The Hero's Journey is something that we all may encounter in our lives. We may of seen or heard this happen too. The Hero's Journey is a pattern of events that always follow along the same lines, mostly this happens in stories such as books and movies. Almost every movie and/or book has the hero's journey and the characters involved in it. Believe it or not, this happens in all major stories that become popular. One of the many stories that I think fall very well under these categories is the book, and movie, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games fits every category, with every person in every place, and also has the journey that is needed to fit these places to be called a Hero’s Journey. Though her journey Katniss learns how to help others to …show more content…
not only benefit them, but also herself too. One thing that has to be in every story is the ordinary world and the unknown world.
The ordinary world is the place that is safe to the person, or group, that is going on the journey. The ordinary world can be their house, school, city, state, and many others. Really, it depends on how large or small of a comfort zone the character has. In The Hunger Games the Ordinary world is Katniss’s, the main character that goes on the journey, district 12. The unknown world is the other part, or place, of the journey that traveler goes to. The unknown world is the place that the traveler is scared to go, or a place that they have never been to before and don’t know what to expect. The unknown world is where the traveler has to overcome problems or face their fears. For Katniss that is the city and where the hunger games are held when she volunteers to go in the games for her little sister, Prim. But what happens first in the adventure is the ordinary world, and that is where the adventure starts to …show more content…
unfold. The second stage in the adventure is the travelers call to adventure. The call to adventure is like the wake up call to the hero. The call asks them to help out wherever it is they are needed, but some are unsure about what this may be in their journey or what it means for them as a character. In The Hunger Games, this is when Prim is picked to go play in the hunger games but Katniss takes her place so she doesn’t have to go there. But, there is also the refusal of the call. This is when the traveler refuses the chance to go on a journey, and in The Hunger Games this is when Katniss tries to refuse the call, but it isn’t accepted so that she doesn’t have to go into the games. She goes on to walk through her journey. Katniss helped out Prim who doesn’t know much since she is young and still has more in life that she can learn, so Katniss takes her place and is helping herself become a stronger person, inside and out too. The next two parts of the hero's journey is meeting the mentor and crossing the threshold. Meeting the mentor is the when the traveler meets who will be their leader and teach them what they need to do during their journey. Crossing the threshold is when the traveler crosses into the unknown world and has began their journey through the unknown world. Meeting the Mentor in The Hunger Games is when Katniss meets Haymitch, crossing the threshold is when they are all on the train going into the city and being presented in the showing. In this part Katniss helps out Peeta, her district partner, to overcome his fears, as well as her own and makes it so that they don’t think of this as just a way to become dead. After meeting new people and seeing new things, the traveler has to overcome tests, allies, and enemies, and they also have what is called the approach. The tests, allies, and enemies are some of the events or people the traveler has to defeat or overcome, In The Hunger Games this happens to Katniss a lot. One example of this is when Katniss is in the training room with all the other players and everyone is judging each other, and even the mentors and the sponsors. Once Katniss has had her training in order to go into the hunger games, she reaches the approach part of the hero’s journey. The approach is when the traveler gets to where they are sent to do their journey. For Katniss, this is when she enters the arena out in a forest setting, and the announcer says the famous line “and may the odds be ever in your favor”. Katniss helps here by helping an older woman in the training and also helping a young little girl, Rue, to figure out how they may be able to survive in the game. About halfway through the journey, we reach both a good, a bad, and a reassuring part of the journey. First comes the ordeal, death and rebirth, then the reward, or seizing the prize, and lastly in the special world comes the road back. The ordeal, death, and rebirth is when a tragic event happens, and most time someone dies and it may be the traveler and if it is the traveler that's where the rebirth comes in and the traveler is reborn. In this movie this is when many of the players in the game get killed, including the little girl that Katniss felt close to, Rue. Next is the reward in which the traveler receives some type of prize, and for Katniss that was when she won the hunger game, with her district partner Peeta. The road back home is where the traveler gets to go home after fulfilling their quest they were called to do. Katniss helps to save both her and Peeta so that they can both stay, she tricks the announcer to think they will both be dead but then he drops down and sticks with his initial words said to all the players. Lastly back in the ordinary world comes the final two stages, the resurrection and the travelers return with elixir.
The resurrection is the feeling of being safe or saved, and in this case for Katniss this is when she is back at home and is finally back in her district 12. The Return with elixir is what the traveler comes back with, this could be a life lesson that they learned or an actual item that they have been given for going through their journey. For Katniss she returns with a lesson that she has been learning and discovering throughout her journey, which is how she is always helping others and putting their needs before hers as much as she can. She learned that helping others helps herself too and doing so also affects the many around her that she may not have come in contact
with. The Hunger Games is a very adventurous movie that goes along great with the outline of a hero’s journey. The hero’s journey show Katniss something new about her that show learns throughout the movie and/or book, which is how she can help herself by helping others. This can also be a life lesson for many other people out in this world. When you do good, god will return to you. Katniss followed this reasoning throughout the journey and it helped her to become a better person and a stronger person, both inside and out.
In both books they share some traits, even though they may not look anything alike they are. both of these novels are dystopian novels and many characters share similarity’s.
