"The God Tempered Hero" is a dramatic monologue suitable for presentation at High School Speech Competitions. This monologue tells the story of an introverted, educated man who must make a statement to the media describing how he came to perform an heroic act - rescuing a woman from a flooding river. The man is a metallurgist who has spent his life thinking about how atomic elements can be combined to make strong steel. Because he is not a trained...