Hero's Journey

In Louis Sachar’s book Holes, the protagonist Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp after being wrongly convicted for stealing donated sneakers. Stanley is born under a curse and is bullied because he is overweight and poor, giving the audience a misguided first impression of him as an unsuspecting hero. But throughout the course of the book, it shows that the protagonist unexpectedly develops into a hero who saves one of his best friends from turning into “buzzard food,” and unknowingly breaks the family curse. During Stanley’s ordeal stay at Camp Green Lake, he not only changes mentally to display heroic traits like altruism, perseverance and bravery he has also changed physically to be a stronger, healthier individual. Sachar effectively portrays the protagonist to have altruism.

The novel starts with Andrew Ryan looking displeased about the photos of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and from that point on he knew this world wasn 't good enough for what he has in store. He later on meets a freelancing plumber by the name of Bill McDonagh whom is very pleased with not taking advantage of his wealth when asking how much he needs for the job he did fixing the toilet. Ryan gains the utmost respect of Bill and tells him of the plans he has in store and wants Bill to be the main constructor of the city. With the help of the Wales brothers into further construct the structures. Starting in November 5th, 1946 upon completion in 1951 located at 63° 2 ' N, 29° 55 ' W, which places it at about 433 kilometers west of Iceland 's

Before each battle, Beowulf meets major obstacles. When traveling the seas to fight Grendel he reports that there were several sea creatures. When Beowulf arrives, he meets his shadow; an evil figure who mirrors those things the hero most fears or dislikes about himself. Beowulf’s shadow is Unferth. Unferth was intoxicated and tried to accuse Beowulf of not being as magnificent as he claimed.

4. The name Bowie In the first years of his music career, David goes by the name of David Jones, his real name. The problem with his stage name starts when The Monkeys band member David Jones starts a solo career. Their names are similar so David Bowie decides that it is the right time to swap his last name with something more American. Because he was fascinated with America and all things American, going through American history, he stumbles upon 19 Th century pioneer Jim Bowie the inventor of the Bowie knife (how cool is that) and settled for the name Bowie.

For example, Perseus, who lived as a son of Zeus and a princess Danae, serves its purpose of cutting a head of Medusa to offer it as a gift to Polydectes and he completes his goal by utilizing exceptional weapons from immortal gods. On the other hand, our historic sixteenth United States President from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, fulfilled his goal of preserving the Union by establishing one of his most remarkable strategy known as Emancipation Proclamation which made Union soldiers fight harder than ever to end slavery. As demonstrated, each hero had their own dissimilar purposes to pursue and accomplished their goals by Perseus borrowing the gods' superpowers whereas Abraham Lincoln simply using his advantage of wisdom and intelligence. As shown above, realistic and fictional heroes show similarities as much as differences. They share their heroic traits and undergo the process of the heroic journey while they differ in their own goals and realistic heroes do not possess any superpower compared to fictional heroes.

Though, as one breaks it down one can see that it does not follow the stereotypical princess story. This plays to the movies advantage because it draws in moviegoers of all ages to it. Those who are younger will be entranced by the colorful landscapes shown on the screen, while the older crowd will love the storyline and the action depicted. Conversely, scenery plays an important role in the movie’s action scenes. The cliffs where Inigo duels Dread Pirate Robert for the first time leaves the watcher on the edge of their seats, wondering who is going to come out unscarthed.

Homer Barron is described as “a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face” (Faulkner 4). No woman wants to feel as if they’re unattractive, especially when it comes to someone they like in an intimate way. However, Emily’s problem wasn’t that she was unattractive because according to Faulkner, she was quite beautiful in her youth. The ultimate issue did not lie on Emily, but on Homer Barron because of his odd remark that he liked men. Emily must have been confused and a tad bit sad to find out that the man she liked didn’t like her back.

A college student's best friend is cliff notes. It provides information that is quick and easy to find for all sorts of books. However, it also illustrates the laziness of society and the emotional attachment from great works of society. Therefore, a parody on this is able to create great exposure to this flaw, while also providing a good amount of humor. In order to expose society the author uses incongruity and parody, to show that society is very lazy.

Popularity is increased when you are a show off, or you are a “bad boy.” Andy Evans throughout the story does questionable things, that's why he gets all the girls. He is a bad boy,” and people like that. Melinda is very quiet and does not try anything risky. On pg 186 “There's more. Different pens, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs.

She says that women are more intelligent and possess much more qualities than men. If men do these certain qualities then are considered childish and immature adults that is something that can’t be good for adulthood like “Star Wars’ like it’s not a movie made for people half their age; a guy’s idea of a perfect night is to hang around the PlayStation with his bandmates, or a trip Vegas with his college friends….”(Hymowitz,491). She has these certain viewpoints of what men are considered to be immature if they do things like watch Star Wars. Also she already has all these ideas of what an immature man is like and a man that is ready for adulthood. Hymowitz states that women have a greater chance of getting a bachelor degree than men do because “34 percent of women now have a bachelor degree but just 27 percent of men.”(Hymowitz,492).