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

Found Poem.

Writer's Inc. 003:
"Read the bold statement above, read it again; repeat it after every meal; have it tattooed on your arm and by all means remember it every time you write.
Let this statement be your constant reminder that when you write, you are often involved in uncharted thinking and exploring. 
For example, at the beginning of this process, you may be searching for possible subjects that related to your assignment. 
At another point, you may be experimenting with different ways to write about one of these subjects. 
Later on, you may be searching for the perfect idea to tie all your main points together."


Found Poem: Remember, you.

The beginning of every main idea is a bold statement.
Remember when you write: experiment, search and

BE DIFFERENT.

Remember, Let it be.

Read it AGAIN.
Remember that l a t e r on, you'll change it for the perfect words to TIE it all together.
You are involved in an uncharted process called literature.
Remember it's yours.

Remember to always search for another way to write it.
So your statement is bolder than ever.
Begin.

Looking through the Glass.

A fragile, petite girl was swinging on her old swing set for the last ten minutes that she could; tracing her fingers up, down and through the cold chains.

She hasn't spoken in almost four days.

And she doesn't want to leave.

The moving vans just finished packing up.  She lived here her whole life, but it was too painful to be here anymore.  She didn't want things to change so fast.

She's terrified.

Her Daddy pulls up in the black car.
He walks towards her holding back tears.
"Have you got everything sweetheart?" he said in a gentle voice.
"Yes, but I'm not going back inside that house" she said her high, sad voice.
"Okay, I understand" he said softly.
"Are you ready to go?"

She looked up at him with tears of heartache rushing down her small, angelic face and whispered,
"Daddy, I don't want to go."
Tears erupt from his sad, blue eyes as he embraced his small angel.

They wept together in a sorrowful hug.

He carried her to the car and slid into the back seat as Grandpa backed up the black car.
The fragile, petite girl looked through the glass at the sad house.
"I love you Daddy, and Mommy" She breathed.
"I love you too, and Mommy" Daddy whispered.

He hugged her tighter as they drove to Mommy's funeral.