Paul Walker Research Paper

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According to Aristotle, any tragedy has a tragic hero who possesses a tragic flaw which ultimately causes their downfall. Despite the tragic hero’s defeat, its purpose is to validate redeeming human qualities to the audience. The literary model of a tragic hero could also be applied to real-life people such as Paul Walker, Walker worked his way up to the elevated status as a Hollywood actor. To begin, Paul Walker was born September 12, 1973, in Glendale, California, to Paul Walker III and Cheryl Walker (Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, Ebsco host, pg1). Before reaching elevated status as a movie star. Walker grew up in the Sunland-Tujunga neighborhood of LA. He loved the ocean at a very young age, he liked surfing and he idolized Jacques Cousteau. …show more content…
Paul Walker achieved high stature as an actor, the first acting job he had was in 1998 a movie called “Meet the Deedles” and he was in many movies after that (Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, Ebsco host, pg3). Paul Walker’s best known for his role in the “Fast & Furious” movies as Brian O’Connor (Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, Ebsco host, pg4). All in all, Walker rose up and became a famous actor. To continue, Paul Walker’s life develops as a Greek tragedy because he possessed the fatal flaw of hubris, his hamartia is that he was driving fast, lost control and hit a tree which killed him. Paul Walker had a good life, was in a lot of famous movies, and had a family he loved. He loved to drive fast cars and tried to bring his movies into his real life. He almost thought he couldn’t crash when driving, almost like he was invincible. He ended up hitting a tree in a charity race on the street and his car blew up with him in it and killed