Pocahontas Hero's Journey

Linda Serger explains that in life we have these things called beats. These beats are included in day to day situations, movie, and in books. In the hero myth, the beats includes the following: “who the hero is, what the hero needs, and how the story and character interact in order to create a transformation.” In the Disney movie, Pochahontas, the main protagonist, Pocahontas, is the chief’s daughter who is about to be married to Kocoum and so they can both lead the tribe. Pocahontas goes through a tough decision with her love life and her relationship between her and her father, she goes through confusion. In simple movies like Pocahontas, Linda Serger’s beats are explained in such a simple way and hits most of the beats in such a simple children’s

She wants to know what her dreams meant to her. The first beat is “something new enters the hero’s life.” As Pocahontas takes one unsteady river, she meets John Smith. Pocahontas’s father told her to marry Kocoum, a strong and independent man in the tribe, Pocahontas did not want to lead the tribe with Kocoum. As John Smith and his crew came from England to discover land and for gold, Pocahontas was intrigued by the different skin colored people and equipment they had. Pocahontas’s father believed they were evil men. He forbade Pocahontas from going anywhere near the English men. As Linda Serger explains in her essay how something new enters the hero’s life, it is what stir ups the story into motion. Linda Serger explains that a catalyst sets the story. Pocahontas not only wants to obey her father but she also would like to see what the Americans have brought to their

For example, if it is a heroic movie, they will have these heroic myths. Linda Serger explains another beat is, “hero often hits rock bottom.” As Pocahontas was disobeying her father’s orders of not going anywhere near John Smith, she convinces her best friend to lie for her. Kocoum, Pocahontas’s future husband, goes following Pocahontas as she meets John Smith in secret. There Kocoum is killed by John’s best friend with a gun. This gun was a weapon the Native Americans have not seen. John Smith takes the blame for his friend for killing Kococum. As Pocahontas’s father hears about this, he is furious and tells the tribe, “John Smith will be killed at sundown.” Pocahontas hits that rock bottom feeling. All she was trying to do, form a union between the Native Americans and the English