Legend

seen the movie adaptation of a book you liked? If you remember it wasn’t like the original story in many ways. Since movies started being made, producers tried to translate popular stories to the big screen. Stories like Washington Irving’s ¨The Legend of Sleepy Hollow¨, ¨The Jilting of Granny Weatherall¨ by Katherine Anne Porter, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ¨Rappaccini’s Daughter are all examples of books that were put on a screen. For movie makers, stories by Modern and Contemporary authors…

that by traveling, watching and paying attention the world will help him find his personal legend. While giving the six sheep to Melchizedek he tells Santiago “god has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.” (pg 31-32) That is exactly what Santiago does therefore seeking his personal legend. Santiago also learns that giving up on one’s personal legend can be easy. He learns this when his money is stolen in the market place and he starts…

Garrett Hongo, earns his place as socially-driven poet from his countless commentaries and criticisms through poetry. Hongo, a Japanese-American born in Hawaii in 1951, culminates his 1988 The River of Heaven with the poem “The Legend.” Concluding the book of poems, “The Legend” pays tribute to an Asian-American, Jay Kashiwamura, whose unexpected death from an unknown gunman inspired Hongo to write a poem detailing Kashiwamura’s experience with underlying tones of the overarching lack of…

Schlosser retells the urban legend, “The Hook”. The urban legend starts off with a girl trying to decide on an outfit for her date while constant reports are being announced on the radio of a wild man who had escaped from the state asylum. The man on the loose was a killer who was being called “Hook Man” because his right arm was replaced with a hook. After picking out an outfit, the girl went out on a date with her boyfriend to a drive-in movie without paying much attention to the reports. The…

I chose the legend of John Henry, because this story was different from the rest, it wasn’t how an outlaw was actually good or how a royal child could have survived a planned attack, but it was the story of a man different from any other heros, that made him a legend. I read the three renditions of John Henry; The legend of John Henry, John Henry the poem, and John Henry the short film. All of these plots are closely related, but are in a different format than the others and they have different…

La Llorana is a very well-known and widespread urban legend in Mexico and has become just as prevalent in America with the Mexican-American cultural influence of the media, such as horror movies, TV series, and novels. This legend has been passed down from generation to generation as part of the tradition embedded in the Mexican culture and as a result, there are many different interpretations of La Llorana, such as what she looks like as well as what her story is. The fact is this myth is only…

I think the legend of the Erl King is just a coincidence. I do not think muggles actually know about the existence of Erklings. The child in the legend only said that the creature was an “elf king” and did not describe the creature any further. Erklings are related to elves but there are also differences that the child may have mentioned in the story if he actually had seen an Erkling. For example, an Erkling has a very pointy face. It is a very distinct feature. The legend of the “Erl King”…

The movie “I Am Legend,” a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, directed by Francis Lawrence in 2007, is regarded as one of the most popular modern vampire-like creature films. It is also credited as the main influence to portray vampires as the characters we know nowadays. Of course, it is not the first time that the concept of a ‘living vampire’ is used in the film industry, and this is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend in 1954, which was published after…

There was a guy who had never met his natural father in one village. He lived in peace. He often went out and adventured into forests or mountains with a friend of his as kids do out of their curiosity. His name is Riku. He spent most of time with the friend. His name is Heracles. He was so courageous and that he had beaten a great number of monsters that used to threaten people in their village. He was also well-known as a son of Zeus. His father was a son of Cronos and ruled as a king of gods.…

Bill was the member of the cult Golden Pharaohs. One day he decided to leave and start his own cult. He started a cult with his friend, Geoff, who is now another member of the cult. He named the group “The Followers of Lazarus”. The cult made a home in the side of a mountain where a cave was. He then recruits people from all over the world. He gets a lot of members and teaches them his ways. One day he invited a group of travelers and they said no. They believed the true lord is “Ezekiel the…