The Hero's Journey
In the project “The Hero’s Journey,” based off of Joseph Campbell’s concept of the monomyth we analyzed, constructed, then applied this monomyth to our own lives. The first piece of text we looked at was Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero’s Journey.” Inside this text, there is “eight steps to transformation,” 3 main categories with 8 Steps overall. It begins with “Separation” which explains the beginning of a Hero’s Journey and how they are called upon. Next is the “Initiation” which covers 4 of the eight steps; this covers trials, crisis, transformation, and consolidation. Last is “The Return,” the return is basically coming back from the journey and coming back a Hero. We constructed our own “Hero’s Journey” story through taking our learnings from this monomyth and applying them to our own lives. Many students including myself formed their story off of an emotional/ mental realization. This project taught me that we are all heros for our own reasons. In terms of academics this project furthered my skills by teaching me how to study text and how to extract ideas through analyzation.
Through the Hero’s Journey project I grew in regards to my storytelling skills, as I learned how to pull effective elements to my audience and how to maneuver those to relate to my audience. In more elementary language, I learned how to connect the important parts of my story to my audience. For example, I talked about how I was inspired and how that inspiration formed my dreams and goals. On a personal level, my audience can all relate to that individually or in their own way. If we are being asked to be thoughtful and honest in this response I don’t feel as if I grew in many other areas. As far as confidence, I didn’t really have to share my story with anyone besides people I am with daily. This caused zero growth because I didn’t have to experience the real thing. Whereas if I would have been required to go on that stage and be under the spotlight, I believe I would have grown far more in terms of confidence. Next time I am faced with an exhibition or project like this, I expect to be required to tell my story on stage or at least in front of more than my everyday class; as the way we did this did not benefit anyone besides who went on stage.
My enduring understanding I have taken away from The Hero’s Journey project is the same as my area of growth. How to effectively capture an audience by relating to each of them on a personal level. This sort of thing will be important in my own journey to becoming my own hero. You see there is a level of relationship between a speaker and an audience member, what I took away from this project is the way to form that and solidify it. This will be relevant regarding to my journey to become my own hero because I believe this skill is crucial for future things such as, college essays, resumes/ applications, interviews, writing the novel I plan on writing after college, general public speaking, oh and girls!
In the project “The Hero’s Journey,” based off of Joseph Campbell’s concept of the monomyth we analyzed, constructed, then applied this monomyth to our own lives. The first piece of text we looked at was Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero’s Journey.” Inside this text, there is “eight steps to transformation,” 3 main categories with 8 Steps overall. It begins with “Separation” which explains the beginning of a Hero’s Journey and how they are called upon. Next is the “Initiation” which covers 4 of the eight steps; this covers trials, crisis, transformation, and consolidation. Last is “The Return,” the return is basically coming back from the journey and coming back a Hero. We constructed our own “Hero’s Journey” story through taking our learnings from this monomyth and applying them to our own lives. Many students including myself formed their story off of an emotional/ mental realization. This project taught me that we are all heros for our own reasons. In terms of academics this project furthered my skills by teaching me how to study text and how to extract ideas through analyzation.
Through the Hero’s Journey project I grew in regards to my storytelling skills, as I learned how to pull effective elements to my audience and how to maneuver those to relate to my audience. In more elementary language, I learned how to connect the important parts of my story to my audience. For example, I talked about how I was inspired and how that inspiration formed my dreams and goals. On a personal level, my audience can all relate to that individually or in their own way. If we are being asked to be thoughtful and honest in this response I don’t feel as if I grew in many other areas. As far as confidence, I didn’t really have to share my story with anyone besides people I am with daily. This caused zero growth because I didn’t have to experience the real thing. Whereas if I would have been required to go on that stage and be under the spotlight, I believe I would have grown far more in terms of confidence. Next time I am faced with an exhibition or project like this, I expect to be required to tell my story on stage or at least in front of more than my everyday class; as the way we did this did not benefit anyone besides who went on stage.
My enduring understanding I have taken away from The Hero’s Journey project is the same as my area of growth. How to effectively capture an audience by relating to each of them on a personal level. This sort of thing will be important in my own journey to becoming my own hero. You see there is a level of relationship between a speaker and an audience member, what I took away from this project is the way to form that and solidify it. This will be relevant regarding to my journey to become my own hero because I believe this skill is crucial for future things such as, college essays, resumes/ applications, interviews, writing the novel I plan on writing after college, general public speaking, oh and girls!