You can find the Hero's Journey in the great book The Giver. The Giver is a story about a complex community that is based on daily routine. They know only know few things and have no feelings. Death means nothing to them, neither does pain or suffering. Everyone and everything is the same. There is no superiors or conflicts.
Among all the people in this communityis Jonas. Jonas is a young boy who is like the others, until the celebration of 12. At the age of 12 he realizes he is chosen to be receiver. He will have lessons with the Giver to receive painful and joyful memories that the rest of the community knows nothing about.
The initiation is when Jonas begins his classes. When he recieves his first memory. When he starts to know the whole other world is the initiation. The Giver to me is what we call the mentor.He teaches and guides Jonas in his Journey.
When the creator comes in is when Jonas becomes different. As he starts to think differently and realize more things. The Creator created a new Jonas. At the end of all this changing within Jonas you find his transformation. Now he has completely transformed.
Now Jonas has a calling. His calling is to let the community know whats out there. It is also to go out and find himself. So he decides to save another life and begin another journey. He leaves the comfort of his home and the company of his family. This is the seperation.
As Jonas leaves on his bicycle he rides into the abyss. He does'nt knowwhat lies ahead. That's why its the abyss becuase it is a mystery to him. His Descent is also apart of this Jonas has left in hopes to find a better place.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Nestor Rodriguez: Final Essay: Hero's Journey
The Hero’s journey is all about a hero that in which he encounters magic, monsters and difficult obstacles in order to achieve his mission or dream. In the book The Giver. Jonas Is born with a special gift that no one knows about but the Giver. He is very different from the society he lives in. He starts going through different things in life like feelings, which no one else has felt it. He wants to express how he feels to people but he can’t because no one else has felt anything like what he’s feeling.
Jonas goes through the most unexpected tasks that on other person could’ve imagined. He starts feeling pain, love, joy, happiness, and violence. He stays strong and keeps going at his task. He experiences very harsh images and pain. He starts having visions of what war is and what peace is too.
Jonas encounters images of prisoners escape and he starts thinking what would happen if he ran away with the memories. The giver told Jonas a story about what had happened in the past with the thought to be receiver. Readers doubt that Jonas will not be strong enough to do what he is going to have to do. He sees how people are released and it really brings him pain and sadness followed by anger. He doesn’t like what he has to go through so he starts planning out what he’s going to do with his little brother Gabe.
Now knowing the pain that the community commits, he releases memories to Gabe and the whole community. He decides to run away with Gabe along his side to save him. He feels guilt about holding everything back, which a hero also has to go through, just so that everyone does not experience any emotional feelings or pain.
Jonas’s acts in this book give him the courage and strength of what a hero is. His intelligence allows him to know what to expect when he runs away. Even fear grows inside of him but that’s what makes a hero a hero. His journey consisted of pain, love and everything that made him strong, just to save one person.
Jonas goes through the most unexpected tasks that on other person could’ve imagined. He starts feeling pain, love, joy, happiness, and violence. He stays strong and keeps going at his task. He experiences very harsh images and pain. He starts having visions of what war is and what peace is too.
Jonas encounters images of prisoners escape and he starts thinking what would happen if he ran away with the memories. The giver told Jonas a story about what had happened in the past with the thought to be receiver. Readers doubt that Jonas will not be strong enough to do what he is going to have to do. He sees how people are released and it really brings him pain and sadness followed by anger. He doesn’t like what he has to go through so he starts planning out what he’s going to do with his little brother Gabe.
Now knowing the pain that the community commits, he releases memories to Gabe and the whole community. He decides to run away with Gabe along his side to save him. He feels guilt about holding everything back, which a hero also has to go through, just so that everyone does not experience any emotional feelings or pain.
Jonas’s acts in this book give him the courage and strength of what a hero is. His intelligence allows him to know what to expect when he runs away. Even fear grows inside of him but that’s what makes a hero a hero. His journey consisted of pain, love and everything that made him strong, just to save one person.
Dulce Ruiz Final Exam Eassy
The hero's journey is based on a hero that goes through tragic, happiness, sadness, and pain. They face fear and still go through it without giving up. They reach for there goals, and achieve there dreams.
