2/23 RESPONSE

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?