This weeks vogler reading was only about to main parts of the heroes journey. It focused on The Ordinary World and The Call to Adventure. These two parts of the heroes story were very important because they help most stories roll into there adventures. The Ordinary World is wheere the hero starts off and where the hero feels the most comfortable. In most stories the hero starts here in many different ways. SOme stories the hero is just an opening imagine and in some there is a prologue before it begins. The call to adventure is another attachment to the ordinary world because this is what gets the character out of the ordinary world and allows the heros journey to begin. The call to adventure can come in many ways. Usually they come from heralds and sometimes they even come nfrom the hero not having any choice at all.
As i was reading these two sections i seen these to parts of a heroes journey as apart of situations in my life. and one major situation i had to figure out if i wanted to transfer my last year of high school. I was always in the ordinary world of public school. It was prodminatly black and spanish and there were not many whites. This school wasnt your typical GOOD school. I had a call to adventure to change to a private christain school when a teacher actually seen my grades and wanted to take me out of this bad environment. I took this call and ended up being the minority in this predomintly whtie school . there were only 4 black males including me in my senior class out of 150.
Also i think these readings reflect to some class situations and assignments. I have never been in a real writing class. my ordinary world in comfort zone was always like a reading or english class. It was never all about writing and the call to adventure was being a communications major. In the movie that we watched in class about the women i think that they were out of there ordinary world once the men left for war. They started to be a bit rebellious , showing that they could smoke and do things that men could do. although thier ordinary world was given to them by a system they came out of it in order to be seen as equal.
1. What is a situation that you have came out of your ordinary world?
2. Can a story exist without some kind of call to adventure?
3. What is an ideal place for the call?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
STRENGTH AND WEAKNESSES
STRENGTH
-Using parts of the heroes journey chart.
-Explaining in detail what happens.
Using parts of the hero's journey made my paper structured and turned it into an actually story and explaining in detail makes the reader understand the story a lot clearer.
WEAKNESS
-Story is all over the place and jumps from situation to situation.
-I could of expanded on my ideas.
It seemed like i jumped around with my story fairly quick which throws the reader off. I also could have expanded on ideas and cut out some of the ideas that were not important. In order to make this better im going to have to get rid of some of the less important parts of the story and further expand on the parts of the story that i find to interest the reader.
-Using parts of the heroes journey chart.
-Explaining in detail what happens.
Using parts of the hero's journey made my paper structured and turned it into an actually story and explaining in detail makes the reader understand the story a lot clearer.
WEAKNESS
-Story is all over the place and jumps from situation to situation.
-I could of expanded on my ideas.
It seemed like i jumped around with my story fairly quick which throws the reader off. I also could have expanded on ideas and cut out some of the ideas that were not important. In order to make this better im going to have to get rid of some of the less important parts of the story and further expand on the parts of the story that i find to interest the reader.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
2/15 RESPONSE
This weeks reading continued to describe more of the archetypes that were found in a hero's journey. It explained that a threshold guardian was a archetype that held the hero in the story from moving forward. They usually tested the heroes. Threshold guardians were either enemies of the hero or they are allies which the hero decides to make them. Next was a herald which always brought a message to a hero to show a change that was about to occur in the story. One of the most hard acrchetypes to distinguish was the shape shifter which was found in many romantic stories. they can be either people or ideas who change to extremes in the story. Further on in the reading vogler explained the shadow, which was deep secrets that are brought to light in a story. these are usually built up inside of the hero and may hold them back or actually may make a hero stronger. The last three were allies, tricksters and sidekicks. Allies in sidekicks can basically be in the same category. they both stay on the heroes side trying to make them succeed. The trickster is thrown in the mix of a story for comic relief.
This reading had shown a lot of keys points that could relate to my life. When i started to read the chapters these archetypes became so familiar. As i been living i have had many threshold guardians which have brought challenges to my school, basketball and social life. some became allies and some i had to handle in some kind of conflict. i over came most of them. Also Ive had a herald come to me and bring me a message that would change my life, like when i was accepted into college. i have also came across many shape shifters which have gave me some problem. these consisted of girlfriends, friends, and people that i have met throughout my life. There have been many shady characters that were out for me and gave me problems.I have also had allies and sidekicks since i was young. they have always been there for my well being and are still a big part of my life today. those are my real friends that i know have my back.
Voglers reading have shown me many things that connect to our writing class. I think that as students we have threshold guardians that come from actually finishing are homework and reading what is assigned in class. sometimes we get lazy and outside sources prevent us from focusing but we still have to find a way to get through it or we will fail. Also i think that in class as students we have became allies to each other. as we discuss the assigned reading we try to help each other further understand what the author is explaining in their texts. we are discussing in order to make the student next to you succeed. We also have a few tricksters in class who provide comic relief because sometimes class can get a bit to serious.
