...mediums and techniques in order to represent similar ideas about journeys. Journeys can lead to self-growth. Choice, change, discoveries and new experiences can all result in having undertaken a journey. Shaun Tan and Robert Frost have each explored these ideas in their texts The Arrival and The Road Not Taken. In Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken, Frost conveys his perspective on the journey through the use of a variety of language techniques. Journeys involve choices, which can slightly or significantly alter the paths we take in life as the poem consists of two roads which metaphorically represent choices. “ Two roads diverged ... and that has made all the difference” demonstrates how the author has learned to take responsibility for the choices he has made in life and is content that choices make who we are. Robert Frost uses several techniques such as metaphors, repetition and symbolism. Repetition displays the character’s frustration towards making choices and symbolism shows the unseeable end to this path being taken. The main technique used is metaphor as the whole poem represents the journey of life and the choices that are a part of it. The journeys in life we take can lead to choices that change our life forever. Throughout a journey an individual must make a variety of choices. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost clearly shows the composer’s thoughts on making choices throughout a journey. In the first stanza of the poem it says, “ Two roads diverged in...
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...People may discover numerous things when they take journeys. However, the most signigicant, by far, are the things that they learn about themselves: their strengths, their weaknesses, their preferences, their moral values, what they possess, what they wish to possess, and so on. For instance, in “The Cruelest Journey”, Kira Salak states,”If a journey doesn't have something to teach you about yourself, then what kind of journey is it?” As an adventurer, Salak becomes aware of the fact that challenging oneself is done in order to test one's strength and grit. While on journeys, people may learn the strength of their willpower and overcome that of those who deter and doubt them. If somebody's perseverance is weaker than their fear, they will...
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...Thane of Cawdor. Everything in Macbeth’s future seems to have been planned out perfectly. Macbeth is to be Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king thereafter. At least, this seems to be the case until he runs over one problem: If Duncan is king, then how is it that Macbeth could also be king? This question is resolved by killing Duncan. What Macbeth does not realize is his actions will not be followed by a happy life ever after, but instead several repercussions. From this point on, Macbeth’s life changes dramatically. In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth transforms from a hero to tyrant due to belief in unnatural occurrences and over ambition, which leads to disruption of the natural world. Macbeth’s first step on his journey towards evil occurs when he meets the Weird Sisters and they prophesize what is to come of Macbeth’s future. When Macbeth arrives to talk to the Weird Sisters, they hail Macbeth, “Thane of Glamis”, “Thane of Cawdor” and “king hereafter.” Macbeth is hesitant to believe what the witches tell him, until Ross and Angus announce the news to Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor. As Macbeth says later, “If the first is true, the second and third must also be true.” From here the reader sees Macbeth start to accept his fate and “get into character.” This scene is the beginning of Macbeth’s road to evil due to his belief in what was fated to him by the Weird Sisters and leads Macbeth to believe he is invincible. Feeding off of the three witches’...
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...Cheerleading and traveling have always been important parts of my life. Getting to do both was a dream come true and an amazing opportunity. Getting to cheer in a different country was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It all started at cheer camp the summer of 2016. It was the beginning of a new season and everyone was ready to get things started. At cheer camp, we do a lot of different things such as work on our jumps, learn a new cheer routine and work on a dance. The whole week of cheer camp I worked really hard because I wanted a spot on the All-American team. Every day we would go over the routine a couple times before learning something new. I would work on the routine every night after camp was over in order to make sure I had the routine memorized. By the end of the camp, it was time to see if everything that I had been working on paid off. Tryouts were set up where three girls would dance at the same time. At the end of the day, she would evaluate everyone before making the final decision. After a lot of hard work, I was announced as one of the All-American cheerleaders that were going on the trip to London. It was an amazing opportunity and I knew that I couldn’t pass it up. The dance routine that we learn during the week is what we use at the end of the camp to try out for a position on the All-American Cheer Team. If you are accepted as an All-American cheerleader, you are required to fill out forms in order to have a placement in the program. There are...
