Chronicles of Narnia “Heroic Journey” Assignment Part One: Elements of a Story 1. Setting: The story takes place in the timeless fantasy world known as “Narnia”, however there are some segments of the movie that take place in the context of WW2 (1939 - 1945). This is significant because during World War 2, kids were sent to the countryside in order to stay safe from the bombing of Germany. If the children had not gone to the countryside, they would have never met each other and would never have been able to enter the world of ‘Narnia’. Due to Narnia being ‘timeless’, it is a place where the children can escape and entail on huge quests and journeys without ever being found. 2. Protagonist and Antagonist: There is more than one protagonist …show more content…
Without him, the siblings would have never been able to set out on their journey or understand the world of Narnia at all. Besides, Edmund gets kidnapped, which creates a quest for the siblings as without him being lured by the white witch, the siblings could have just left Narnia and never returned. The use of the White Witch as the antagonist creates meaningful suspense and instigates the quest that the siblings are made to pursue. 3. Major conflict: The major conflict for this story is Person versus Person. Aslan and the siblings fight against the evil White Witch in order to prevent her from reigning Narnia with despotism. The idea of both sides having an army creates a good amount of characters for the movie as if it was not just the White Witch versus the siblings and Aslan. The conflict between the two groups (societies) significantly leads to one of the main themes of the story —— Good versus Evil, for which we can argue that it kind implies the World War 2 situation outside. For this conflict, each key character has contributed to it and the audiences can personally choose to either hate or like them. In this case, the story becomes more interesting since we need to root to one side to expect it for winning. 4. Climax: Aslan is killed by the White Witch according to the secret convention they’ve made before to rescue
Have you ever noticed the way characters go on journey’s during movies and books follow a pattern? In I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai it talks about her adventure to make girls have rights and get to go to school just like boys; during The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien it goes through Bilbo's adventure with Thorin and Co. to reclaim the treasures that were taken. Both books have a few similarities and many differences that these author’s uses to portray the Hero's Journey. There are many differences between the steps of these heroes’ journeys.
The steps of The Heroic Journey start out within the normal life of the ordinary world. In The Hobbit,
24- She wanted him to go and tell the authorities that the girls are lying about what happen 25- He actually knows what he has to do, but he does not want to get involve with all that will happen 26- A puppet 27- The evidence was that she confessed to witchcraft, the girls actually acted like if she was choking them to death 28-
The characters’ frightfulness of witches/witchcraft and the devil drives them to take extreme measures to try to prevent it. Resulting in the gruesome deaths and false accusations of many innocent people. Alongside that theme, Miller also explores the themes of truth and dishonesty. The characters are continually forced to choose between telling the truth or lying to protect themselves or loved ones. As the book goes on it becomes clear that being honest is the only way to fight the chaos and bring themselves justice.
Michael Shermer, a science writer and historian of science said, “Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.” In J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, the main protagonist, joins a group of dwarves to recover their lost, forgotten gold from Smaug the dragon. Joseph Campbell’s A Hero with a Thousand Faces, he states that many legendary heros follow a pattern in their adventures. Matthew Winkler has his own ideas of the heroic quest pattern, stating the hero's follow a pattern of eleven stages. Both The Hobbit and the heroic journey have similar elements with departure, initiation and then return.
The American people prefer to live together, but they also love individualism. This paper looks at how Robert Ray explores enduring people’s thoughts about society and how to balance community and the individual. Ray’s model was designed to use as a guide in Hollywood movies. Ray combined academic study from history to look at scholarship, and psychology as well; he didn’t end there, but he equally explained how written works have repeatedly been used in worldviews about the community behavior in trying to avoid breaking the law or to weaken the American film industry. Ray’s “The Thematic Paradigm” considered persistence in approach which has been used in the worldviews and tradition as the two reasons why the American people have not avoided
The father constantly fears what is going to happen to his family because they do not have enough to eat. Hansel and Gretel are afraid and they feel helpless when they are lost in the woods and when they are trapped in the witch’s house. The plot type for Hansel and Gretel seems to be a quest. The fairytale revolves around the children who are trying to find their way back home after being abandoned in the forest by their wicked stepmother.
Author’s show the Hero’s Journey in many different and similar ways. In The Hobbit wrote by JRR Tolkien the Hero Bilbo Baggins leaves his home to go on a adventure with the dwarves’. They run into goblins, elves’, and spiders and are heading to Smaug to fight a dragon to get their gold back. In A Dog’s Life wrote by Ann M Martin the Hero Squirrel leaves her home to follow her brother and runs into another home. The person of the home drives them and drops them off at the mall; Squirrel loses her brother named Bone and is left in the mall to find food and shelter.
“All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil.” - Anon. You may not realize this, however this quote is surprisingly true. An example of this can be found in the novel, “Before We Were Free” by Julia Alvarez, where the protagonist Anita, is living with her family in the Dominican Republic lead by El Jefe, the antagonist. Throughout the novel, several conflicts occur between Anita (and her family) and El Jefe.
Now stranded on an unknown island, the boys must govern themselves. Soon the burning desire for power overthrows their civilized approach of leadership as a deciding factor tears the boys apart. Golding effectively uses the symbolism of the conch, the beast, and painted faces to reinforce the theme of how difficult situations reveal the demons inside of everyone. Together these symbols are applied in order to lead the reader to the suspenseful end.
All of the boys on the island had both good and evil within them; however, the evil was much stronger and conquered them in the end. The boys were put in a rare situation that combined two deathly aspects: fear and chaos. When people are afraid they realize the violence they can cause, “and when they are afraid together they discover that the violence within them can be almost bottomless” (Golding, “Why”). On the island, there were only two boys who put a firm fight against their violent nature. But in the end this resistance, was what ultimately killed them.
Therefore, the Boy’s “Hero’s Journey” in The Road, while certainly not a traditional Hero’s Journey, does contain several key elements of the journey, such as a mentor, tests, and a supreme ordeal. However, the atypical journey of the Boy, particularly the lack of a clear denouement, allows the Hero’s Journey of the Boy to become open to the interpretation of the reader, and therefore allow the reader to transpose their own experiences and journey to the Boy as he struggles to keep the fire
A little girl named Lucy discovers a secret portal to a mysterious land called Narnia. She mets a faun and is taken into a cave for tea and spounge cake. The rest of the siblings don 't believe her when she comes back telling them what happened. Her older brother Edmund finds himself coming into the land. He gets approached by the White witch to bring the rest of his siblings.
• The hero’s journey: Harry’s narrative follows an age-old pattern found in numerous myths and stories. American mythologist Joseph Campbell analyses this storyline of the journey of an archetypical hero in his book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” (Campbell, 1949), a work that has inspired many writers and artists. Classic examples of Campbell’s archetypical hero include ancient Greek myths such as that of the hero Odysseus, the story of Moses and Star Wars’ protagonist Luke Skywalker (cf. Colbert, 2008, 208).
Harry Potter is a modern-day character that infuses the historical importance of epic heroism with contemporary