Personal Narrative: The Hero's Journey

Literature is a display of the human condition and the world around us:it reflects the emotions, and feelings of those living life during a specific time period:whether its feelings of joy or pain. From the earliest of time men and women have used literature as a way to create heros, and tell stories of life, as a way to convey their own experiences, and the journey that life takes you on. This is often displayed in what's called the Hero’s Journey. This journey is incorporated into almost all works of literature and film as a way to show how one leaves home, undergoes transformations, but always returns home in a better condition than what they left. This has been displayed in action packed works like The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon, all the …show more content…
It's amazing how when one reads Jane Eyre solely, their perspective of Bertha and Rochester are so flawed. They view this man as someone who made the mistake of marrying a woman who turned out to be something she was not, and became stuck with her due to the rules on divorce back then. However, when reading Wide Sargasso Sea it becomes clear that Rochester's story is false: Bertha’s name is actually Antoinette , and Rochester had dehumanized her by locking her in a closet for years. While these stories are fabricated, I think it's insane how only hearing one side of a story can allow one to have such a flawed perspective of someone or something. Nevertheless, these works can be used as a life lesson: always find both sides of a story. If you do not there is a very large chance that the story you are hearing may not be the entire truth, and one should always avoid creating prejudice. Another one of my favorite works was Capote's In Cold Blood I knew from the beginning I would be interested in this work simply because of the fact that this novel included the aspect of law and criminal justice. However, what I did not expect was for me to have such a great appreciation for the writer's …show more content…
I can still remember reading so many diverse, and intriguing works like 1000 Cranes all the way to classics like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In that 7th grade class I learned that reading can be so fun, and taking the time to interpret a work can be so stimulating. However, a lot of this passion was dulled during my 8th grade year when I had a teacher who could not appreciate all the various aspects of literature. Even so, by the time freshmen year rolled around I was able to reignite the interest I had in literature,and grow in my ability to interpret and appreciate an author’s style. I can still remember my freshman year IOP and the “sweatpants” comment I made about a line in Kubla Khan: and to think I now recently scored sevens on both my IOP and IOC. I can truly say I have come a long way. Looking towards the future I plan to take many literature and English courses to enhance the skills I have already obtained in these last four years. What's more exciting is the fact that I am probably more prepared than the average freshman, which will allow me to analyze, and interpret works at a higher level than what is expected of me. I am confident of this because as I look at the course register for the upcoming academic year and some of the classes study works we have already read or works that have the same author as one of the works we covered. In particular I am excited for a course that studies

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Personal Narrative: A Hero's Journey

Personal Narrative: A Hero's Journey