girl from District Twelve in post-apocalyptic earth, who faces many trials and terrors when she is sent to participate in the annual Hunger Games. The formula, also known as The Hero’s Journey, is seen all throughout this story. The method begins with ‘The Call,’ or when something calls the main character to make the journey or quest that he or she is about to go on. In this novel, Katniss, who possesses a great ability to hunt, is called when representatives from the capitol of her world come to
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number of common patterns linked between multiple myths and stories spread all over the world. Thus, giving way to the composition of his book. The “hero’s journey” can be described as the various stages or phases that pretty much every hero-quest experiences, with no regard to what culture the myth plays a part in. Put more explicitly, the “hero’s journey” is an adventure the person known as “the hero” takes on behalf of the
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Harry Potter the Hero’s Journey Lucas Damron Block 3 In the first Harry Potter, our young friend is put to the ultimate hero’s journey through a series of courageous events that shape him into the perfect archetypal hero. Harry Potter thinks himself, in his dull, muggle( non-magical ) household, to just be a burdened orphan child to his impudent aunt and uncle. Little does Harry know of his importance and great idolism in the magical world, a role he will soon find out. Harry’s
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“Good luck in America, the traders cat-called. Hope you survive and serve your masters well, but not that we care what happens to you!” Nadia had never felt so alone. She was chained by both ankles and both hands remaining upright. It was a perilous journey with raging storms at sea and the rowdy fights that often occurred. She was beaten, forlorn, and hoping that life in America would be better conditions than these. But of course that wouldn’t be the case she was a slave and nobody wanted to help slaves
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The calm glistening water brought about a serenity that couldn’t be explained... one could get lost staring into its depths. It had a way of conjuring up happy thought and memories that one could bask in, leaving behind whatever fears, worries, doubt or anger had been plaguing the mind… at least it usually did this for her, but today was different. She sat in the enclosed space by the river that had come to be a form of haven for her. She had stumbled upon it by accident four years ago when she
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Bahauddin squeezed his head out of the small enclosed chimney as The light pierced his eye lids until they opened. The sun scorched his skin and reflected of his keys reminding that he had a mission. He had to use the seven keys to open the treasure that the two cities have been fighting about to win the war. He scanned the area seeing one thing, never ending piles of sand. Bahadin realized if he was ever going to make it back he would have to start now. Bahaddin scraped his feet across the desert
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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
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A Hero’s Journey with Odysseus Of all literature works read thus far, the Odyssey full fills the hero’s journey in all aspects of the story. Throughout this story there are vivid examples of how the hero’s journey is outlined. From the beginning of “the hero’s journey”, which is the call to adventure Odysseus will begin his journey when he makes the choice of going into battle in the Trojan War. There will also be specific events in this epic story to display “the hero’s journey” even further
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Did you know that almost every hero's journey has 3 parts. They have the departure, the initiation, and the return. The hero Hercules went through all these phases during his journey. In summary of the movie Hercules. He is taken from olympus and has his powers taken away making him mortal. He then grows up realizing he has super strength because some of the god powers still lingered and he sets out to become a god again by becoming a true hero. He does this by defeating hades and making sure everyone
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Tired from the day, she dozes off to travel through her dreams. Gliding upon a current of air, Australia appears and she is viewing the scenery and sights. Continuing onward she is dropping in for a glance at every temple site. Next, making her way to China to visit the Great Wall, and then gazing longingly down upon Russia, Africa, India, France, Egypt, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Suddenly, her imagination is brought to an abrupt halt. She is awakened by the high pitched bleep bleep bleep of
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