1a. Police brutality 1b. We always hear about police brutality on the news, where police either physically abuse or kill an innocent person. This is because some police abuse their power or are undertrained. 2.
Three important elements between these stories are the conflict between the characters and their decisions, the characters that tell you about themselves and their personality and the setting of the story that give you an understanding of where these characters story takes place. Conflict is a disagreement or argument that
Joseph Campbell’s monomyth steps are the departure, the initiation and the return. The departure step is when the hero is forced to leave his/her everyday life and there is a boundary between the hero's life and the unknown challenges that await him/her. The initiation is when the hero faces challenges and also has a mentor that teaches the hero what they need to know and may also give them a weapon. Lastly, the hero goes through a transformation which is when the hero achieves their goal and the hero is also changed by his experiences and becomes a true hero. The Return is when the hero returns home for good, temporarily, or as a changed person.
The Essence Of Tools Of Fiction A story relies on the backdrop of themes, symbols and figurative language. They are the pieces that construct the puzzle of narrative together. Fiction commonly incorporates a writer manipulating truth in one way or another, and this idea is seen in Flannery O Connor’s, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Kate Chopin’s, The Story of an Hour.
Novel choice: Unwind What format did you read? eBook 1. What catastrophe or apocalypse has caused changes to life, culture, and community in this dystopia? The Heartland War is the catastrophe that changed life, culture and community in Unwind.
In literature, colors are often used to create a deeper meaning of a book. In The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the analysis of color can influence the meaning of the story and help create a deeper understanding of the characters. One color mentioned is the color yellow. One example of the color yellow is its portrayal through two girls wearing yellow dresses at one of Jay Gatsby’s parties. The girls and their yellow dresses are used to predict happiness, yet are also used to predict caution.
A hero's journey by Joseph Campbell involves twelve steps. The hero's journey states that the hero must go through several stages in order to prepare themselves for heroism. These steps are, the ordinary world, the call to adventure, refusal to call , supernatural aid, crossing the threshold , entering the unknown, challenges and allies, approach, the supreme ordeal, reward, resurrection, and finally the return with elixir. In the Book A hero with a thousand faces A hero ventures forth from the world of the natural day into a region of supernatural wonders. Along the way enemies are there encountered and a major victory occurs .
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In A Short History of Myths, Karen armstrong introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myths. Armstrong provides various stories about myth meanings and it functions in our lives by introducing different time periods. The concept of myth is central to all cultures because it lives in our stories and every culture in human history has created its own mythologies to understand how the universe works.
The reason why metaphors are culturally conditioned or limited, because of what each culture may believe. Therefore, each culture metaphor defines how he/ she may live everyday life. Although there are many ways that metaphors can be expressed, like native Americans believing in mother earth, Christians believing that God is father, and Daoism believing in the highest good is like that of water. Metaphors are used to help guide and individual through life, it also helps to understand the significance in the different religions.
Symbolism in general is the building blocks to all sources of literature and can shape a piece of writing in many ways. Symbols in general can portray what something or someone represents, giving a deeper and metaphorical meaning to a symbol. Symbolism is often used within poetry, literature, music, or even art. This is how an author conveys a different meaning to the audience. For example artists may use the color “red” not only because of the color theory, but to convey love, passion, and maybe even health.
Tim Moore justly elucidates this idea: Myths, in this tradition, are the fruit of the primordial mind: at once a door to understanding the primitive forms of experience, to which
Another example of metaphor would be ‘the buildings’, we use to associate the image of opening a new door as reaching for a new goal. King used the ‘doors of opportunity’ and ‘warm threshold’ as a way to describe the works that need to be taken to impose progress on the civil rights in United States. ‘Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children’ and ‘But there is something that I must see to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.’ Above all, metaphor helps the reader to create a vivid imagery, can transform emotional effects from something that is generally and common to something that is uncommon and less understood. In another word, it is ‘the intrusion of non-literal
A creation myth explains what each culture believes about the creation of the world and how people first entered into it. The two creation myths “African Bushmen Creation Myth” and “Iroquois Creation Myth” both explain the creation of Earth as well as their ideas of how people came to be. While the two creation myths have many similarities, differences may lie in the characters, personalities, setting, and plot. Creation myths have many similarities because many cultures develop with the same basic elements. Three comparisons from the creation myths “African Bushmen Creation Myth” and “Iroquois Creation Myth” caught my attention in a very special way.
Campbell writes about the concept that countless myths all share a basic structure, called the monomyth. In this, the hero of the story undergoes a number of steps in his journey, labelled Departure, Initiation and Return (cf. Ahmed, 2012, 4): (1) In the Departure stage, the hero enters a strange world of often supernatural powers and events, after being called to it in the normal world he’s lived in (cf. Colbert, 2008, 208).
Teaching Metaphor Introduction: A metaphor is defined as, ‘a way of speaking in which one thing is expressed in terms of another, whereby this bringing together throws new light on the character of what is described’ (Gorden 1978 as cited in Gassner 1999). The metaphor can be found as an effective tool in the Bible, ancient mythology, and children’s fairy tales.
