The "flying saucer" is trying to get revenge, sucking me down into it and my legs refuse to kick. I feel myself sinking. “Grab him,” an old man yells in Swedish. “Quick before he sinks.” As I hit a wooden deck and my eyes open and the sky fills with fire, noise, and smoke, then I drift back slowly into…
Generosity is a characteristic that all heroes have, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing the things to make them heroes. In the poem, Beowulf is begged by Hrothgar to protect his people from Grendel and Beowulf agrees to help. Similar to this, Superman could have went back to his home planet, Krypton, where he was first born. He decides to stay on Earth and protect the people there even though they did not accept Superman.…
Grade 8, Unit 1, EA 1: Writing a Hero's Journey Narrative Sustainably Adam was just your regular 15 year old boy. But today something rustled in the back of his mind that reminded him innocence is not forever. It took but half of the day for troubling news to reach him of his sister’s death, and the implications that came with that. But so much more was on the horizon. Suddenly Adam’s world felt more suffocating than anything else, even though attached to his mouth was a perfectly functioning oxygen generator.…
My Epic Hero Journey In this essay I will be deliberating my threshold transition when I am thirty years. I will include five to seven decisions that will change my perspective about life. My five to seven decisions will include me making good grades, A friends death, moving out, marriage, college, and having children. Buy the time I am thirty…
Joseph Campbell was a scholar who studied ancient mythology for many years. He came up with the idea of the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey says that all the heroes will come across many processes throughout their journey. Each of the processes gets the hero closer to his/her prize. Perhaps I am not a hero, but I have experienced many things on leaving my home state and coming to a foreign one.…
Ever on and on I continue circling With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing And suddenly I see that I can't break free— I'm Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity With nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony To tell me who I am, who I was…
Over the years and years spent on studying mythology, Joseph Campbell came up with the concept of The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey states that all hero’s travel in a similar path and go through many similar stages that’ll lead them to their reward. However, not every hero’s journey has to involve obstacles as in slaying a dragon or trying to save the world. In my case, I had to do nothing but trying to make it through sixth grade year. Sadly, sixth grade was the year that I faced the most challenges, real world challenges at least.…
A Hero's Journey The last month of summer before my junior year started was occupied with pondering and wondering what I wanted to accomplish during the upcoming school year. Sure, junior year sounds like a blast, filled with fun memories and friends. But it also doubles as approaching the cliff of adulthood that I would hit in two short years. Every step I take my junior and senior year will be one step closer to that ledge.…
The stage of a hero's journey I associate with to the most is stage five. I associate with this because I meet new people every day and some turn out to be a whole lot friendlier than others. As a result of this, I have made numerous allies and enemies throughout the years. One example is that in second grade I was transferred to another class along with two other girls. Those two girls ended up being my best friends for six years.…
Joseph Campbell, the creator of the hero’s journey, did a lot of research on ancient mythology. He discovered that many heroes travel the same paths to becoming a hero. Campbell decided that heroes come across many challenges that are put into stages and in those stages the hero grows closer to the reward at the end. I am definitely not a hero, but my journey of finding Christ and giving my life to him has absolutely made me into a better person overall. As I look at my journey of finding Christ, I see that it has many similarities to Campbell’s Hero’s Journey.…
The aroma of uncertainty surrounded the paramedics in the helicopter. The twenty-minute ride felt like a lifetime and in that lifetime it had me wondering about how this happened. How could I let this happen? It all started one weekend when I went camping for three days with my best friends, Michael and Carrie. Our youth group took us on a trip so we could strengthen our friendships and connect with new friends.…
A few years ago I remember walking home from school. Mind you I thought I was very handsome back in those days, I had soft, dark brown hair, I went to the gym every day, I was fit and healthy, personally I thought I was a ladies man and I still am (I think). Anyways, I was almost home…
In third grade, a boy named Blake - a notorious troublemaker - would chase every girl during class trying to kiss her on the lips. Most of the girls gave in eventually. It was easier to give in than to keep running. When it was my day to be chased, I turned to him, grabbed his glasses off his pudgy face, and stomped on them in front of all the kids on the blacktop. He ran to the principal's office and cried.…
To be a hero doesn't mean someone needs to save your life or stop something bad from happening; they just have to be someone you can look up to. When I was told I needed to write about a Michigan hero, I was so stumped. A family member, a friend, a teacher? Then my teacher finally said something: a coach. The dictionary definition of coach is ¨An athletic instructor or trainer.¨ To me, my coach is more than that.…
Being a seventeen year old mother of two beautiful babies has taught me so many new things and also made me mature a lot faster. I have a 1 ½ year old little prince and a 3 week old little princess. We still live at home with my dad and two sisters. I just started my senior year I Cal-Safe and I will be finishing next month.…