Flint Lockwood: Hero's Journey in a Food-filled Sky

As presented in the hero’s journey, many works of literature begin in the ordinary; although, in the archetypal story pattern the golden age, the story commences in a perfect world. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs follows “wannabe-scientist” Flint Lockwood, on his endeavour to flaunt his scientific abilities to the world (Sony Pictures 2009). Subsequent to his prior defeats, Lockwood develops a contraption allowing him to turn water into food. Lockwood seizes at the opportunity to gain the affection and approval from his peers and creates a remote to send orders to the machine in the sky. With every rainfall came cheeseburgers, steaks and praise from all whom used to doubt him. Catastrophe strikes when the device overloads; consequently, causing the homemade contraption to send down monstrous sized portions that threatened the towns wellbeing. Lockwood sets out on his mission to bring serenity back to the towns

With each birthday, they loose apart of themselves, yet gain knowledge they will need to shape them for the rest of their lives. The archetypal story pattern, end of childhood/loss of innocence, exhibits the somewhat tragic departure with childhood, when innocence withers away, and knowledge is obtained. Circle Game, by award winning singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, follows a boy through the many seasons of his life. The course gives light to the inevitable, as it reveals the reward of growing older. Although innocence is lost, the end of childhood allows individuals to gain insight by reflecting on their past. The stanza “So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty / Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true / There’ll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty” illustrates the transition from childhood to to adulthood. Circle Game displays the archetypal story pattern the end of childhood in a graceful and moving work of