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In the book Flags of our fathers by James Bradley the theme is heroism is extracting the pain from one person for the good of many. This theme relates to history when the leaders of the civil rights movement took it upon themselves to be the first to endure the hardships of the African American oppression. The role of perspective in Flags of our fathers is personal because the narrator is telling the story of each character and what they went through.

Being a real hero is taking the pain upon yourself so others don't have to experience the same thing. This is shown when Doc is shot in both legs and the foot and is still taking care of other soldier's when he needs medical attention as well. When Ira,Franklin,Jack, Harlon, Mike, and Rene climbed to the top of the volcano in Japan and planted the first American flag on Japanese soil. This is important because they went through danger and as a team and shot down the Japanese snipers. Lastly this theme is shown with all of the soldiers who fought during World War II. All of these soldiers who fought in the war had to push through their own dead while fighting the enemy on the D-Day beaches. The significance of the theme in this book is to show that being a hero takes a lot out of a person and causes a lot of pain on the inside that most people don't see.

The civil rights movement was banning racial discrimination of African Americans and giving them their rightful place in the southern states. The theme is shown first when Rosa Parks doesn't move to the back of the bus when a white man tells her to. This is shown again when Martin Luther King Jr. goes out into the public and rallies them together by his motto "Judge me by the content of my character, not the color of my skin." The third person who shows this is Brown vs the board of education. It was where he went against the board and fought for the consolidation of blacks and whites going to school all together. This theme is important because he stood up for what the kids couldn't say. These three people took the initiative and stood up for the untouched issues they knew would cause them pain and heartache, so that their peers didn't have to endure the same things they went through.

You know someone is a real hero when they don't believe that they are a hero, because their experiences caused them so much pain and suffering and don't see how they could help others. The civil rights movement was important so that all African Americans could have all the freedom they have today and not be segregated as they once were. The role of perspective in this theme is personal because you see the individual stories of each character and how the trials and tribulations they went through strongly affected their lives. We all have heroes in our lives but we don't realize the pain and the suffering that our heroes went through to become who they are.