubtedly, though, his deafness made him more solitary and shy in dealings with others.