Heroes

In 1984 Winston and Julia are arrested and are soon later in the Ministry of Love where they are tortured due to committing thought crime. Julia and Winston are forced to tell what they know to the party members that work there. While Winston is thinking about if O’Brien will send him the razor blade there is a knocking at Winston’s cell door and Winston can hear the footsteps approach and O’Brien enters. Winston is soon to realize that O’Brien is the person behind his torment. While Winston is on the floor due to a hit to Winston’s elbow there is a quote and it says “In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes” What does this quote mean today, and how does this describe the “heroes” today?
This quote means that when we are in immense pain, that is so deep that no one can save that person in pain. In the world today being a hero means to save everyone that is in trouble no matter what the cost. But what if the hero saved someone but that person was in so much pain that the hero couldn’t do that for them. They couldn’t save that person from how they are feeling deep inside. Look at Winston in this book, no one tried to save Winston. Winston was being beaten and scared to death that he did things that he might regret later on or not care about at all.
Now in our current world there are many heroes who just popped up. A couple of weeks ago the east coast had a Hurricane that later turned into a Superstorm. That storm  was called “Hurricane Sandy”. This storm ruined homes, killed people, and left some lost in the east coasts which consisted of New York, New Jersey and other places. Many heroes popped out like firefighters  and paramedics and sometimes ordinary people who have the heart to do what they think is right. Even though these people aren’t superheroes like Superman they can save other people’s lives just by trying their best.
Winston didn’t get any help when he was in the Ministry of Love when he was getting tortured to death. In Winston’s time there weren’t that many heroes to fly in and save him or other people. It was more like finding it the way out alone. Now, with the people from Hurricane Sandy are safe those people still probably in pain from lost loved ones or that tragic experience happened to them and if they will ever recover. But heroes do exist, they just have to be found
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/the-heroes-of-hurricane-sandy_n_2044253.html