Kole Devisscher had always had a good heart, and he proved this by putting his fear behind him to save a boy. It was the winter of 2011, when Kole was driving next to the Red River in Winnipeg, Manitoba saw a blue jacket in the icy waters. He stopped to find a someone boy struggling to get out of the water. He didn’t even have to think about it; he was going to save that boy. He saved the boy by hauling him up from his truck’s tow strap. He was a true hero because he put the boy’s safety before his safety. “I hope someone else would do that for me if I was in the same situation" (Teens and Heroism 2). He wanted to make this world a better place, because he knew if he could show people that anyone could be a hero, people would have enough courage…show more content… Like sweet and salty, bad and good, fun and boring… But with heroism, the complete opposite of a hero is a bystander. Someone who does nothing in a time of crisis. Someone who may stand by and watch, instead of trying to help the person or get help for them. And though sometimes the person isn’t a bad person and is just a little scared to stand up and go and help. But a hero is someone special, someone who sometimes doesn’t even think before jumping up to go help. An example that I would use to describe this situation is “The Man in the Well”. A group of children hear a man trapped in a well, but they decide not to go and get help. They mislead him into thinking that help was coming, even though it wasn’t. This would be the worst type of a bystander. Someone who has no need to be scared, but still doesn’t do anything about it. “He must've known we were children, because he immediately struggled us to go get a ladder, get help. At first afraid to disobey the voice from the man in the well, we turned around and actually began to walk toward the nearest house, which was Arthur's. But along the way, we slowed down, and then we stopped”(Sher, 1). In this situation, the children didn’t need to stop. In Fact, they had no other reason to stop other than the fact that they plainly didn’t want to. There can be two types of bystanders. One being the scared little kid on the playground, to afraid to tell anyone about the bully. And the second one being the kids from “The Man in the Well”. It is actually a bad thing to do if someone just don’t stand up to something just because someone don’t want to. But even so, we know that at the end, there is going to be that one person who will just stand up, and not be the
