The 100 Book And Show: Different Use Of The Quest Archetype

Neila Laurore

Professor McCauley

ENC1102

27 January 2023

The 100 Book/Show Different Use of The Quest Archetype

In the 100 book and the series, readers can quickly find that they are quite different. This is shown all throughout the book and show. One heavy example of this is with the plot archetype quest and how they use it in the beginning, middle and end of the book and show.

To begin, the book and show use the quest archetype differently in the beginning. From the book, The 100, “‘Get where?’ Clarke grunted, trying to free herself from the guard’s grip. ‘We’re clearing out the detention center today. A hundred lucky criminals are getting the chance to make history.’ The corners of his mouth twitched into a smirk. ‘You’re going

To her surprise the guard told her to sit on her bed and she was confused if they were going to injecting with the fatal doses in her cell. When the ship’s doctor walked in, whom she knew quite well. After a heavy conversation with him Clark punched him, and he was upset and amused. He then told Clark that she and the other prisoners were going to be sent to earth. To elaborate, Clark is told that she and 100 other prisoners are being sent down to search on a quest by the ship’s doctor. According to the source, The 100, “Clarke, you are not being executed. You're being sent to the ground, all one hundred of you” (“Pilot” 02:02-02:05). Clarke had run away from the gauds that were in her cell into the hall. There her mother saw her and went to console her. Her mother then tells Clark that she and the other prisoners are being sent to the ground and that this is a chance for not only them to live but also so that the other people can live because the ship’s life support is failing. In other words, Clark in the show is being told about the quest that she and 100 others are about to embark on by her mother. From the text, “Kass

According to the text, The 100, “Wells glanced up at the darkening sky. He had no idea if the Colony lost contact with the dropship when it crashed, but he hoped that the monitors in the bracelets were still transmitting data about their blood composition and heart rates. They must have collected enough information to prove that Earth was safe, and would surely begin sending groups of citizens down soon” (Morgan 172, 173). The kids on the dropship have been on Earth for quite some time and are just trying to survive. While creating graves for the dead, Wells stares into the sky and wonders if their Colony knows if Earth is safe or that they are alive. He also hopes that his father and best friend, Glass, would be among the people that the Colony would send down. In other words, Wells as well as the others are trying their best to survive so that hopefully everyone on the Ark can come down to Earth. From the source, The 100, “We need to launch those flares ASAP if we have any hope of saving those people” (“Twilight's Last Gleaming” 29:47-29:51). The kids on Earth are trying to let the people on the ark know that Earth is habitable before they kill 320 people so that they oxygen can last up on the ark. To elaborate, the 100 want the people on the Ark to know that they can come down to Earth and that they do not have to kill anyone to survive up there. According to the text, “Kass Morgan,” “‘Will