I need a hero!

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I'm sort of inspired today by something that came up yesterday in class, which was the idea of heroes.  In an action film, there's always a hero, right?  And what makes this Sherlock Holmes different is that it is an action film, with Holmes as the hero.  Like I said before, I never thought of him that way, but, as you can see from the picture here, he seems to have always been a hands-on kind of detective without my realizing it.  My dad says that I don't know the stories very well, or I would know that Holmes fights and uses disguises.  (Thanks, Dad.  Actually, I think he may turn out to be a lot of help.)  I think that I may have a research question:  is Sherlock Holmes an action hero?

Dr. Toffee says that in an academic research project, you always wind up researching several things (she calls them components), and I guess she's right, because I can already see that I need to know about Holmes, heroes (specifically action heroes), and I'll  probably have to read some of the stories, too.  I got lucky there; my dad has all the stories plus a bunch of books about SH, which means I won't have to wait for interlibrary loans on them.

So I guess the next thing I need to do is look for background stuff, but I think I'll talk to Dr. Toffee during her office hours and see what she says.  I'll start checking out the short stories today and tomorrow.