My Journey

Oridinary World: I live in Spanish Fork, barely have any friends, I'm a freaking weird kid.

Call to Adventure: I move to Cedar Hills.  Gain lots of friends and I'm still a freaking weird kid.

Refusal to Call: Jr. High/High School.  It's a pretty socially awkward time frame and you don't really know what to except or what's going on.  At least it was for me.

Meeting with Mentor: is God my mentor? hmmm.  I guess that counts....

Crossing the Threshold: trusting many people.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Lose some friends, still very shy.  Lose friends to drugs.  Gossip ruining people's lives.

Approach: Deciding whether or not to try out drugs, kind of defining who I was at the time.

Ordeal: Parent's divorce, being insecure.

Reward: Living through hard times and realizing it will be okay in the end.

The Road Back: Seeing old friends and old habits and trying not to get into those things.  Knowing I don't need that crap  in my life.

Resurrection: Standing on my own ground even if it's not what my friends or family like, doing what's best for me and having a better life. I create my own life.

Return with Elixir: Knowing to never, ever give up.

Hero: Me
Mentor: God? haha.
Threshold Guardian: friends.
Herald: Mother
Shapeshifter: drug friends
Shadow: Rumor friends
Trickster: Boys, haha.

Film Analysis

Forever Strong.

Oridinary World: Rick lives in Arizona where his days consist of partying and drinking with his friends and girlfriend, he plays rugby with his distant father as his coach.  His family life isn't ideal.

Call to Adventure: Gets a DUI, seriously injures his girlfriend and gets sent to Juvi in Salt Lake City.  He is asked to join the Highland Rugby team, his home rivals.

Refusal to the Call: Rick beats up some one in Juvi and has no desire to change himself.
 

Meeting with the Mentor: Marcus, his mentor, tells him he needs to change, he can't go to Arizona the same kid.  Another mentor is Coach Gelwix, the coach of the Highland team.
 

Crossing the Threshold: Starts to play with the Highland Rugby team.
 

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Friend from home sends drugs in a Rugby ball.  He has a problem with Q, a teammate.  He becomes Captain of the Highland Rugby team.
 

Approach: His old friends want him to play for the Flagstaff team, his home team. "I want you to be Forever strong on the field, so that you'll stay forever strong off it." - Coach Gelwix.
 

Ordeal: His friend, and teammate, Kurt dies from being hit by a drunk driver.  His dad picks him up from Juvi, a year later, fro his early release based on good reports from Marcus.
 

Reward: He becomes captain and he is a Highland team member and he has found some place where he is loved and where he belongs.
 

The Road Back: His dad picks him up from Juvi, a year later, for his early release based on good reports from Marcus.  His old friends are stupid with old habits.  Rick has changed for the better.  His friends get him arrested, because his "friends" framed him with drugs and alcohol. Rick and father have a fight about his past and what's going on.
 

Resurrection: Tells his friends he's changed and how he is a Highland player now.  He wasn't doing drugs or alcohol.  "Coach Gelwix took away my life." - Dad. "Well he gave me mine." - Rick.
 

Return with Elixir: His father stands up for him and gives him confidence.  Rick and dad reunite.  He is a Highland player and he is Forever Strong.

 

Archetypes:

Hero: Rick: learns to be a different person, forever strong.

Mentor:Marcus, Coach Gelwix

Threshold Guardian: Coach Gelwix

Herald: Father

Shapeshifter: Old Friends

Shadow: Old Friends

Trickster: Old Friends.

Ordinary World.

Tracy's birthday was next week, 19 years old.

She's pretty excited.  She's young, and loving life.  Living among the streets of Chicago and has the greatest boyfriend.  She is a beautiful girl who has an impeccable imagination and creativity about life.  Her life is art.


She was unfathomable.  She could draw anything; when she drew, she put her soul into it.

She started to draw one day, what seemed to look like a tree.  All of the sudden she had the sudden urge to puke her stomach out.  After she did, she got another horrible sick feeling, but it was different this time.

Travis was a regular 20 year old, with a killer intellegence going for him.  He had a beautiful girlfriend and was loving life.  Speaking of which, she was calling.
It was so sweet to hear her voice, but it had a different tone to it.  Worried, yet excited.
Travis couldn't breathe.
He dropped the phone.

Tracy was back to her drawing of the tree.  She doesn't have the same inspiration because her whole world had changed in 2 ways.  She was pregnant, and her boyfriend was long gone.

She draws an amazing picture of a tree being so strong and free on one side, and wilted and broken on the other.

Questions:
What will happen to Tracy and the baby?
Will Travis come back?
How will her life change even more?

Blurbs.

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen:
What a debatable, beloved song this is.  It fights between the meaning of  life, love or deeper meanings.  A deep song that does in fact, move you.  When every thing is left cold and broken, all you can say is, Hallelujah.


Miserable at Best by Mayday Parade:
Katie loves Dave, but when it comes down to it, she thinks she can do better, but Dave knows this, so he thinks she will leave him for that other guy, he can live without her, but without her, he'll be miserable at best.

Old School by Hedley:
Remembering the good old days of when you were young, and taking that adventure before you grow up.  Every one clings to their youth, so don't close your eyes, or you'll fade away.

My Story.

 Hey, what's up? yeah, you're 17 and you're almost an adult? I don't think so.  I don't like that idea. 

Do you remember when you were 7?  And your friend told you that she won't be your friend unless you walked bare foot over broken glass.  You're not stupid, that's gonna hurt.  She never really spoke to you again, but she was crazy anyway, so it's okay.


Remember when you were 6 and all you did was chase boys around the playground? and then they told you you had bugs in your hair and teeth?  See, now those were the good, fun times.


Remember when you just turned 15 and your parents got divorced? Ya, that was hard, still is.  Remember when your group of friends split up? yeah that was hard too.  Remember those times you felt lonely?  Ya, that sucked.


Remember how you're shy and awkward? How it's so hard to talk to boys. Yeah, now that's more stories for another day.  Remember how you found flowers on your door step?  Ha ha, good day.  Remember that day you looked inside your coffee cup and the foam made a heart?  It was too cool not to take a picture.

It's those little things that life's all about.  Looking back, I believe the theme is love.  Love is all you need. 

Over-all, you get bits and pieces of my story.  My story seems too average though.  I'm just another person, with another story.  So why am I different?  Get to know me and you'll find out.

Or maybe, I am just like every one else... I HOPE NOT. 

KEY:
Red: Character
Blue: Plot
Green: Setting
Italized and Underlined: Conflict
Bold: Theme