1. Of all the archetypes that we have read about which archetype shows up the most in today's world wars.
2. What was your worst threshold guardian in your life?
3. Who or what was your most important herald in life?
4. How can any of these archetypes connect to our class as a whole.
This reading had shown a lot of keys points that could relate to my life. When i started to read the chapters these archetypes became so familiar. As i been living i have had many threshold guardians which have brought challenges to my school, basketball and social life. some became allies and some i had to handle in some kind of conflict. i over came most of them. Also Ive had a herald come to me and bring me a message that would change my life, like when i was accepted into college. i have also came across many shape shifters which have gave me some problem. these consisted of girlfriends, friends, and people that i have met throughout my life. There have been many shady characters that were out for me and gave me problems.I have also had allies and sidekicks since i was young. they have always been there for my well being and are still a big part of my life today. those are my real friends that i know have my back.
Voglers reading have shown me many things that connect to our writing class. I think that as students we have threshold guardians that come from actually finishing are homework and reading what is assigned in class. sometimes we get lazy and outside sources prevent us from focusing but we still have to find a way to get through it or we will fail. Also i think that in class as students we have became allies to each other. as we discuss the assigned reading we try to help each other further understand what the author is explaining in their texts. we are discussing in order to make the student next to you succeed. We also have a few tricksters in class who provide comic relief because sometimes class can get a bit to serious.
1. Of all the archetypes that we have read about which archetype shows up the most in today's world wars.
2. What was your worst threshold guardian in your life?
3. Who or what was your most important herald in life?
4. How can any of these archetypes connect to our class as a whole.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
2/8 vOgLeR
In the pages that we have read this week Vogler has started to actually go into the types of characters that appear in many of the hero's journeys. He started off by opening with a chapter called archetypes. This explained how there are many recurring characters that run around in a hero's journey. The next chapter was about the an actually archetype of a hero. It showed many different types of heroes such as a tragic hero and a catalyst hero.This chapter also showed the dramatic functions of a hero which were functions that helped stories become hero stories. Last but not least they showed the archetype of a mentor. This showed the different types of mentors.
As i read these chapters i thought about the different types of archetypes in my life. It was so easy to see how people came up with these archetypes because they were apart of everyday life. Even in ancient times they were there because these ideas obviously came from back then. In my life there have been many recurring archetypes such as mentors. Over and over i have had father figures like my real father, basketball coaches, track coaches, teachers, peers, cousins, uncles, grandparents and even people that i meet on the street. All of these people have put there in put in my life to give me a positive outlook On things. these people have been there for me when i needed that extra push. I have also had many heroes in my life, people i look up too. These heroes have had similar dramatic functions that helped them with their life stories. and that is why i admired them in their hardships.
In class we have many different archetypes sitting around in our circle. First of all the most important one would be my teacher. She is the mentor to all of the students thats she teaches. In Vogler's reading it showed that these mentors are wise women, which she is. Mentors give knowledge to the heroes that the are teaching so they can move forward in their lives and succeed. That is exactly what are teacher is doing in class everyday. She is giving us the gift and tools of learning in order for us to succeed in her class. IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!
1. Can you think of a story that doesn't have a hero or a mentor? Explain why.
2. What archetypes live in your life?
3. How can a hero be an anti-hero? aren't all heroes supposed to be good?
As i read these chapters i thought about the different types of archetypes in my life. It was so easy to see how people came up with these archetypes because they were apart of everyday life. Even in ancient times they were there because these ideas obviously came from back then. In my life there have been many recurring archetypes such as mentors. Over and over i have had father figures like my real father, basketball coaches, track coaches, teachers, peers, cousins, uncles, grandparents and even people that i meet on the street. All of these people have put there in put in my life to give me a positive outlook On things. these people have been there for me when i needed that extra push. I have also had many heroes in my life, people i look up too. These heroes have had similar dramatic functions that helped them with their life stories. and that is why i admired them in their hardships.
In class we have many different archetypes sitting around in our circle. First of all the most important one would be my teacher. She is the mentor to all of the students thats she teaches. In Vogler's reading it showed that these mentors are wise women, which she is. Mentors give knowledge to the heroes that the are teaching so they can move forward in their lives and succeed. That is exactly what are teacher is doing in class everyday. She is giving us the gift and tools of learning in order for us to succeed in her class. IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!
1. Can you think of a story that doesn't have a hero or a mentor? Explain why.
2. What archetypes live in your life?
3. How can a hero be an anti-hero? aren't all heroes supposed to be good?
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