Comparing Two Quests Essay

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What makes every trip a quest? A quest is anything that has a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go to the place, challenges and trials en route, and lastly the real reason to go to the place. There are a few of these quests that are relatively similar but so different. One of these quests is the Princess Bride, a quest to save the princess from King Humperdinck. The second quest Tuesdays with Morrie, a quest of a man who is slowly dying of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or A.L.S and his positive messages to humanity. And lastly, there is Every Trip is a Quest about a kid in the summer doing a simple errand.
Firstly, in all the quests there is an objective that wanted to be completed, some of them wanted to be simple things like getting bread while others could be saving a kingdom and stopping an unplanned wedding and saving a kingdom. In both the quests it was analyzed that the characters in both of the quests play the same role. For example, Kip was the hero and the quester (every trip is a …show more content…

Secondly, in all quests there are similarities and there are differences. There are equally as many differences as similarities. For example one of the differences is that in Tuesdays with Morrie there is no enemy, it’s a quest of the life lessons of a very successful man, no enemy’s. In either case, there is a difference in these quests. One example is in the quests Tuesdays with Morrie, and Every Trip is A Quest. This is so because one of Morrie love tips is that you should accept who you are and live trough it. “Accept who you are; and revel in It.” this is the exact opposite of what kip did in his interesting quest. Kip saw Karen laughing and give up and walked away not to Karen. “Kip goes on into the store to buy the loaf of Wonder Bread that this mother told him to pick up.” He doesn’t accept himself and if he did he would walk to Karen and confront her. Finally, the quests Tuesdays with Morrie, and Every Trip is A Quest are very different types of