This part of the journey begins when Rue dies. Katniss tried to save her and failed. She shares her struggle when she shares, "Rue's death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. But here, even more strongly than at home, I feel my impotence. “There's no way to take revenge on the Capitol. Is there?” (Collins 1364). This part of the journey continues when she finds Peeta inured. Katniss constantly risks her life to get resources to help bring Peeta back to health. Katniss is willing to go through all of this trouble because Peeta is her friend and she knows that his survival is crucial to her winning the games, and returning to her district. Protecting
The Hero’s Journey is a basic template utilized by writers everywhere. Joseph Campbell, an American scholar, analyzed an abundance of myths and literature and decided that almost all of them followed a template that has around twelve steps. He would call these steps the Hero’s Journey. The steps to the Hero’s Journey are a hero is born into ordinary circumstances, call to adventure/action, refusal of call, a push to go on the journey, aid by mentor, a crossing of the threshold, the hero is tested, defeat of a villain, possible prize, hero goes home. The Hero’s Journey is more or less the same journey every time. It is a circular pattern used in stories or myths.
The Hero’s Journey is an ancient archetype that we find throughout our modern life and also, in the world of literature.Whether metaphorical or real, the journey that a character goes on shows not only the incredible transformation of the hero but it also gives them their life meaning. It is the ultimate human experience and it reflects on every aspect of life. Take Logan, also known as Wolverine, from the X-Men movie as an example. His adventure starts with “The Call,” which is the first step of the Hero’s Journey. This step happens due to the realization of imbalance and injustice that the character has in their life. Logan steps into the first stage of the pattern but is hesitant to start his adventure because he does not know what and
Yamato, Jen. Burning Questions.“The Hunger Games and Real World Parallels: “Can kids all become Katniss Everdeen”. Movie Line. March 13, 2012. Web. May 04, 2012
The hero’s journey is a useful tool in analyzing narratives of all kinds, from myths to movies to everyday life. One of the most iconic stages in the Hero’s Journey is the ordeal, otherwise known as the belly of the whale or the cave, in which the protagonist has reached their darkest and most hopeless point – things cannot get worse. Once the hero gets through the main ordeal, their journey home is much more sedated. This can be paralleled to the encompassing plot structure, in which there is a climax, and then the intensity of the story winds down again. This stage is one of the most universal in the hero’s journey, because without conflict and climax, there is no drive or reward within the story. Popular movies such as The Hunger Games,
The monomyth or also known as the hero 's journey, is found in many different types of stories/myths/movies from around the world, no matter what the culture or setting it is a part of. There are twelve stages in which the hero participates in, where the hero goes on an adventure, is in a decisive crisis, wins a reward and comes out of it a changed or transformed person. Hercules, is a Greek myth and is an American animated film loosely based on Ancient Greco-Roman mythology, Heracles. The story is modernised in the 1997 to a Disney film and follows the hero 's journey structure. The Hunger Games is a Dystopian fiction set in American, is written by Suzanne Collins and also follows the same structure of the hero 's journey. Regardless of the
The hero’s journey can be seen as a set of laws or challenges that every hero faces through their own journey(Christopher Vogler). The hero’s journey is used as a general term such as all
Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old woman from District Twelve, faces life threatening challenges in order to stay alive, her decisions could cause her own demise, leave her family with everlasting disbelief, sorrow, and misery. If Katniss does not make wise decisions, her beloved sister, Primrose, could grow up motherless. In contrast, if she makes sensible decisions, she could return home to live in wealth and never see her family starve. The Hunger Games is a mean of entertainment for the citizens in Panem and Districts one through twelve. Each District randomly chooses one young male and female to go fight in an arena only to be the last one standing and fight for survival. Katniss’s main focus is staying alive and for her to do this,
The movie “The Hunger Games” has many similarities and relations to World Mythology. While it may not seem like this movie is as myth related as others, such as Troy and Thor, many of the themes and situations in the movie were inspired by the stories of the great myths and epics. The overall theme of the movie is courage, strength, and destiny.
The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative that appears in novels, storytelling, myth, and religious ritual. It was first identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell in his book A Hero with Thousand Faces. Campbell also discussed this pattern in his interview to Bill Moyers which was later published as a book The Power of Myths. This pattern describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds. Campbell detailed many stages in the Hero’s Journey, but he also summarized the pattern in three fundamental phases: Separation, Ordeal, and Return that all heroes, in spite of their sex, age, culture, or religion, have to overcome in order to reach the goal. Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, provides a good example of the Hero's Journey. This story describes the adventures of Alice, a young English girl, in Wonderland. Although she lacks some of the stages identified by Campbell, she still possesses many of them that are necessary for a Hero to be considered a Hero.
I unwilllingly walked through the entrance of regret and guilt. With teary eyes from what happened the night before, I didn’t know what I could say. All I thought was ‘It was an accident’ but that didn’t matter anymore.
One well-known example of “The Hero’s Journey” from popular culture is the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling. In the novel, Harry Potter, the main character, is the chosen one and “The Hero’s Journey” applies to his life from the moment he is attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named as a baby. Joseph Campbell calls the initial phase of a hero’s development the “Call to Adventure.” The call is the in... ...
The story of hunger games movie takes place in the nation of panem; which used to be in the north of America. The nation of panem consists of a wealthy capitol and twelve poorer districts. The thirteen district was supposedly destroyed, so In order to remind the people of the history each year, the Capitol created an annual event the hunger a reality T.V show in which twenty four children from the remaining district must fight in to death,. The main purpose of the hunger games movie was to show the rebels (other districts) that not even children are beyond the reach of their power.
‘The Hunger Games’ is a dystopian novel that has engaged many readers throughout the years. Suzanne Collins, the author, establishes a society called Panem, that is is divided in 12 districts and the powerful Capital. Every year the Capital hosts the games and each district draws one girl and boy to enter as tributes.