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...Enrique’s Journey follows a 17-year-old boy’s dangerous voyage to reunite with his mother. Throughout the story there is a recurring theme of abandonment, seen as an impossible choice that is forced upon each generation. Another prominent theme is perception versus reality, the ease of idealizing what we do not have, and later realizing that it is not what we had hoped. The story begins when Lourdes, a single mother, decides to leave her children, Enrique and Belky, in Honduras, hoping to make enough money in the United State to support them. Lourdes loves her children and that is why she was willing to miss out on their childhood in order to support them. Although Lourdes understood that her move was more beneficial than detrimental for her...
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...The function and purpose of the hero’s journey is to draw the hero out of their accustomed and to be aware of their purpose in life. Campbell describes the hero’s journey as “the heroic self seeks an exacting spiritual countenance that is, a higher way of holding and conducting oneself” (Campbell xxiv). Through the journey heroes will prevail over the challenges that are unfamiliar. However, the challenges pose a as a rite of passage for the hero to leave behind the old aspects of themselves and take the experience they underwent to become a new refined version of themselves. By way of illustration, Campbell includes this tale “I saw that my friend, Fraulein Elsa, was within; she wanted to reach me her hand, over the gate. But the watchman...
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...In his memoir A Brother’s Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse, Richard B. Pelzer commemorates his abusive childhood as well as the childhood of his four other brothers. By reflecting on how his mother treated and abused him, Pelzer hopes to increase awareness of home abuse and encourage adults to grasp an understanding and appreciation of what they have as parents. Pelzer’s memoir begins in his early childhood and continues into his teen years. He and his family lived in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area in a small, bright pink house. He lived with four brothers – Ross, Scott, Keith, and David—and his father had left their family early in his life. His mother was always in need of a scapegoat to blame all of her problems on and...
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...Every hero embarks on a journey of notable trials and distinguishable tribulations. Every journey contains its plethora of characters and people met along the way. Each character differently contributes to the progression of the hero’s journey. However, despite the various alternate names, places, objects, amongst an abundance of other features of a journey, or the magnitude of the conflict in the journey, every journey and character innately reflect a small piece of the collective template that Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero's Journey,” or in some cases, “The 17-Stage Monomyth,” accurately precedes. The Hero’s Journey, according to Campbell’s work in The Hero of a Thousand Faces, is the predominant “nuclear unit”(Campbell 23) of all narratives...
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...Analysis of “The Journey to the Brothers’ Farm” Sometimes in life, something so terrible happens to you that it haunts you for the rest of your life. Even though it happened long ago, it might still feel, as though it is fresh in your memory. This is the kind of burden that has weighted on Annelie Louw’s shoulders for thirty years and when faced with her demon she makes a drastic decision. A first person narrator tells Pippa Gough’s ‘The Journey to the Brother’s Farm’. We follow the narrator Annelie Louw’s flashbacks to her childhood, and her description of what took place at the Brothers’ Farm as she writes her statement about the event to the police. The first person narrator is often unreliable and Annelie lies in her sworn statement, which suggests that she is too, at least for the police. However, the short story focuses upon the protagonist’s feelings about a specific event, and as we follow her thoughts and she does not seem to be in any form of denial, she is trustworthy to the reader. The composition of the story is based around the protagonist’s statement, and it is not arranged in a chronological order, but jumps back and forth between the statement and her memories. This gives the reader an insight into Annelie’s thoughts and feelings about the event that is not visible in the police statement. The story largely follows the Hollywood-model, with the childhood flashback as a prelude and her memories until she meets Thabo and the small sequences from...
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... A teenage boy just old enough to drive, found himself sitting in a church pew, singing familiar hymns and listening to the Southern Baptist preacher bring the message to the congregation. Logan Denson felt this tug at his heart strings and knew it was the Lord calling him to preach. Because of his young age, Denson ran from the calling. Months later, Denson attended a youth revival, where he heard one of his friends preaching. The friend also got the call to preach at a young age. “If a 16 year-old can do it,” Denson said. “Surely I can do it.” Denson said after the youth revival, he spoke to his home church pastor about exploring his possibilities as a pastor. Denson said his pastor helped him a lot during these growing years, but he still had a long way to go. In May 2015, Denson preached his first sermon at his home church, Liberty Baptist. His mother had a special Mother’s Day as she got to hear her son share the gospel in front of a congregation for the first time. Denson’s relationship with God was soon to be tested as he moved out of his comfort zone of his own hometown and home church and into the college lifestyle. During Denson’s junior year of high school, he started to get recruited by the University of West Alabama’s track and field coach, Ray Stanfield. Denson traveled to UWA with a friend to watch a volleyball game. This trip was the icing on the cake in making the decision on where to attend college. “It really just felt like home,” Denson said. ...
