Bonsoir pouvez vous maider à reformuler ça un peu autrement et plus court merci le sujet " Document A: “The danger is that we have come to admire celebrities more
than real heroes.” (line 18)
To what extent do you agree with this statement? (300 words +/- 10%)



Ma proposition :
In the first document, the journalist states that “The danger is that we have
come to admire celebrities more than real heroes.” Indeed, his article deals with
his passion and admiration for Muhammed Ali as he was a young kid. He was in
awe and worshipping a celebrity who quickly became a genuine hero to him.
Now, he has some insight and has seen celebrities acting in an awful way. He
gives, for instance, the example of an unfaithful Tiger Woods. That way, the
statement above can be agreed with, as long as we do not consider celebrities as
heroes anymore. In fact, celebrities can be perceived as role models as all their
actions are reported in the media. Besides, it is absolutely easy to feel a
connection to them, as the journalist explains. Nonetheless, it can be argued that
most of their actions do not fit what is acceptable, and that their job should be
limited to playing basketball, singing or dancing. Being a role model is absolutely
not what they wish, as Charles Barkley underlines it: “a million guys can dunk a
basketball in jail; should they be role models?”
The general message might be that we should be interested in people around
us, really close to us, in order to notice that some of them are real heroes.
Indeed, we cannot notice that if we keep on believing in a connection to only a
handful of celebrities, and not to the most common of our neighbors. The text
could eventually represent an invitation to have a second look at our own normal
lives and to stop being focused on so-called heroes.