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    Jaws

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    Joe McBride 11/21/11 English 11 Hero ’s Journey Narrative: Jaws Jaws was a movie that was made which clearly represents itself as a movie that follows a Hero ’s Journey Narrative. The Journey begins with The Call‚ as part of the Departure. The Call begins once Sheriff Brody is first made aware of the shark attack that happens‚ before several more break out. He essentially accepts The Call by looking further into the attack‚ in case more come to his attention. The Initiation begins

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    The Life-Changing Journey In the short story‚ “Greasy Lake‚” written by author T. Coraghessan Boyle‚ we read about the gruesome discovery that the unidentified narrator himself comes across on one particular summer night while seeking adventure with his two friends. The teenage boys all of equal age believe they are “bad” and unfortunately they learn the hard way about the consequences of being mischievous when they visit the infamous Greasy Lake. The suburban boys find more than what they are

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    Interpretations of Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey ____________________________________________________________ The Hero’s Journey: 1. Heroes are introduced in the ORDINARY WORLD‚ where 2. they receive the CALL TO ADVENTURE. 3. They are RELUCTANT at first or REFUSE THE CALL‚ but 4. are encouraged by a MENTOR to 5. CROSS THE FIRST THRESHOLD and enter the Special World‚ where 6. they encounter TESTS‚ ALLIES‚ AND ENEMIES. 7. They APPROACH THE INMOST CAVE‚ crossing a second threshold 8. where

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    Osiris, Isis and Horus

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    Reading Response #1 "Osiris‚ Isis and Horus" To me it makes no difference that Isis is female. I think she still follows Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero and the hero’s journey. Even though Isis’s story differs from the hero’s journey she is still a hero according to the people of Egypt. On page 14 of our text World Mythology‚ Donna Rosenberg states “Isis was a human being as well as a goddess. Her persistent search for the body of Osiris and her trials while she reared Horus in the papyrus

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    The motion picture we are applying or using is Pixar’s "Finding Nemo". Our hero would be Marlin‚ the timid clownfish who lives safe and secluded in the colorful and warm tropical waters of the Great Barrier Reef. After the devastating‚ life changing event when starting a family‚ specifically when a hostile fish devoured his wife and all his unborn kids‚ Marlin had been a cowardly‚ cautious individual who lacks socialism and simply "can’t tell a joke". He limits‚ rescues‚ protects and controls Nemo

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    In the film "The Matix" the main character Neo is taken on a journey that by all acounts seems to fit the model of the classical "hero’s journey" pattern. From his call to adventure by way of Morpheus‚ to the road of trials that included his meeting with the Oracle‚ he experienced a very text book style adventure. The first step of a hero’s journey is the departure‚ which has several underlying topics such as the call to adventure‚ the refusal of the call‚ the supernatural aid‚ the crossing of the

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    The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a non-fiction novel written by Joseph Campbell. The book explains Campbell’s 17 steps of a hero. Campbell believed that all heroes went through these steps through out there journey. Many books emphasize and prove his theory correct‚ but these were some pieces that came to mind were the epic of Gilgamesh‚ Beowulf‚ and Things Fall Apart. In these pieces of literature we deal with two types of heroes. There is the tragic hero such as Okonkwo in the book Things Fall

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    In the illustration of Joseph Campbell’s‚ "the hero with a thousand faces"‚ he does make a good and compelling discussion on how his story explains how a individual goes through trails and tributations of the hero’s journey. In an example from each chapters‚ "The call to adventure"‚ the hero or individual gets the call to start a relationship with the new‚ unsuspected world. This is how many of the hero’s journeys start. The hero accepting this call will into a new unknown area‚which he will face

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    In almost all of the stories that have been written‚ there is a journey that the character undertakes to become whole and balanced‚ also known as the heroic journey. In the first stage of the journey‚ the departure‚ the hero leaves their known world and begins their adventure. After the hero undergoes the departure‚ they then move on to the next stage‚ the initiation‚ where they are put through tests and venture into the world of hero or magic or the previously unknown. The third and final stage

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    The sixth stage of the hero’s journey is the Approach. The hero is at at location where danger lies ahead or faced with an inner conflict. The hero also encounters The Belly of the Whale‚ “[...] the hero‚ instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the threshold‚ is swallowed into the unknown [...]” (Campbell 74). Susanna being in the hospital and with the other patients has caused her to have a battle with her identity. Susanna enters the belly of the whale‚ in not believing in her psychosis

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