Literature has become the expression of human's thought and emotion. The word literature is derived from Latin word Litteraturae which means “writings” (Abrams 177). According to Castle, literature is a written work which contain special form of language which are "more evocative and connotative than other forms of writing" (Castle 6). Thus, literature refers to the fictional and imaginative writings. Novel is one of literary works which contains interesting and imaginative sequence of actions that is presented in plot line. Through the series of events and conflicts in the novel, the reader is taken to a certain situation or period that occurs in the story.
Many stories of the novel deal with the life journey of the main character as a hero …show more content…
Campbell is a mythological researcher who wrote a book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces in 1949. Campbell as quoted in Vogler argues that the theme of hero's journey is universal that occurs in every culture and times (Vogler 4). He believes that all stories are fundamentally the same story that they all have similar kind of basic phases in the journeys of their main heroes. Campbell calls this repeated pattern of the hero's journey as Monomyth (Campbell 28). Monomyth is the universal structure of the mythological adventure of the hero that represents the cycle of …show more content…
Campbell explicates that there are few stories that gather all the seventeen stages, some of the stories comprise almost all the stages, while others put only a few (Mwai et al 222). It means that Monomyth is very flexible toward the sequence of the stages and how it occurs in hero’s journey. So that, the researcher will apply Monomyth as the theory on analyzing the hero’s journey.
The atmosphere of hero’s journey is also experienced by Magnus Chase, the hero in The Sword of Summer novel by Rick Riordan. The novel tells a story about Magnus Chase as a 16-year-old homeless and orphan boy. After his mother's death, he lives on the street in Boston. He always tries to survive and run away from the cops and social workers. Until one day, a man tells him a strange secret that he is a son of god. After his death and arrival in the Norse afterlife, Magnus finds that he is the son of Norse god named Frey. Magnus then has to face a Norse mythological creatures that want to end the
Many stories of the novel deal with the life journey of the main character as a hero …show more content…
Campbell is a mythological researcher who wrote a book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces in 1949. Campbell as quoted in Vogler argues that the theme of hero's journey is universal that occurs in every culture and times (Vogler 4). He believes that all stories are fundamentally the same story that they all have similar kind of basic phases in the journeys of their main heroes. Campbell calls this repeated pattern of the hero's journey as Monomyth (Campbell 28). Monomyth is the universal structure of the mythological adventure of the hero that represents the cycle of …show more content…
Campbell explicates that there are few stories that gather all the seventeen stages, some of the stories comprise almost all the stages, while others put only a few (Mwai et al 222). It means that Monomyth is very flexible toward the sequence of the stages and how it occurs in hero’s journey. So that, the researcher will apply Monomyth as the theory on analyzing the hero’s journey.
The atmosphere of hero’s journey is also experienced by Magnus Chase, the hero in The Sword of Summer novel by Rick Riordan. The novel tells a story about Magnus Chase as a 16-year-old homeless and orphan boy. After his mother's death, he lives on the street in Boston. He always tries to survive and run away from the cops and social workers. Until one day, a man tells him a strange secret that he is a son of god. After his death and arrival in the Norse afterlife, Magnus finds that he is the son of Norse god named Frey. Magnus then has to face a Norse mythological creatures that want to end the