The Adventure of the Final Problem

When reading a novel that is an adventure, thriller, horror, or even a different genre the main story line usually involves some aspect of the Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is a concept created by Joseph Campbell to relay stories in a certain pattern. There are twelve stages to the Hero’s Journey but seven main ones. These main stages are the call to adventure, refusal of the call, crossing the threshold, ordeal, reward, resurrection hero and finally, coming back with an elixir. (Science…

failed him in the second grade. Pat worked with a construction company earning enough money to enroll at Washington State University. He achieved Fs on his first six essays as a freshman. A professor of English inspired Pat to become a writer. For his final essay he passed with an A+ and was advanced to Honors English. From then on he became focused on writing. After college he was offered a job as a police reporter for The Daily Olympian. He became an editor at the University, while working on…

“Disliking Books” by professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois Gerald Graff outlines his belief that debate gives rise to critical thinking. First, he recounts his childhood aversion to books due to not being able to find their application and potentially being beaten up by his peers for indulging in them. Frustrated, Graff’s father attempts to force him to read many different books. Once he enters college, where similar boys are expected to get serious, he aimlessly…

journeys in order to reach their goals, which they never ended up accomplishing. Tom Sawyer, the main character in the book, “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer”, demonstrates a variety of characteristics. First of all, Tom is a very big goof off and doesn’t take things seriously. He is known to do many futile and indiscreet things. Therefore, he causes ongoing problems which only leads to his own failures. A second characteristic of Tom is that he is very ignorant.…

In Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” A young white boy named “Huck”and a runaway slave take on an amazing and risky adventure down the mississippi River in search of freedom. But as we see later throughout the story “Huck” is constantly being trapped and controlled, not only physically but within himself. Huck and the runaway slave will learn that the human soul cannot be tamed or controlled; Freedom is more than Physical; It is mental-it is emotional. The conflict within Huck…

journey is the layout of which a hero’s adventure starts and comes to an end. This is a common template used by writers in their stories. The hero’s journey can be seen in many different historic literature and continues through today’s literature. Homer’s the Odyssey and the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew, are both examples of the Hero’s journey being used in ancient literature. Through the Hero’s journey, the hero will go through twelve steps to complete their adventure. The first step to a hero’s…

Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a series of amazing books that keep the readers on the edge of their seats from the start to the very end. However, Sherlock Holmes and the Gospel are two different genres that cannot be intertwined. Nevertheless, Kendrick's book, “Holy clues: The gospel according to Sherlock Holmes,” manages to establish a link between the two genres in a rather clever way. While Holmes was not a preacher of any sorts, Kendrick shows that…

keep his stepdaughter’s money as well. As long as his stepdaughter, Mary Sutherland, remains unmarried and lives at home he has access to her money. He prevents Miss Sutherland from marrying by pretending to be her lover. In another case, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Helen Stoner comes to Holmes because she feels threatened by her stepfather. Helen’s twin sister suffered a sudden violent death before she was to be married. Helen is now engaged to be married, and has been moved into…

myth have the same ideas. Also so that heroes adventures are nearly identical in their shape. The hero’s Journey is different stages of adventure that can be found in movies, myths, and religious rituals. George Lucas’s science fiction film Star Wars and Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World clearly displays hero’s journey. In the film and novel, Luke Skywalker and John the Savage is the heroes that go through this journey. The first stage of adventure in the hero’s journey is the ordinary world.…

children mature, escape recedes, and slowly reveals reality. In literature, the thematic archetypal process of "coming of age" situates an immature character residing within an escape, and their growth to existing within a mature reality. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn however, Mark Twain refutes the archetype's linear progression with Huck, a thirteen-year-old on the verge of breaking from childhood. Huck does not 'come of age', but rather vacillates in an internal conflict between the…