In my perspective The Giver is a really good example for the heros journey. Jonas in this case was part of the heros journey. Jona was born with different colored eyes, he was unique young boy because he experiencd unusal things from everyone else. He was afraid of not being able to get a task because he does not know what he belongs in.
When Jonas starts to feel unusal feelings he trys to let his parents know about it, but they really don't seem to care. Once he gets a sign as a reciever of memory he starts going into images he's never been through in his life, pain, love, happiness, and violence.
The end of his journey could be represented in two ways. The reason for this is because you don't really know if he dies at the end. You don't know if the images he see of the houses and christmas lights are rally there or if it's just a memory, an image he recieved.
This heros journey was well represented. It had everything a hero would actually go through. In my perspective this ws one of the best books i've read and has all the parts in a heros journey.
In my perspective The Giver is a really good example for the heros journey. Jonas in this case was part of the heros journey. Jona was born with different colored eyes, he was unique young boy because he experiencd unusal things from everyone else. He was afraid of not being able to get a task because he does not know what he belongs in.
When Jonas starts to feel unusal feelings he trys to let his parents know about it, but they really don't seem to care. Once he gets a sign as a reciever of memory he starts going into images he's never been through in his life, pain, love, happiness, and violence.
The end of his journey could be represented in two ways. The reason for this is because you don't really know if he dies at the end. You don't know if the images he see of the houses and christmas lights are rally there or if it's just a memory, an image he recieved.
This heros journey was well represented. It had everything a hero would actually go through. In my perspective this ws one of the best books i've read and has all the parts in a heros journey.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Alejandro saldana
Search A Word
The word that I picked up to define is courage. The definition for courage is to state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicisstudes with self-possesion and resolution. My own definition for courage is you are to do anything with out fear or scared. the origin for courage came from Old French. Three languages for courage is in spanish-valores, Middle English-corage, Latin-cor. The history of its use is that it came from Old French and it started to spread out and people saying it.
I used the word in a movie that is called Whale Rider. Its a movie about a little girl rides a whale and that she does everything behind her grandpas back. The grandpa dont want her to get involve what the boys are doing. I think that she has courage to ride on a whale and do everything behind her grandpas back. I used the word in a book called The giver. The book is all about when a little boy could get memorys from the giver and that he had courage to get pain from the memorys that the giver gived him and I think he had courage for that.
Thier were some Internet Sights that they had the word . The first one was www.clomedia.com and the senyence was courage is a big word when was the lats time you alttered the word or said now thats courage. The other internet sight is www.siriusdog.com tthe setence before we get into the description of how the courage test is performed and why it is needed, you should know some thing about were in coming from. The last internet sight that i saw is www.amazon.com the sentence was the language of courage and inner strength: A wonderful gift to inspiring thoughts.
The quotes that i found in the internet was the author named Ambrose Redmoon and his quote said courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something esle is more important than fear. The second author is Andre Gide and his quote says man cannot discover, men oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the share. The third author is Carl Herman Voss his quote says courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage also what it takes to sit down and listen. The fourth author is Corra Harris and his quote says the barrest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
The word that I choosed was that my family had courage to do anything. My family has not been affraid of anything like getting in to fights or doing something. At the other hand is that i am a friendly guy but if some one is talking stuff at me i need to do something or he will be calling me some stuff and i will not like it. It had been in my history becuase my grandpa had courage becuase he ran away from the cpos and any thing he ran for. I picked this word becuase i wanted to tell you how i wrote the word and wrote all about it.
The word that I picked up to define is courage. The definition for courage is to state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicisstudes with self-possesion and resolution. My own definition for courage is you are to do anything with out fear or scared. the origin for courage came from Old French. Three languages for courage is in spanish-valores, Middle English-corage, Latin-cor. The history of its use is that it came from Old French and it started to spread out and people saying it.
I used the word in a movie that is called Whale Rider. Its a movie about a little girl rides a whale and that she does everything behind her grandpas back. The grandpa dont want her to get involve what the boys are doing. I think that she has courage to ride on a whale and do everything behind her grandpas back. I used the word in a book called The giver. The book is all about when a little boy could get memorys from the giver and that he had courage to get pain from the memorys that the giver gived him and I think he had courage for that.
