Hero Quest

The archetype of the Hero’s Journey holds a prevalent pattern in the works of “Initiation” by Sylvia Plath, “A & P” by John Updike, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. These works all follow the 17 stages of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth which are separated in three stages; separation, initiation, and return. The main characters have different characterizations; however, they all follow the basic structure of the Hero’s journey archetype. There are many similarities and differences between the stages that are shown through many context clues and literary devices in each work. The Hero’s Journey archetype expressed in these literary works follow a similar and direct narrative pattern.

Nature is the playground for every human. It is essential that we include nature in our lives; it keeps us on our correct path. However, if we dismiss ourselves from nature, we begin to stray from our correct path. We become engulfed in the distractions from the modern world . The only approach to appropriate this quandary is to break our pervicacious ways and return to peaceful serenity known as nature.

I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan and I am on page 553. This book is about a boy named Jason who is a roman demigod. Just like the book the Lighting Thief, Percy Jackson is a main character in the book. Jason is just now figuring out that he is a demigod and he had to go across the world to save Hera. Hera is married to Zeus and is trapped and Jason and his friends have to save her before the winter solstice. In this paper, I will be Predicting and Evaluating.

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

Disney’s Hercules depicts the classic mythical tale of the infamous demi god. Evil Hades, Hercules grows up on Earth but has godly strength from which he doesn't know originates. When he discovers his immortal heritage, Zeus calls him to return to Mount Olympus to become the champion he is destined to be. Eventually, Hercules evolves to be a famous hero with the help of Pegasus and Phil the satyr. Through his journey he takes on mythical monsters, Titans, and Hades. In the end it is his sacrifice that make him a true hero.

Gerald is a 19 year old that has other brothers that all want the inheritance of their parents for themselves they are all selfish and they are fighting over the money and they keep fighting then gerald snaps and he stabs one of his brothers and left him for dead as he was running the cops saw him and they chased him and through the city and when he found his house he ran in then the brothers attacked him for killing his own blood and then he fought out of it and he got into a fist fight with his brothers and that wasn't for killing his brother it was for the money and he was losing when his close friend came and broke up the fight and the friend got punched in the face and he drew a gun and yelled “quit this fighting aren't you guys brothers” and Gerald ripped the gun out of his friends hand and he shot it

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”(Joseph Campbell). Joseph Campbell showed how important hero’s are by creating the Hero’s Journey and that you can be a hero just through writing and showing it through different characters. A hero shows that you can help other people to make the world better

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.

The Hero’s Quest is an archetypal journey a character embarks on, representing their quest of overcoming an obstacle and becoming a hero. The Hero’s Quest follows a specific pattern of stages the hero goes through on their quest. Typically this hero goes through great physical, mental and lifestyle changes to transform from a normal person into a hero on one quest, attempting to overcome one obstacle. Beowulf is an epic poem written during the time of the Anglo-Saxons; heroism is a motif commonly found in literature during this period. Beowulf tells the journey of a young man who transforms into a hero and accomplishes what was thought to be impossible. While Beowulf followed the archetypal qualities of the

“With the personifications of his destiny to guide and aid him, the hero goes forward in his adventure until he comes to the ‘threshold guardian’ at the entrance to the zone of magnified power”. Thus wrote the mythologist Joseph Campbell on the hero’s departure from his home as he ventures into the world of the unknown where he will encounter many challenges. Owing to its form as a nostos, Homer’s Odyssey (trans. Shrewing) conforms to the obverse of this mythological paradigm postulated by Campbell. The challenge for Odysseus is to return, not to his native land of Ithaca, but to the mortal realm away from his heroic past. No scene other than the trial of the marriage bed within Book XXIII more potently illuminates this. For Odysseus’ journey

Is not weird how we all heroes that go through the same path? According to Joseph Campbell, once a philosopher, that brought the many ideas of how in way we all go through the hero’s journey. In addition, he believed going through a path that allowed us to face fears or our “dragons.” Therefore, after facing our “dragons,” we could then face the inevitable. Consequently, we lose a pieces of ourselves and as we enter another world, we lose our perspective of life.

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

The Hero’s Quest is commonly divided into three groups: the Departure, the Initiation, and the Return. Each group has its own steps that a typical epic poem’s hero would follow on his quest. In the epic poem, Beowulf, the unknown author uses several steps of the Hero’s Quest to make Beowulf seem like a typical epic hero that follows the Hero’s Quest.

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.

So do you have a different way of thinking than the people around you, but no one seems to understand you? Well the protagonist from Into The Wild, Shooting An Elephant, and The Stranger .Would understand what you are going through. All the protagonist have a different way of thinking then the people around them. Making them special in their own books, or abnormal to the people around them. I’m going to be comparing these three literality pieces to five outside sources which are V for Vendetta, Assassins Creed 3, Punisher, Lucky, and Daredevil. I’m going to attempt to compare them all using Campbell’s 17 stages of Hero’s Journey.