Ordinary world: I wake up at six thirty every morning, shower, brush teeth, eat, ride the bus to school, learn some stuff, go home, do homeowrk, sit around, eat dinner, sit around some more, go to bed. Repeat
Call: I meet this girl...
Refusal: afraid to make my feelings known, scared of what her reaction might be
Mentor: some friends give advice on what to do
Tests, Allies, Enemies: I find myself unsure of what to do, unsure of weather my friends advice will help or not. worried about competition
Ordeal: I reveal my feelings to the girl, she rejects me at first but then changes her mind
Reward: I get the girl
The road back: the girl changes her mind again, she leaves me heartbroken and hopeless
eventually I recover and resume friendship with girl.
Return with elixir: come out with no girl but with acceptance and ready to move on
Monday, November 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Film/Book Analysis of Eragon
Ordinary World: Eragon is just a poor orphan living with his farmer uncle and cousin struggling
Call: Saphira's egg hatches for eragon making him a dragon rider. also his uncle is killed
Refusal: Eragon decides to run away
Mentor: Brom finds him before he leaves and decides to train him in the ways of magic and swordsmanship
Threshold: Eragon, brom, and saphira decide to hunt down and kill his uncle's killers, the ra'zac.
Tests, allies and enemies: Eragon becomes proficient in both magic and swordsmanship. The fight with urgals, encounter of durza, meeting murtagh and arya. the Varden.
Approach: finds out about the attack on farthen dur. makes preparations for war. saphira and eragon get armor. fortify and prepare for battle.
Ordeal: confronts durza, fights and wins with help of saphira and arya.
Reward: safety of farthen dur, no more shade.
Road back: mop up rest of urgal forces. prepares to go learn with the elves.
Resurrection: (starts to go over into the next book) learns of his scar from durza, severely cripples him. dragons remove for him.
Return with elixir: (since this is a 4 book series this might not be the best example) receives elven strength and agility. further instruction in magic and sword play. becomes more powerful.
Call: Saphira's egg hatches for eragon making him a dragon rider. also his uncle is killed
Refusal: Eragon decides to run away
Mentor: Brom finds him before he leaves and decides to train him in the ways of magic and swordsmanship
Threshold: Eragon, brom, and saphira decide to hunt down and kill his uncle's killers, the ra'zac.
Tests, allies and enemies: Eragon becomes proficient in both magic and swordsmanship. The fight with urgals, encounter of durza, meeting murtagh and arya. the Varden.
Approach: finds out about the attack on farthen dur. makes preparations for war. saphira and eragon get armor. fortify and prepare for battle.
Ordeal: confronts durza, fights and wins with help of saphira and arya.
Reward: safety of farthen dur, no more shade.
Road back: mop up rest of urgal forces. prepares to go learn with the elves.
Resurrection: (starts to go over into the next book) learns of his scar from durza, severely cripples him. dragons remove for him.
Return with elixir: (since this is a 4 book series this might not be the best example) receives elven strength and agility. further instruction in magic and sword play. becomes more powerful.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Ordinary world
A seventeen year old high school boy feels as if he is slipping further and further into a slow monotonous world of nothingness, he feels as if he does the same thing every day and there is no escape. If he keeps on like this everything he is will disappear until nothing is left but a boring machine. then one day he meets a girl. she is spontaneous, wild, and exciting. Can she bring him out of the bland abyss of nothingness before he is lost forever?
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Adaptation
Kryptonite (3 doors down)
Young George smith is slowly losing his mind.
He is worried that his only true love will leave him over it,
will he be able to get a grip on reality, and if not will his love stay with him?
Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
The wandering Rough Rider Jason stone is a wanted man, as he travels from town to town
pillaging and gambling his way to success, people get more and more desperate to stop him until
finally the sheriff decides it no longer matters if he is captured alive, or dead.
Pumped up kicks (foster the people)
Old man billy is fed up with kids playing on his lawn,
he decides it's time to bring his trusty shotgun "big betty," out of retirement,
now only one question remains, can the little kids with their pumped up kicks outrun his gun?
Young George smith is slowly losing his mind.
He is worried that his only true love will leave him over it,
will he be able to get a grip on reality, and if not will his love stay with him?
Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
The wandering Rough Rider Jason stone is a wanted man, as he travels from town to town
pillaging and gambling his way to success, people get more and more desperate to stop him until
finally the sheriff decides it no longer matters if he is captured alive, or dead.
Pumped up kicks (foster the people)
Old man billy is fed up with kids playing on his lawn,
he decides it's time to bring his trusty shotgun "big betty," out of retirement,
now only one question remains, can the little kids with their pumped up kicks outrun his gun?
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