Sentence examples for child hero from inspiring English sources
The girl was invited to Turkey, where she was hailed as a child hero.
The child hero of this novel does not remember the historical evil.
It starts out sombre, with the child hero being immured in a sarcophagus.
There was a crushinducing child hero, like Johnny Whitaker in "Sigmund," Jack Wilde in "Pufnstuf" or the adorable Kathy Coleman of "Land of the Lost".
Charlie the Choo-Choo, by one Beryl Evans, makes its first (fictional) appearance in King's Dark Tower fantasy series, when it is spotted in a display of children's books by the story's child hero, Jake.
I don't know if "Beasts" will spawn imitations, since it is such an original and unusual movie, but it does seem to me that Hushpuppy is a great, archetypal character, a new variation on the child hero that has been a staple of the American imagination at least since Huck Finn.
This may explain the most perverse trend to yet emerge in the genre: child heroes.
More than that, it reminds us that child heroes can be brave without being plucky.
Child heroes these days need to be independent and self-empowered.
Like David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and other of the great novelist-qua-social-critic's orphaned and destitute child heroes, Des provides a foil for the low company he keeps.
His child heroes grapple with tyrants who are essentially school bullies writ large; they are rewarded with experiences you have to be dead not to desire.
