Makina Character Analysis

Rachel Aouli Kalama Utagawa was six when the book Moloka’i by Alan Brennert began. She wanted to travel the world like her father did. Every time he went to a new place he brought Rachel a cultural doll. The most recent addition to her collection was a Russian nesting doll. Like her newest doll, Rachel was still showing her outermost shell. She was an innocent girl who saw the good in the entire world around her. As she explored and discovered the layers of herself, the world around her unfolded. This sweet doll had layers of innocence, sorrow, hate, joy, and fulfillment.

A worn path is a story about a woman named Phoenix Jackson who needs to go a journey to town to get medicine for her sick grandson. It is a trip she has made before many times before (hence the title A worn Path) but there is something special about this trip, something different. In this paper I plan to dwell into the symbolism behind the Legend of the Phoenix and its relationship to her journey in the story. The legend of the Phoenix is about a fabled sacred bird of ancient Egyptians, said to come out of Arabia every 500 years to Heliopolis, where it burned itself on altar and rose again from its ashes young and beautiful; symbol of immortality. I think this story also represents Christian beliefs because the setting is

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.

The “hero’s journey”, coined by Joseph Campbell, is a pattern in the plot structure of literature, myths, and oral tradition in which the hero is consistently faced with similar obstacles and achieves many of the same goals. The first part of the hero’s journey is “The Call.” The hero is usually living a very comfortable and easy life, unaware of the journey ahead. The hero is then faced with a situation or dilemma which eventually causes them to seek change. The hero, at this point, tends to refuse the call to adventure in fear of the unknown. Once the hero has been given the strength to push past the unknown, they have entered the threshold. The hero will experience many challenges and temptations where the hero is tested, eventually reaching “The Abyss,” the most difficult challenge. The hero is then transformed by these trials and returns home to every-day life and begins to contribute to their society. The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie, experiences the hero’s journey first-hand through overcoming obstacles and transforming herself. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the heroine Janie overcomes many obstacles and is therefore transformed into a self reliant woman.

After Makina is called to go on this journey, she must cross a boundary between the two worlds, known as the “Threshold Crossing,” and make her journey into the “new world.” Volger explains that “Threshold Guardians,” people that try to block and test the hero, are commonly seen in this stage of the Quest Cycle; they can start as enemies and turn into allies (129). Often the hero must ignore the guardian or reflect their energy back onto them (Vogler 129). Once the hero has surpassed the guardians, they can cross the physical boundary into the other world (Vogler 130). However, when the protagonist arrives in the “new world” they are tested and must adapt to the new rules quickly (Vogler 138). The heroes often

Abstract: Myths are symbolic representations of the innermost aspects of life and the spiritual underpinnings of the religions. Numerous mythological stories depict the journey of self, both inwardly and outwardly. Myths preserve that journey of ultimate destiny of every individual which reveals timeless truth. Mythologies of different cultures speak about the hero’s journey both inwardly and outwardly which lead to spiritual growth. The hero departs from this world and goes through the wilderness of unconscious and returns to the society of being strong and self-aware in spirit. This research paper describes the set of concepts known as “The Hero’s Journey” drawn from the depth of psychology of Carl G.Jung and mythic studies of Joseph Campbell. It tries to relate those ideas to contemporary story telling which evolve from our innermost selves and our most distant past. Joseph Campbell described the hero’s journey as monomyth in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). Hero’s journey is a hand book of life which gives instructions in the art of being human. It is not an invention but an observation. It recognizes a set of

In the book Nation, Mau faces a lot of challenges and all of those challenges made Mau into an amazing leader. In the book Mau experiences being stranded on a deserted island because of an enormous wave that hit his nation. He has to learn how to survive on the island and help others.

