The Journey Continues

George Lucas’s film Star Wars: A New Hope displays and follows the pattern of the hero’s journey as well as the implementation of various literary archetypes very well. All of Lucas’s characters represent an archetype and the plot line follows the hero’s journey. An archetype is defined as a prototype, a model or a classic example. In literature, archetypal characters are the “typical character patterns” you see. In Star Wars: A New Hope, you can clearly see these patterns. The main…

World Cycler and expert rower, Sarah Outen (https://twitter.com/SarahOuten) is an adventurer and traveler on wheels (and kayak), as she continues her London2London journey, cycling and rowing across the world. She was recently featured on Cycle Traveller (https://twitter.com/CycleTraveller) for her two wheeled cycling and kayaking escapades that have lasted over 4 years in the project. In the interview she talks about her accomplishments on her bike “Hercules” and the distance she has traveled,…

has various types of Stages that either have encouraged or disheartened the main character as he voyeurs out on his journey to complete his mission. The Alchemist is about a boy named, Santiago, who is a shepherd because he wanted to travel to various places with his sheep. That was until he had a reoccurring dream about treasure that was located in Egypt. He embarks on this journey after discussing with an old king who claims that it is his Personal Legend that he must accomplish. There are…

Life of Pi seems to distribute many teachings and themes to the reader during Pi’s 227-day journey in the Pacific Ocean. Yann Martel leaves it up to the reader to discover which lesson shall be valued the most. Martel uses journey in Life of Pi to achieve the message of thriving through unlikely circumstances is possible with belief and perseverance. Martel explains how Pi uses religion to aid him in his survival efforts. Pi is also fortunate enough to have experience with animals from past…

Life Of Pi Essay The book of “Life of Pi”, by Yann Martel is a novel of finding yourself through religion. The main character named Pi, believed in God and faith. He comes across a journey that showed him how to be a better person. The book shows how Pi struggled through deciding which religion is best for him. And learning how to survive when everything you had ever known is gone. The point I’m trying to prove is that readers can evaluate their own faith based on their own decisions. You can…

piece, A Worn Path can be interpreted as a story of a journey that has been previously traveled by the character. Phoenix even lends understanding to this concept when she provides evidence of her knowledge of the path. While traveling she thinks to herself, “Up through the pines….Now own through oaks.” (850) This statement clarifies that Phoenix is completely aware of all the components of her journey because she has continually made the journey, just as the phoenix continually relives its…

what can be achieved if they focus on reaching up to return to God through their life. Life has it tendency to bog us down and disrupt our trip back to God with all of the distractions and opportunities for us to sin. Dante begins his writing and journey as he is lost in a dark forest. He is wandering along in the dark and is seeking for a way to get up onto the top of a hill to be back out in the light. Dante decides that the fastest way to achieve this would to be leave the valley bottom…

In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Day”, Frost speaks of a person’s journey, in which he reconsiders the decision of the journey more than one time. At first, I thought the piece of poetry was quite simple, but then I realized what the speaker was doing. The speaker, using an iambic structure, tells us how keeping your mind set on your destination can help you to get there, however, sometimes we get fearful of what may happen for doing it but we can get even more fearful of what may…

The Hero’s Journey W.P. Inman, the main character of Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, undergoes a transformation during his Hero’s Journey. After being hospitalized from a bullet to the neck, Inman leaves through the hospital physically and spiritually wounded. Eventually, Inman begins his journey back to his hometown, Cold Mountain. The author wrote the novel through the critical lenses of archetypal criticism, often drawing parallels to Homer’s Odyssey (“Cold Mountain as a Spiritual Quest”)…

The Addition of Paraclete Throughout Christian’s journey in The Pilgrim’s Progress, he encounters countless dilemmas which often distract him from the path to the Celestial City. However, whenever an individual accompanies him or aids him, he prevails and acquires ever-increasing wisdom. If this individual constantly escorts Christian on his journey, it will be less probable for Christian to stumble or lose his way. John Bunyan should incorporate the character “Paraclete” into his allegory, The…