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    monsters, and the arrival home. In comparison to “The Odyssey”, the main characters of “O’ Brother Where Art Thou” meet many archetypical characters, however with slight differences. For example, right at the beginning, Everett and his companions meet the “nameless prophet”, who tells them of their future

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    Odyssey and The Cruelest Journey. In The Odyssey Odysseus was traveling back to Ithaca and to his wife after the battle of troy which took ten years in battle and ten more to get home. Salak was on a long journey down a 600 mile river the Niger, upon arrival to Timbuktu she’d be the first person to ever conquer the river. Odysseus and Salak encounter conflicts on their journey to their destination. In Aoleuses Winds from the Odyssey and the rain scene from The Cruelest Journey they both go through similar

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    on the path to heroism. Joseph Campbell categorized a hero’s journey into three different phases; the departure phase, the initiation phase, and the return phase. The movie Hercules portrays Joseph Campbell's monomyth in a brilliant light. Every great hero begins their story in the departure stage. Usually, the hero recognizes there is something exotic or uncommon about them that secludes them from others.

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    In the texts The Little Refugee by Anh and Suzanne Do (2011) and The Arrival illustrated by Shaun Tan (2007), language and images are used to target younger audiences on the important matter of Australian refugees and immigrants. Both texts emotionally explore the hearts of immigrants and refugees. Through the language and images that are used, the responders are positioned to see the struggles of those who come from another country. The viewer would see how much a little smile and a point in the

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    It is human nature to pursue living in a place with happiness and peace. If people suffer a lot in an region, they must begin to find another place in order to survive. Many people around the world suffer a lot, such as hunger and violence, especially in some Asian countries. These situations can be caused by a war for many years, terrorists or natural disaster. Today, because of the war in Syria, millions of refugees are trying to move to other countries, including the United States. Therefore,

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    turned to swine by the devious nymph. Being the hero Odysseus is, he makes the journey to Circe’s castle to save them. Along the way, he meets Hermes, messenger of the gods, who tells him that the only way to save his comrades is too not fall for Circe’s spell, causing her to be amazed by his greatness; “You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns” (10.366). Little did Odysseus know, Circe already knew of his arrival; “- Hermes the giant killer, god of golden wand, he always said you’d come, homeward

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    the novel “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho we follow our young hero Santiago who starts off as a simple shepherd, but comes upon his own personal legend in which he is introduced to a whole new world filled with companions that help him along his journey. He dreams of the Pyramids in Egypt and wishes to understand this recurring dream so finds a gypsy who tells him to simply travel across the desert to find his treasure in Egypt. This leaves him pondering the idea to leave all he has come to know

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    fated to come, and accurately predicts its arrival. Madame Defarge’s belief in events taking their own course also applies to Charles Darnay and whether he may return to France. Madame Defarge says that Darnay’ fate will lead him to where they end after his and his family’s names are entered on the register. When discussing with Monsieur Defarge on the recent intel given to them by John Barsad, Madame expresses her opinion on whether Darnay may journey to France or not: “-And if it does come,

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    They asked both the city of Brooklyn and local charities for help, but were rejected. Clara then asked railroad titan Chauncey Depew. Depew gave them rail passes to travel from New York to Chicago. From Chicago they walked to Minneapolis. Upon arrival in Minneapolis, Helga and Clara

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    Faith, misery and fear relate to the book Night by the fear that Elie feels about losing his dad at the arrival of the concentration camp. How Elie explains "we were alone"( page 29 Night). His father was the only one that remained close to him. After the separation of his family and during the time at the camp Elie began to lose faith towards God and on living. The main concern keeping Elie alive was his father, because he knew if he was to pass away his father will soon too as he was growing older

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