Matt is loyal to Tam Lin. Matt is loyal to Tam Lin because when Tam Lin told Matt to promise him never to go there. Matt listen to Tom Lin and promised he would not go there. Matt looks up to Tam Lin. If Tam Lim didn’t tell him to go there, Matt would probably have gone there. In the beginning, we expect El Patrón to have a huge effect on Matt. But in the end, he doesn't. Early on, Matt cares about his relationship with El Patrón. It also shows in the text about Matt thoughts that "He was well pleased that he shared something with El Patrón" (Farmer 58). Later Mat realizes that though "El Patrón loved him but he was evil" (Farmer 192). El Patron loves Matt but he was evil in many ways. Matt became from selfish child to a knowledgeable and

>She admits she's a "monster" and then the 99.999999% of her shpeel is how much a threat they are to her child, her child's "innocence", and her acting Ike Turner reborn. That bitch is insufferable.

As I began to read this story, I realized the beginning of it was slow. The story slowly became more interesting as more characters were revealed. The main character’s tolerance for the injustices that kept occurring was interesting. Why did he not try to seek employment elsewhere if he was so unhappy with his, “yes sir” position? As strange, yet interesting as this story was, it was also confusing. It was unclear if the main character was imagining the McKinnon family or if he was actually seeing them. No one else seemed to discuss the whereabouts of the McKinnon family, most likely they were a figment of his imagination. As a reader, I feel sorry for him and his family. His wife does not want anything to do with him, his children are taken

Marv’s character is changed through the novel. At the beginning of the story the author writes about Marv being stingy and never spending a cent on anyone but always having a ton of money in the bank. Then towards the end of the book you find that Marv never spent his money because he had a daughter and felt horrible for never having the guts to see her. Therefore Marv saves all his money in hopes to give it to his daughter one day to help pay for the things she wants including school. This shows that people do things for a reason for example Marv was always stingy but his reason for being this way was to try and help look after his daughter. This really challenged my perspective on Marv because behind his stinginess was a guy saving money

The two characters skills and abilities differ from one another on many platform including skills on the battlefields, skills of diplomacy, nevertheless both can be considered powerful leaders. Without delay, Maven skills of diplomacy showed that he knew his way around people when Cal did not. To support, Cal always push Maven to talk to people instead of doing the talking himself, furthermore, Cal thinks that Maven is a better communicator than he is (Aveyard, p.247, 2015). With this in mind, Maven knows how to manipulate the public minds, for every wanted portrays of Cal and Mare were chosen specifically to make them appear how Maven wanted them to look (Aveyard, p. 196, 2016). Equally important, Cal is more skillful than Maven in combat

The only thing that made me start to watch Carmilla was Laura Hollis. This adorable, headstrong, oblivious girl who just wanted to find her roommate and was willing to sacrifice her life for the wellbeing of others. Laura was amazing in her own way, she wasn’t pretentious, and she never stopped being who she was in order to fit, but what made her interesting was that she was flawed. She was not a Mary Sue that had to get her way because she wanted so. She was a character whose sense of justice made her reckless, irresponsible and immature. She was relatable.

Katsumi can be quite charming, but this superficial gleam of niceness is usually just an act and if she doesn't feel like it's necessary she will be rather cold and sarcastic towards people and occasionally treat others like peasants, because she thinks she is better than almost everybody else. There are rare exceptions of people that will be treated sincerely nice, but those are people she cares about, and that is basically just her family and Miss Reiko. She is very protective of the people she sincerely likes and will treat them nice and hurt anyone that should threaten to harm these people. Other people besides her family, atleast according to Katsumi, haven't been able to prove themselves worthwhile of her friendship.

The film “Sankofa,” raised a lot of awareness to the African American community. An African American woman named Mona was transported to the past as a house servant named Shola. She experienced slavery in the Southern United States during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Shola was abused by her slave master and often a victim of rape. She was afraid to fight back, for the fear of her life. She was in love with Shango, a field slave that wanted to kill the white slave owners. A headman named Joe was raised believing his master’s religion instead of his own roots. Joe knew he was different from the other slaves but he did not know why he was. Joe’s mother, Nunu, was taken away to be sold in one scene and Joe did absolutely nothing about it. Mona called him a coward because he could care less if his mother was being sold or not. The priest from the church made Joe’s mother seem like an evil person all because she was darker than he was. Luckily, no one was interested in her because she was a little too old.