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    A Semi-Heroic Journey

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    Traveling through city to city has been exciting yet difficult when I have been taking on a semi-nomadic journey for the past few years. However, while I navigate through the cities, besides google map, the fellow world citizens are my lifesavers. Even though we are all strangers to one another, when encountering emergency, we lend a hand to each other voluntarily without a second of hesitation. Remember when I was in London, several strangers, originated from different European countries, saved

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    This is like a call to adventure. Additionally, another way that Heroic Journey is displayed is when Dorothy runs home from Professor Marvels when she thinks Aunt Emily is sick. This is a refusal to call. Did Dorothy really want to leave? Did she just not realize that home is where she could be the happiest? Finally, when Dorothy reaches Munchkin Land from the twister she crosses the first threshold of her heroic journey. To conclude, in the exposition the author displays separation.

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    The Odyssey English Final Essay The story of Homer's the Odyssey is and is not a heroic story; Odysseus is a hero because of his return; however it is also not a heroic journey because he cheated on his wife and the lack of a treasure One of the reason that the Odyssey is considered a heroic journey is because of Odysseus return from his long journey. When Odysseus returns, the workers are overjoyed and wake up Penelope saying, "Wake up, Penelope, my dear child, so you can see for yourself

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    Cheryl’s heroic journey begins as her mother dies from lung cancer at the age of forty five. Cheryl was not right by her mother’s side when she passed away. Because of this she encounters tremendous feelings of guilt. This was a tipping point for Cheryl. She struggled not only with the grief of losing her mother whom without question she loved but by an enormous amount of guilt. Cheryl writes “Nothing could ever bring my mother back or make it okay that she was gone. Nothing would ever put me

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    were destined to save your town, would you be heroic enough? What is a hero? Campbell’s Heroic Journey, The Hobbit, and story/ film explains. My idea of a hero is being a person who sacrifices themselves for others, and doesn't think people are less worthy than themselves. The Heroic Journey describes that anyone can be a hero, examples of that would be The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, which is a story about a group of men go on a death defying journey to save the town. The other story is How to Train

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    though, sit down and ponder “what would it take to be a hero? Could I be a hero?” I recently watched Moana and read The Hobbit with Robert Campbell’s “Heroic Journey” in mind. I learned that heroes are a huge part of life, and come in many shapes and sizes, meaning anyone can be one. Heroes have different backgrounds, personalities, and journeys. A hero is someone who is willing to make sacrifices for others, making their lives a little better. Heroes are there for people; it’s what they do. A very

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    dwarves to try and reclaim The Lonely Mountain from the great dragon Smaug. The novel covers this whole story, while the movie that I watched, The Desolation of Smaug, only covered about a third of the tale. This story follows what’s known as The Heroic Journey, a format that explains the different parts that a narrative with a hero in it may have. The Hobbit is a great story; however, the book was made by an author who wanted to make a great story, while the movie was made solely to create profit. This

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    Pai Heroic Journey Essay

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    Pai Heroic Journey A hero is a person who can endure danger and is not afraid to face challenges. In the film “Whale Rider,” a young girl with those exact characteristics, Pai, changes everything within her community of the Maori. Her dedication for equality in her community and to better herself differs from how her everyone views women. Men in her community looked upon as superior. Pai was looked down upon because of her non-feminine attributes and her refusal to listen to her grandfather

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    real heroics that she served to the people. Synergy always loved helping people and seeing their faces when she finished helping them. When she was born she could see the future by a few minutes, so she helped people know what was going to happen in the short future. She also could fly and see through things like walls, bricks, stone, etc. One day when she was 9 years old she decided to go on a journey, so she packed a sack of some of her stuff she needed to survive. The point of her journey was to

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    The Heroic Journey of Hamlet and Simba “Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for” (Joseph Campbell), this relates to monomyth because it shows that hero’s follow the monomyth cycle, the hero is fighting for something that is important to them no matter how difficult it is. Joseph Campbell depicts “a typical adventure of the archetype known as the hero” (Mrs. Suarez document). The monomyth journey shows that heroic characters experience this pattern. Monomyth

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