Thier were some Internet Sights that they had the word . The first one was www.clomedia.com and the senyence was courage is a big word when was the lats time you alttered the word or said now thats courage. The other internet sight is www.siriusdog.com tthe setence before we get into the description of how the courage test is performed and why it is needed, you should know some thing about were in coming from. The last internet sight that i saw is www.amazon.com the sentence was the language of courage and inner strength: A wonderful gift to inspiring thoughts.
The quotes that i found in the internet was the author named Ambrose Redmoon and his quote said courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something esle is more important than fear. The second author is Andre Gide and his quote says man cannot discover, men oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the share. The third author is Carl Herman Voss his quote says courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage also what it takes to sit down and listen. The fourth author is Corra Harris and his quote says the barrest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
The word that I choosed was that my family had courage to do anything. My family has not been affraid of anything like getting in to fights or doing something. At the other hand is that i am a friendly guy but if some one is talking stuff at me i need to do something or he will be calling me some stuff and i will not like it. It had been in my history becuase my grandpa had courage becuase he ran away from the cpos and any thing he ran for. I picked this word becuase i wanted to tell you how i wrote the word and wrote all about it.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Edgar Renteria values
I have done a research on the word duty. These are my findings.
The actual definition of Duty is Assigned service or business, Active military service. On the other hand, my definition for duty is Any kind of assignment or Military service.
In the story the giver you can find elements of the word duty it is a place where every person has a job or responsibility which means duty. They get their duty when they turn twelve. some jobs are harder and more important than others. Their world is black and white.
I have found the word duty twice in a magazine, Times, it was some titles of an article. The first title was "Is it a duty to obey the law?" The second title was "Do your duty."
I have found a few quotes that reflect duty, one of them is "Love can do much, but duty more" and the second "Without duty life is sort of boneless, it cannot hold itself together." last but not least "Their is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy."
I found Five internet sites that use the word duty. 1. Callofduty.com it is used to describe a video game. 2. Dutyelectric.com it is the duty of an electrician. 3. Active-duty.com it is used to describe the duties of the military. 4. Monitorduty.com its a comic book thing. 5. Nationalprivatedutyassosiation.com it is about the private government possitions.
These are duty in diferent languages. In dutch its Plicht, in french its Devoir, in spanish its Deber, and in German its Aufgabe.
The actual definition of Duty is Assigned service or business, Active military service. On the other hand, my definition for duty is Any kind of assignment or Military service.
In the story the giver you can find elements of the word duty it is a place where every person has a job or responsibility which means duty. They get their duty when they turn twelve. some jobs are harder and more important than others. Their world is black and white.
I have found the word duty twice in a magazine, Times, it was some titles of an article. The first title was "Is it a duty to obey the law?" The second title was "Do your duty."
I have found a few quotes that reflect duty, one of them is "Love can do much, but duty more" and the second "Without duty life is sort of boneless, it cannot hold itself together." last but not least "Their is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy."
I found Five internet sites that use the word duty. 1. Callofduty.com it is used to describe a video game. 2. Dutyelectric.com it is the duty of an electrician. 3. Active-duty.com it is used to describe the duties of the military. 4. Monitorduty.com its a comic book thing. 5. Nationalprivatedutyassosiation.com it is about the private government possitions.
These are duty in diferent languages. In dutch its Plicht, in french its Devoir, in spanish its Deber, and in German its Aufgabe.
Karina Ramirez
Search-a-Word
Courage
My definition for courage is someone who uses their mental strength to overcome their own fear and pushes themselves. The book definition says courage is the mental strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. I really think that courage is a big part of a person because without courage many people would not be doing what they are doing today. For example, many people have courage to go fight in the wars and have the guts to go out there and kill a person that they do not know.
There are two kinds of courage. The first one is moral courage which means frequently regarded as courage in following one’s own ethics. The second one is civil courage is civilian stand up against something that is deemed unjust and evil knowing that their death, injury, or any other negative effect. I did not know there were to but I guess that anyone may have one courage instead of the two courage’s there is.
The big thing that really proved that Jonas has courage is when he left town with Gabe. He had the courage to take Gave even though it was not part of the plan. They each had to go through pain and cold times on the snow without any food or clothing support. All they had were memories and each other. Neither of them gave up even though they thought they were not going to make it.
