For a social studies class, Gladiator is a quite a goldmine. As a result, Hugo is very different from those around him. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with himself. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. For example, Hugo kills a bully at school with his superhuman strength, branding him an outsider for the rest of his life. Hugo Danner, the protagonist of a single novel, struggles mightily to find a purpose for his power and never succeeds, or at least never manages to live up to the Olympian standard he sets for himself.
Other books in this series. They have entertained us on Saturday morning television. He investigates various belief systems in turn, capitalism, communism, libertarianism, even eugenics, and rejects them all. Before Superman there was Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, fighting injustice from his 86th floor command-post and his fortress at the top of the world. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Refresh and try again. Iron Munroe is the son of Hugo Danner, who had faked his death and later returned to Colorado and became a parent. Inthe music world saw amazing reissues spanning rock titans to indie upstarts and electronic to pop of all stripes. Ward was free to go home to June, Wally and the Beaver. The rest of the novel follows Hugo as he grows older, wandering through school, college, employment, and war.
He asks God for advice, and is struck dead by a bolt of lightning. Hugo dragged the man who lay on the floor to a window that gave on a grated pit. Reading it today, after seventy-five years of Superman and fifty years of Spider-Man, it is hard to shake the sense that this novel is a recent invention, written intentionally as a superhero novel. In his civilian life back in America, the one time that Danner would have been fully justified in cutting loose and dismembering his foes, following his torture at the hands of corrupt police after he has freed a man trapped in a bank vault, he manages to retain control, limiting himself to an intimidating display of his abilities.
You must never lose it. He caught hold of the two handles, fidgeted with his elbows, drew a deep breath, and pulled. If, as some have argued, the superhero story is a modern myth and the comicbook a kind of sacred text for a secular-age, then Gladiator is the urtext from which everything was borrowed. Nelson, one of the gladiatorr sprinters Webster College had had for years, dashed forward. There is plenty of Superman in these pages, of course. Professor Abednego Danner lives in a small, rural Colorado town, and has a somewhat unhappy marriage to a conservative religious woman.
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