Downworlder Hero's Journey

What images come to mind as you reflect on your childhood? Playgrounds, blackboards, and soccer balls may be among the warmest of memories. Yet for many mermaids swim their thoughts, princesses get swept of their feet, and lions roar to their loyal place in the animal kingdom. There is no doubt that today’s entertainment has most of its touch using classical influences. Walt Disney has produced animated films that have captured the heart and imagination of audiences of all ages around the world through the magic of storytelling and imagery. Many of us appreciate the imagination and magic that Disney puts into its animations with out knowing they are based off of classical and traditional storylines

The malevolent personification of darkness creates the sense that it -symbolising her father, and perhaps the rapist- wants to hurt, cause fear and distress, and is a genuine danger to her.

In 2014, I attended the Hero's journey summer program in hope to discover myself and to become a better man. My father who has attended the program many of times introduced me to the foundation and thought I should give it a try under the Young Men’s program with 8 other teens from around the world. Nervous but also excited about discovering who I truly was and what brotherhood really meant I found myself becoming the best of friends with these guys for 7 days. During the trip I learned that in relationships it is not only about how much you have in common, but that you trust each other and can work together as one. I could not tell you those guys last name or their favorite video game but I can tell you that I knew they had my back no matter what.

Huckleberry Finn is on a quest to see who he really is and while doing so he completely ignores society's beliefs. This quest is often referred to as the Hero’s journey, in this quest the hero will run into many conflicts and when he/she is finished they will be humbled. The quest in divided into 10 parts but the 3 main ones are the call, transformation and the return of the hero. Within each stage there are steps the hero will go through and change from who he is to who he needs to become.

In "The Hero And The God" we follow a character named Bhudda who leaves his very comfortable life for a difficult journey, and is rewarded with the title "Teacher of God and Men".An in "the myth of ORPHEUS and EURYDICE" a half mortal, half immortal man named Orpheus who can sing very beautifully. The problem arises when his wife Eurydice dies the day of their wedding when a vapor bites her. He is determined to get her back, and so he makes a journey to the underworld, in which he succeeds and woos Hades and Persephone with his magical voice. His only request is Eurydice, whom is granted only if he leaves with her trailing behind, but never looking back until he is out of the underworld. When he leaves he turns to Eurydice going back with the

In Equestria where one young human male named James was able to be himself and truly felt as though he belonged after such a long journey this is his story.

The Stages of The Hero's Journey and What Can be Learned From it In 1987, Joseph Campbell created a narrative called the hero's journey which explains the stages that every person goes through multiple times in their life. Three examples of this is Meg from a Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle, Jerry from Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Anna from The Others directed by Alejandro Amenabar. All three of them have learned about themselves, others or the world around them from their successful or unsuccessful navigation of Maggie in the approach to the inmost cave, Jerry in the reward and Anna in the road back. First, Meg (the main character) from a Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle will navigate and learn from the stage

I got surprised to see that there were several explorers in history. I was going to pass up on Columbus, Lewis & Clark, Coronado, De Soto, Jacques, Samuel Champlain, John Cabot, John Fremont and Jedediah Smith. My name is Jedediah Smith, and I am what is known as a Mountain Man. My greatest accomplishment was finding the Great Salt Lake., and found a route from there to Los Angeles in California. I traversed all of the Rockies, across the deserts to California, and back. I used to be held in San Diego on suspicion of being a spy. I traversed the Mojave Desert, and was attacked by Indians losing several men. Was my traveling important? Yes, because without me, there would have been a lot more dead travelers than there were in the end. I

The next step that lies on the hero’s path is the “Road of Trials”. “Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials. […] The hero is covertly aided by the advice, amulets, and secret agents of the supernatural helper whom he met before his entrance into this region” (Campbell 89). These “Trials” or series of tests are the actual adventures which the hero encounters before reaching his ultimate destination/goal and are considered by readers/listeners as the most popular part of the hero’s path. These series of challenges help the hero to further develop his skills and character. On these “Roads” he must fight against familiar foes and/or

A Hero is the main character that develops the most important actions in a story, and leads the main events occur. The Hero has virtues and qualities that make him outstand. The Hero's Journey is composed by 12 stages that the Hero must overpass to achieve his goal. The Ordinary World is the first stage. This stage is the Hero's home, and where the Hero's characteristics, drives, urges and problems are exposed so the audience can relate to the situation in which the Hero finds himself at. The Call to Adventure is the stage in which the challenge, problem or conflict of the story is presented to the Hero. In this stage the comfort of the Hero's Ordinary World is disrupted and puts the Hero in a decisive situation. The Refusal of the Call is the next stage, and because of fears and insecurities the Hero does not accept the

Somehow, Faelan managed to find her way to the garden. She did admit, rather reluctantly, that she had exited the castle as soon as she could and then followed the pebbled road towards greenery in the distance. She arrived first and took the opportunity to look around at the maze of green. There were emerald hedges that raced around in linear lines and flourishing flowers ordered and sectioned off between gaps in the hedges, as well, as impressive marble benches stationed at intervals along the path. Although it was much larger than the quaint garden in Highever, Faelan couldn’t help but be reminded of home. She fingered a still budding rose and thought briefly of her brother, Fergus.

How does one get classified as a hero? Would they need super powers? Or could they just be a protagonist from a basic traditional "Journey" who overcomes challenges in order to meet the end goal of an objective or fortune. In this story, Pi fits the attributes of a saint, despite the fact that he is just a 16-year-old boy. Every hero, before embarking on their journey, has to get through the three stages: separation, crossing the threshold, and the return. Answering your call to adventure, leads the hero on a trip of departure from a familiar land he knows to venture of somewhere in a new region. Pi's call of “adventure” is the point at which his parents inform to him of their move to Canada, upset of this news, Pi has refused the call. He

There once was a horse named Dino. He lived in greece. His mother and father noticed that when he was born he was to small for a baby so they named him Dino.Why is because Dino means “little sword”. He was very tiny for his age and got picked on by his horse friends. Even the MOUSE picked on him. So one day he decided that he had had enough. He galloped right up to Maia ,the god of growth, and said he said “ I am sick and tired of being picked on” he said furiously…. “So may you make me grow?” He asked. “well little colt I can do that ,buuuut only on 1 condition. You have to trap the minotaur, tame the Sphinx to obey me and bring Cerberus to the underworld so hades can have nothing to prevent the dead from leaving the underworld.

Wrath is tired. Yesterday was a hard day for him. He was shot, stabbed and crushed under a droid. I patched him up several times, but even my skills have limits. He has spent hours in meditation, using the Force to heal himself. Once I quietly peeked into the room, just to see if he is alright. He sat there with closed eyes, out from this world, red mist swirling around him. I closed the door carefully and tiptoed away. He will be good.

Clare’s ‘Shadowhunters’ are more alike to Demigods than they are to the biblical Nephilim. Nephilim are the offspring of humans and angels, usually described as giants. But the race Clare describes is more alike to the fourth stage of creation mentioned by Hesiod in Works and Days. The fourth race was Demigods, offspring of humans and the Gods, living under the rule of Chronos. They were described as very heroic and mostly depicted as fighting long wars. The Nephilim