MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Mr T:
> >Is Dixon a hero? A superhero? A mock hero?
> 
> I see Dixon as a human being who confronts a difficult situation and does
> the best he can do, choosing in the moment to not follow his violent urges.

Yes, Dixon was a human person, but I'm talking not about the world, but
the text. 
Dixon is a character in M&D. Is he heroic? 
Is what he does (confronts the Driver and frees some slaves) heroic? 

Hero/heroic: Of, relating to, or resembling the heroes of literature,
legend, or myth. 

We know that Dixon wants to be Transformed. Is he? Does he experience
heroic transformation. Is this scene with the Driver his transformation
scene? 

Or is he a superhero? Super-Quaker as Robert said. 

Superhero: A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed
with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime.

Mockheroic? 

Mockheroic: A satirical imitation or burlesque of the heroic manner or
style. 

If he is both/and or all three, isn't it possible that Dixon did whip
the Driver, did not whip the driver, placed his fist in the driver's
face but did not whip the driver? 






> >To what extent is Dixon's individual development enhanced by confronting
> >the salve driver?
> 
> I think Dixon sees clearly, with the whip in his hand, that he can either
> perpetuate the kind of violence that repulses him when he sees the
> slave-driver doing it, or that he can choose not to. I see this as a key
> moment in his character development, and in the larger arc of M&D.

Kool. How do we know that Dixon develops after this scene? Are there
signs or anything in the few chapters that remain that show us Dixon
changed. Not that his hair should now be streaked with gray, his voice
deeper, his eyes more clear and larger. 

speaking only of the text now and your personal reading of it, is
Dixon's choice not to perpetuate violence a  heroic act?