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...Your eyes are glued to the screen. Your feet pressed to the ground as if you were trying to make the very earth move. This movie that you have started watching was something you were able to relate to. We all have that special movie that takes us out of our physical world and into the movie you are watching. We feel what they feel. We can see what they see. We can connect with the characters. Out of the three movie clips of “The Hero’s Journey” I could relate to Luke in Star Wars. He is a young man that must grow into adulthood, experiences hardships, and has a set of determination. Part of human life is to grow and develop. We grow close to people that love us and people we love. Luke is no different to me in this aspect. At the beginning of the...
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...What do you think about Chris’s story? The hero’s journey or classical tragedy? I think the hero’s journey is the great example to describe Chris’s lifetime. The hero’s journey define to me as a person who goes on an adventure, and solves every troubles, and then comes home with changed, transformed, and understanding. Chris’s life is born to be differ than others. Due to his curiosity about nature,rebelliousness to his parents,and the stubbornness to his own thoughts, that is how he had the decision to go to Alaska. Doing something that normal person wouldn't do. In the book, Into the Wild, there are various similar things you can find compare to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, such as departure, initiation, and return. Departure, it define as to start from somewhere. This is where the hero’s journey circle start. Under the stage of departure, we can also find “call to adventure.” It is related to Chris’s story because Chris wanted to run away from his life as he felt it wasn't what he wanted to do. He just want to know his reason for living and search for new passion that will inspire him to once again live in happiness. I think there are two reasons that effected...
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...Visual Analysis “Farm Journal” normally targets farmers because farmers are the ones that generally receive and read the magazine. This causes the ads in “Farm Journal” to be heavily agriculturally based. The company Ag Leader Technology that deals with the development of new technology that helps farmer’s jobs easier and more efficient created the ad that I choose to analysis. The name of the product that Ag Leader’s ad is for is called SeedCommand. The ad also explains what the SeedCommand does in text right below the tractor. The SeedCommand helps farmers manage the planting operations. SeedCommand helps to prevent overlapping seed, increase accuracy in seed spacing, automatic row shutoff, and advance seed monitoring. This ad from “Farm Journal” for SeedCommand forces the audience, mostly farmers, to view planting in whole new different light. With prices for high yielding seed not getting any cheaper, farmers cannot afford overlapping, inaccurate spacing, and misses when planting the expensive seed. The ad suggests that the SeedCommand could become the sidekick that helps the farmers saves the crop season and become the hero. It suggest this because the tractor and planter sit in what appears to be a dead and dried up field however with the sun setting in the background it seems to portray it as the thing that could come in and save the crop at the last minute. The tractor resembles a hot rod or high performance vehicle. This suggests that with SeedCommand the tractor...
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...Hero’s Journey James Shin The Hero’s Journey, or the Monomyth, is a simple universal pattern that contains many elements found in mythical adventures The Hero’s Journey can be found in many books or movies, but each story can still maintain originality. In every Journey, the hero of the story must travel to and conquer a strange new world while he himself undergoes fundamental transformation. Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game showcases aspects to the Journey of the Hero because Ender leaves his home on Earth, overcomes Battle School, and emerges from the war a hero to the people on Earth. Before Ender arrives to Battle School, Colonel Graff is a guide that assists Ender by initiating the journey, who then overcomes his first challenge...
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...The Hero’s Journey has been used in cinemas ever since the beginning of films. Laurence Coupe states that the Hero’s Journey had a patter that “was threefold: departure, struggle and return – or, to use Campell's terms, 'call to adventure', 'crossing the threshold of adventure' and 'return with elixir', Every film uses those three parts; separation/departure, initiation, and return. These there sections are shown in two movies; Divergent, which was released in 2014, and The Princess Bride, which was released in 1987. The first section is known as the separation or departure. This is when the hero has a call to adventure, but they refuse the call. Later on in the story they accepts the call and cross the threshold with mentors and companions to help them along on their journey. Divergent follows each point of the separation/departure very closely. Beatrice has her call to adventure when she goes in to take her aptitude test on...
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