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    The hero’s journey is perhaps one of the most archaic‚ most easily understood‚ and yet‚ most complex tales in all of human existence. It has been recounted in indeterminate ways such as when the hero saves the princess in the classic saga‚ Star Wars‚ to the hero learning nothing more than a simple moral lesson that is meant to be directed towards the reader like in the Wizard of Oz. It is also infused into literature with the hero defeating crippling ailments and managing to restore the courage

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    Hero’s Journey Narrative Unit English 1-2 Curriculum Guide Version 1.0: September 2009 Table of Contents: Hero’s Journey Narrative Unit Activity Page # Introduction to Unit 3 Unit Template with Learning Plan 4 Student Progress Monitoring 7 Academic Vocabulary 9 Pre-assessment 10 Reflection on Pre-Assessment 12 Quickwrites 14 Rites of Passage/Transitional Moments 16 Defining a Hero 18 Hero’s Journey through Film 19 Literature Circles (or Jig Saw) with Short Stories 28 Elements of an Effective

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    Campbell‚ explains the characteristics of the hero’s journey. This journey consists of a hero leaving his or her ordinary world on an adventure to later return as a changed person. The movie Django Unchained tells the story of a newly freed slave‚ Django‚ in the world of racism at its most treacherous time. Django learns how to survive in this world and sets out to rescue and free his wife. By analyzing this movie‚ Campbell’s theory about the hero’s journey can be better understood. Django takes the

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    Hero’s Journey All heroes are the same. Joseph Campbell‚ an American scholar‚ concluded that all heroes follow the same pattern called “The Hero’s Journey.” Beowulf is no exception to this pattern. Every hero has a different ordinary world. Beowulf hears about the monster from the scops in Geatland‚ which is his ordinary world. “In his far-off home Beowulf‚ Higlac’s follower and the strongest of the Geats- greater and stronger than anyone anywhere in this world- heard how Grendel filled nights

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    goes on a long treacherous journey to retrieve the dwarves treasure from the dragon‚ Smaug. Bilbo is terrified to go on this adventure but is soon persuaded to go. This story is an epic that states all of the steps of a “hero’s journey”. With this being said‚ the three steps of a “hero’s journey” are the departure‚ initiation‚ and the return. Through Bilbo’s misadventures‚ he goes through all of these steps. Bilbo and all of his companions learn throughout the journey. The departure includes the

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    The hero’s journey‚ if executed properly‚ can create some wonderful stories. A lot of the most praised and well known books‚ movies‚ and plays follow the hero’s journey almost exactly‚ even some with the steps in the same order. For example‚ The Hunger Games‚ The Giver‚ Divergent‚ Twilight and many more enjoyable books and novels match up with the hero’s journey fairly closely. When a lot of books follow the same model there tends to be too many similarities‚ with some predictable lines and actions

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    lives. Mr. Campbell named this famous theory the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey states that the hero’s must first endure several obstacles and if the hero passes all the obstacles he/she will be rewarded. This treacherous journey is repeated over and over again. This theory not only relates to us but it relates to everyone for instance myself. In fact my life’s journey as a football player and a grandson is much like the Joseph Campbell’s hero journey because I had left my ordinary world‚ met my

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    Matrix‚ Lord of the Ring? The key to their success is the structure of the story: they all applied Hero’s Journey‚ introduced by Joseph Campbell in 1949. The sense of this structure actually existed long before Joseph Campbell. Stories like Beowulf were the ancestors with such bloodline. Though the structure evolved differently as time pasts‚ the essence of it never vanishes. Genuinely‚ a Hero’s Journey contains three main sections: departure‚ redemption‚ and return. The referenced TED talk is pretty

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    In our journeys‚ perhaps we’ll meet‚ Surely‚ on the way‚ someday.’ Was it a goodbye message? -- Her lips curved into a smile. A gradual transition in the facial muscles at the corner of her lips created tiny depressions and dimples appeared on her both cheeks.

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    The  Hero’s  Journey: Archetypes and The Monomyth 1) ARCHETYPE - From the Greek word “arkhetupos”  meaning  exemplary  or  ideal;;  an   original model or template after which other things are patterned - IN PSYCHOLOGY: Psychologist Carl Jung’s  idea  of  universal archetypes relates to the recurring pattern of beliefs‚ situations‚ characters‚ stories and/or symbols existing around the world in the collective unconscious of humanity - A  “Perfect  Type”  of  something  upon  which

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