This weeks Vogler reading was very interesting and it continues with the hero's journey. There were many parts of the reading that seemed like key points but the two sections were mainly on The Refusal To The Call and Meeting the Mentor. In the refusal to the call section it explained how hero's recieve the call to adventure but deny it. They can deny it more then once but this shows that the hero is reluctant to tak the call because the hero is aware of the unknown that lies ahead of them. The second section of the reading is about meeting the mentor. This section explains that once the the hero refuses a mentor can give them all of the skills, weapons, and knowledge they need in order to conquer th unknown. The mentor serves as somewhat of a herald (which is an archetype that brings a message to the hero to kick off the adventure).
The way i reacted to this reading was very interesting. As i read the sections i basically added my life to all of the situations that were going on. In my life i have refused many calls. One major one i can remeber is the story i used for my paper in Persuasive writing. I refused a call to run track because i thought i would look like a nerd. When i read the section of the refusal i could almost see myself as a hero refusing the unknown; in my case known cuz i didnt want to look like a fool. Furthermore, i met my mentor which was my track coach. he taught me the ropes and showed me techniques i would need in order to succeed in my adventure of running track.
The reading also reflected many things that i see in class discussions and the class as a whole. In class we always get assignments that we dont like to do because it takes up some of the time that we need to have fun. Alot of students will refuse the call to adventure or not do there work because they know its not going to be fun. This is why students have mentors or teachers. The teachers will enforce knowledge into you showing you that if you do not do work you will automatically fail, thus not get credit in college, thus waste your parents money, thus get beat. lol. But this example is shown in many stories such as the wiazrd of oz and evan all mighty . In both stories charcters refuse to take the call. They also run into mentors that help them succeed in what they are set out to do.
1. Think of three movies where there are mentors. Now expand on how they help the hero succeed.
2. Have you ever refused a call to adventure? If so what ?
3.Who is the mentor in your life?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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?
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?
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?
Saturday, January 31, 2009
CHARACTER(SPIDER-MAN)
Ive seen many heros and the one im most like is Spiderman. The main reasons are because he is caring, strong, and still can fight when he needs too. First of all spiderman was caring and used to run around saving citizens and fighting off evil guys. I think i do the same the same thing but i dont actually look for people to save. When i do see someone in trouble or in need of assistance, i help. Another thing is he is very strong! He lifts cars and punches through walls to ward of evil doers. I mean i cant do none of that but i do go to the weight room to get BUFF so i can handle the guys on the basketball floor. Last but not least he fights the opposition because they are always doing the wrong things. i am the same way. Well i dont actually go around looking for fights but if i feel like something is very wrong i will dish out a BUTT whipping. lol. Well me and spidey are pretty similar and its pretty obvious to see that we are one in the same.
2/2 monday response
The practical guide was a great way to start off the reading. It talked about Joseph Campbell and his book The Hero with a thousand Faces. In this book his ideas are about the main points of heros in an adventure. The practical guide explains that a heros journey has traditional points that are used in almost every hero story. He uses many examples such as star wars and beverly hills cop. There are twelve main points which are consistant throughout all of the stories and movies that are popular in todays culture. The book explains each of the twelve of the parts and shows its importance.
Many of the key points related to my life. When i went off to college i encountered many of the twelve parts of a heros journey. At first i started in my ORDINARY WORLD, which most heros start in. This was me being at home. Then i was CALLED TO MY ADVENTURE, which was around the time school was beginning. I REFUSED THE CALL but after meeting with MY MENTOR aka parents i was ready to CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD. This was very difficult for such a hero like me because by the time this was happening i had to start a whole new life in my new dorm. I had to go through TESTS and meet new ALLIES and even ENEMIES. So this points definitly find a way to correlate with my life.
Reading this book helped me see that this can connect to the first week of class. Although we didnt have many disscussions i can see that some of the points in a heros journey reflect my encounters with people and my professor in class. I had to meet new allies jus like a hero would do after they crossed thier first threshold. Meeting K. Robinson also made me realize that i have found a mentor that i can talk to if i needed help with writing. I actually hit an inmost cave just like a hero. I was going to drop the class for an easier one but by goin in i faced my fear and realized i had a professor that was willing to work with her students.
1. Do all hero stories have at least 10 0f the 12 points in thier journeys?
2.Can a hero story be made without these key points?
3.Are all hero stories basically the same pattern of events?
Many of the key points related to my life. When i went off to college i encountered many of the twelve parts of a heros journey. At first i started in my ORDINARY WORLD, which most heros start in. This was me being at home. Then i was CALLED TO MY ADVENTURE, which was around the time school was beginning. I REFUSED THE CALL but after meeting with MY MENTOR aka parents i was ready to CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD. This was very difficult for such a hero like me because by the time this was happening i had to start a whole new life in my new dorm. I had to go through TESTS and meet new ALLIES and even ENEMIES. So this points definitly find a way to correlate with my life.
Reading this book helped me see that this can connect to the first week of class. Although we didnt have many disscussions i can see that some of the points in a heros journey reflect my encounters with people and my professor in class. I had to meet new allies jus like a hero would do after they crossed thier first threshold. Meeting K. Robinson also made me realize that i have found a mentor that i can talk to if i needed help with writing. I actually hit an inmost cave just like a hero. I was going to drop the class for an easier one but by goin in i faced my fear and realized i had a professor that was willing to work with her students.
1. Do all hero stories have at least 10 0f the 12 points in thier journeys?
2.Can a hero story be made without these key points?
3.Are all hero stories basically the same pattern of events?
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