Ant 143-173 Leslie

Leslie Navarrete Analytical and Persuasive Writing 1020/08
Vogler, Christopher, and Michele Montez. The Writer's Journey : Mythic Structure for Writers. 3rd ed. Boston: Michael Wiese Productions, 2007. 143-173
Summary:
In these two chapters the reader was exposed to two stages: The Approach to the Inmost Cave and The Ordeal. The first chapter, The Approach to the Inmost Cave is considered the middle of the journey. In this stage a hero is able to prepare for his or her battle in the ordeal. The hero can contemplate or armor up against his or her foe. At times this particular stage is not a relaxing moment, but a bold moment where the hero already to confront the great ordeal without needing preparation! When the hero continues his or her journey he or she persists to face obstacles that are more tedious and life threatening. Some of the obstacles that are evident in approach the inmost cave are: illusions, threshold guardians, the Sherman’s territory, and life-death tests.
Though some of the obstacles were once present in pervious stages the tests are more lethal and now challenge the hero’s new and improved skills. All these trails revolve around gambling of the hero’s life. Volger states that the death situation is pivotal in a script because it brings the dramatic complications, which are emotional distresses set backs that challenge the hero’s willingness to succeed. When putting the death situation in a script is also allows the purpose of the journey to rise again, how dangerous the journey is ,and satisfies the death quench that audiences yearn for. For the reason that this stage is from of dramatic action and hostilness this gives the opportunity for a group member to become a leader. In this scene the audience with be exposes to the different archetypes that characters can transform themselves to even the hero. Yet, the main purpose is illuminated and it because everyone’s goal!
Now that everyone has one mind set and everyone is prepared for the battle; the encounter of the ordeal appears. The ordeal is stated as the deepest chamber ,but not the ending of the script or the climax. The ordeal sets the stage for the true climax so the position on where the ordeal is put is important. Volger advised to put the ordeal in the middle of the acts or at the end of Act 2. The decision gives the writer more time to elaborate on he crisis , the setting , and allow another turning point. To delay the ordeal is said to build a great suspense making a greater effect on the audience! The ordeal is defined as a crisis with a purpose to bring death and rebirth to the hero. There is where the hero faces his worse enemy; his or her own shadows aka demons.
The ordeal is basically the problems that everyone faces in day to day bases, but instead are all correlating into one big force! The need of balance between animus and anima are important to reach and that is what the ordeal. One the balance is reached it is considered a sacred marriage between your inner forces and that is what helps a hero succeed. The crisis all vary from love and higher authority; in a script it is comes done to leaving the audience dumbfounded and satisfying their quench for death. The witness is pivotal in the death scenes because they represent the audience and emphasizes the emotions of horror, despair, and relief.
It is the approach to the inmost cave and the ordeal that build you movie and that marks your journey and one can over come these two stages everything will come in time.
Reaction:
I felt like I could really compare these two chapters to my own journey. My present situation in college I feel that I can not reach the inmost cave because I just jump to the ordeal! I have no time to rest or mediate on how to succeed in the college world or even time to self sooth myself. The ordeal is the exams and the work itself. I just go into the ordeal ready and if I feel as if I am getting weak I rest enough to just finish that particular task. The ordeal really touched me and how it is truly a crisis not the ending or climax point. It is when everything that could go wrong does and now you or your group have to find some way to survive. Unlike the movies, the hero can die in reality. The hero could die physically or mentally and to be restored takes longer than in movies.
Life is almost like a movie, but unpredictable and prolonged! One thing that movies and life have in common is the fear of high authority. I think it is the most enormous fear that a hero must confront if he or she gains the courage to and if so let see if they surpass that ordeal! I know that my mother is my greatest ordeal and more of her approval of my decisions. The fear of rejection or disappointment dinguses me and it actually my fuel to succeed in life. I run away from what I believe I am not capable to succeed in and stick to what I know. The ordeal made a huge impact to me as I was reading it and helped me actually organize my current status!
Questions:
1. Through your hero’s journey was there is there a moment that you have been stuck when approaching the inmost cave. If so can you tell your experience. If you been able to succeed what advise who you give to your peer(s)?
2. What is common crisis that you tend to have when trying to complete your journey?
3. Demons and shadows will forever exist ; for you what is the way to confront them or do you avoid them?
4. Compare the Ordeal chapter to your life or even today society. What you views in correlation to these two matters?