A Quote that really caught my eye is by Eddie Ricken Backer:
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
The origin of the word courage is neither Greek nor Latin, its medieval old French meaning heart and spirit. In Dutch courage can be a lion. The word for courage in three other languages is:
Spanish- tener valor
Dutch- moed
Italian- bravoure
My definition for courage is someone who uses their mental strength to overcome their own fear and pushes themselves. The book definition says courage is the mental strength to resist opposition, danger, or hardship. I really think that courage is a big part of a person because without courage many people would not be doing what they are doing today. For example, many people have courage to go fight in the wars and have the guts to go out there and kill a person that they do not know.
There are two kinds of courage. The first one is moral courage which means frequently regarded as courage in following one’s own ethics. The second one is civil courage is civilian stand up against something that is deemed unjust and evil knowing that their death, injury, or any other negative effect. I did not know there were to but I guess that anyone may have one courage instead of the two courage’s there is.
The big thing that really proved that Jonas has courage is when he left town with Gabe. He had the courage to take Gave even though it was not part of the plan. They each had to go through pain and cold times on the snow without any food or clothing support. All they had were memories and each other. Neither of them gave up even though they thought they were not going to make it.
A Quote that really caught my eye is by Eddie Ricken Backer:
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
The origin of the word courage is neither Greek nor Latin, its medieval old French meaning heart and spirit. In Dutch courage can be a lion. The word for courage in three other languages is:
Spanish- tener valor
Dutch- moed
Italian- bravoure
Monday, May 21, 2007
Katrine Schoen
Death
A permanent cessation of all vital functions: The end of all life. Sounds rather morbid does it not? The way it promotes ghastly thoughts and plots of murder. The vivid images of slaughtered corpses. Maybe even the typical graveyard scene with headstones that state the individual’s gory demise. Destined never to see the light of day for the rest of eternity. And who else better to assist the said damned than the old bone man himself, Death. The skeleton shrouded in a cloak of night that carries a scythe.
Death isn’t such a bad thing though, or, at least not it’s history and how it has helped shape literature and inspired authors.
The history of how the word came to be isn’t as morbid though. Death was an
Old Norse word, ‘Deyjah’ that was adopted by the gothic language as ‘dauthus’. It was soon turned into ‘death’ by the Old English language which has stayed throughout history and is still used in today’s modern language.
Many authors have been inspired by death and have incorporated it into their writings. Take for example “Shakespeare’s Sister”; at the end of the story, the main character committed suicide due to her failure in life to become an actress / writer during the Elizabethan era. Or, “The Giver” where the second twin was released from the community by euthanasia. Or, better yet, the dying soldier on the battle field.
“My next step was to look for the beast which was the cause of so much wretchedness: for I had at length, firmly resolved to put it to death” – E.A. Poe; Black
Cat.
As you can see, the use of this word has widely varied. But, unlike its victims, it has not reached rigormortis; but continues to live.
A permanent cessation of all vital functions: The end of all life. Sounds rather morbid does it not? The way it promotes ghastly thoughts and plots of murder. The vivid images of slaughtered corpses. Maybe even the typical graveyard scene with headstones that state the individual’s gory demise. Destined never to see the light of day for the rest of eternity. And who else better to assist the said damned than the old bone man himself, Death. The skeleton shrouded in a cloak of night that carries a scythe.
Death isn’t such a bad thing though, or, at least not it’s history and how it has helped shape literature and inspired authors.
The history of how the word came to be isn’t as morbid though. Death was an
Old Norse word, ‘Deyjah’ that was adopted by the gothic language as ‘dauthus’. It was soon turned into ‘death’ by the Old English language which has stayed throughout history and is still used in today’s modern language.
Many authors have been inspired by death and have incorporated it into their writings. Take for example “Shakespeare’s Sister”; at the end of the story, the main character committed suicide due to her failure in life to become an actress / writer during the Elizabethan era. Or, “The Giver” where the second twin was released from the community by euthanasia. Or, better yet, the dying soldier on the battle field.
“My next step was to look for the beast which was the cause of so much wretchedness: for I had at length, firmly resolved to put it to death” – E.A. Poe; Black
Cat.
As you can see, the use of this word has widely varied. But, unlike its victims, it has not reached rigormortis; but continues to live.
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