The Knight of the cart is shown to have an extreme love towards the Queen. This amount of love is shown when he doesn’t hear the guardian of the ford’s warning, resulting in him getting knocked off his horse. Blinding love was also seen when a knight wanted to fight the main hero for a …
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Hero’s Journey Cut Short
In What Makes a Hero? By Mather Winkler, he connects the hero’s journey seen in many fictional books and movies to the events that unfold into ordinary people. While I can see his overarching point that people will improve themselves from overcoming the adversary, I dispute the notion that the hero’s journey is a mirror …
The First Draft Masochists
I find how Lamott describes the reality of writing a little unnerving. She describes her version of the writing process as “you can either type, or kill yourself. We all often feel like we are pulling teeth” (2). While her feelings towards the writing process are probably exaggerated and ironically probably took her a long …
Heroes Who They Are And What They Do
Overall, this reading was straightforward. Goethals and Allison laid out their ideas about who a hero was to the public and then supported their views with logical reasoning and “scientific” studies. However, I don’t agree with how they conducted one of their studies. The authors asked a group of 75 people to rank heroes and …
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