Her Journey

Ordinary World: Little 5 year old Kate, lives with her mommy and daddy in Washington, and she's about to get a new baby brother.

Call to Adventure: Kate has to move to Africa for her daddy's job.

Refusal of the Call: She doesn't want to move, and leave her friends and family. She likes the new school she just barely got.

Meeting with the Mentor: Her mom had to give her a little talk to make her feel better about moving to a new place. She said that Kate would make lots of new friends and have a really great time, only if she had a good attitude.

Crossing the Threshold: Kate gets on the plane to her new home.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Kate didn't like her new home, because everyone would look at her strange. She did make friends with some girls though, and they were very nice to her. She didn't like the change of everything, but at the same time was excited to explore new things and places.

Approach: Kate came home one day crying 'cause she was so different from everyone else and no one liked her.

Ordeal: Kate was walking home from playing with her new friends when a couple of big, mean boys came up to her and started calling her names and pushing and kicking her around.  They wouldn't leave her alone, so she yells for her dog and he comes running and chases the boys away.

Reward: Kate can now walk home, with her dog by her side, without having to worry about anyone bothering her.

The Road Back: Kate walks home again but this time her doggy wasn't there, because she hadn't seen the boys in a long time, she wasn't scared.

Resurrection: The boys had followed her because they knew she wasn't protected. Kate knew if she could just call for her dog she would be saved. She was getting beat up pretty bad and soon found herself on the ground, hearing the sound of the boys running away and the barking of her doggy.

Elixir: Now she takes her wonderful dog with her no matter where she goes. Everyone is always safe when they're with Kate and her doggy.

Hero's Journey Film Analysis

17 Again
 

Ordinary World: Mike O'Donnell is an adult with     two kids, no career, and about to get a divorce.

Call To Adventure: The old janitor asks Mike if he  could go back would he do it all over again?

Refusal of the Call: He's driving home thinking his life is never going to change, when he sees the old janitor about to jump off the bridge. He runs over to see and Mike gets sucked into the water below. He gets home the next morning and he's 17.

Meeting with the Mentor: Ned, his best friend, helps him out after he tries to attack and kill Mike. Ned finds out for him that he was changed back to 17 for a reason; to go back to high school.

Crossing the Threshold: Mike goes back to High School.

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Mike gets on the basketball team, has to fit in with what the teenagers are doing these days, meets Stan the bully in high school, befriends his son by finding out he's the school punching bag, learns about Maggie's (his daughter) boyfriend issues, and learns that his wife Scarlett is going on dates with other guys.


Approach: Mike realizes its not about getting on the team, but helping his
kids through high school and fix his marriage with Scarlett.

Ordeal: Scarlett is going through with the divorce and Mike has to stop it by reminding her of how much he loves her.

Reward: Scarlett changes the court date.

The Road Back: Mike goes to the final basketball game planning on playing and having the life he would've had.

Resurrection: Scarlett leaves the game and Mike has the choice to play the game or run after her and lose everything again.

Return with Elixir: Mike runs after her and his marriage and his relationship with his kids is fixed.

That One Saturday

Dear World,

       I was once an ordinary person. I would wake up at 6:50 almost every day (Monday-Friday), go to school, come home: eat a snack, watch some t.v., and hang out with friends. I had a loving family, an amazing boyfriend, a fantastic dog, and everything was going perfect. Life was great until one day I woke up on a very odd Saturday. No one and I mean no one was even present in my life. I ran around up and down my house, no one was there. I ran around the neighborhood, no one was there. I ran to walmart, no one was there. I finally ran to the school and right there in the middle of the field was some old fat janitor, sweeping up something on the grass. I walk up to him, he looked up at me with a blank stare and said "run." Then he disappeared right in front of my eyes.

   What happened to everyone?
   Why was the janitor the only person I could find?
   What am I running from exactly?
                     
                                Sincerely,
                                The last person on the planet

HEY I'm blurbbin here!

We Shot The Moon ~ Perfect Time

Tyson sits in the same uncomfortable chair, watching his wife Katelyn suffer in the hospital with cancer. He loves her so much, he cannot give up hope. He grasps her hand as she wakes up and looks him in the eye. He stares back in silence and realizes that she is the only one for him, and he will not give up this fight.

Jack's Mannequin ~ Bruised

John Watkins and Sarah Wright stand at the terminal, and say their final goodbye to each other. She leaves but John can't just let her go, because he loves her. He gets on an airplane and flies after her. He can't get her off his mind, so it makes it seem like this plane ride will never end.

Safetysuit ~ Annie

Stephen met this very intriguing girl while sitting in class. She is not like everyone else, she's a little different but she was everything to Stephen. He can't think about anything or anyone else except for her, and her name was Annie.

Changes

 I'm watching everything rush by, like I can't get enough of 

     anything surrounding me.

  I am so ecstatic, I just can't picture a more perfect 

        moment: sitting in the car on the freeway to California. 

              My family was adventuring off to Disneyland. You could 

                      just feel the excitement in the car as we pulled up to the beach

                              house we were going to stay at. We're unloading our stuff from

                       the car into the house. We are just running around having so 

              much fun when all of a sudden my mom gets a call, from 

        my aunt. I didn't have to look at my mom to know 

   something was terribly wrong. The whole house 

was silent and I finally looked at my mom.

    The tears were streaming down her face and there

    was nothing but shock. We were all asking her 

    what was happening, what was going on. She

    finally told us. 

       My cousin had shot herself earlier on that day.

     I couldn't believe a word of it, I was in complete

   shock. I just stared off into space for hours not 

  even knowing what was going on in my head. All

 I could think, as I stood out on the beach was,

                     things can be going so great at one moment

                   and the next your staring at the sun setting over

                 the ocean like it was her, saying her final goodbye,

                                            to the world.