This week I learned a lot about the structure of many of the popular movies and novels. The movies and novel follow a structure that works for many stories. Really people enjoy the same thing over and over. They want to see a hero rise from nothing and go on an adventure to later receive a reward. I feel like we truly want this to be us. I really enjoyed Star Wars: The New Hope and it fit perfectly in the Heroes Journey graphic organizer. This proved to be true with Harry Potter and the Hunger Games. The heroes journey consists to the Call, which is the call for the adventure the hero will go on, the threshold which is the guardian who helps the hero on his journey, the challenges which and the challenges that the hero faces on his journey, then we have the abyss which is the main action where the hero faces death, the transformation where the hero is starting to find his true self, the revelation where the hero has the has a new way of thinking forever, the atonement where the hero find ones self and is comfortable with the change, and finally the change there the hero is gifted something and has a completely different view on life. This is the heroes journey, it applies to almost every hero novel or movie. This is what makes a good story.
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March 2015
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