The film Back to the Future follows the Three Act Structure, the foundation of all dramatic storytelling. Act One introduces Marty, the protagonist and hero of the story who lives in an ordinary world when we learn about his life, his personality, his dysfunctional family, his girlfriend, and his everyday problems. We are introduced to another character that plays an important role, Doc. In the opening scene there is a lot of foreshadowing, cues that will have a meaning as the story develops. We learn about Doc’s personality, his profession as a scientist, his obsession with time, and how he and the protagonist have a close relationship as Marty knows where the key to Doc’s house is hidden. The hero receives the call to adventure when Doc asks him to meet him at the Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 AM to provide assistance with an experiment. …show more content…
When it is time for the meeting, Marty refuses the call to action, he would rather be sleeping than helping Doc with his experiment, but he goes anyway. In his meeting with Doc, we are introduced to the character as being Marty’s mentor as he teaches Marty about his experiment. He teaches him how the time machine works and prepares him for time travel. Then we are introduced to the antagonists, the Libyan terrorists, who are threatening Doc and Marty’s life because he stole plutonium to generate the energy needed to power the DeLorean time machine. We are presented with an inciting incident, Doc’s death. As the hero’s journey continues, the hero must cross the first threshold because his life is in danger. Marty is forced to travel in time, marking the first plot point. As he’s in the DeLorean he realizes he can save Doc’s life. The character has a goal, and must achieve it. Marty has to be prepared to face the challenges brought upon him for his decision to time
In Frank Beddors, “The Looking Glass Wars” a lot of things happen that are bad. There are lots of good things too. The story is about the “Myth” of Alice Liddell stepping through a looking glass into Wonderland. The topic of this essay is the Truth of the story. The purpose of this paper is how Loyal or devoted some people are to white imagination
Hope and joy can be hard to find especially when times are tough. This is a situation in Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse , the character Billy Jo and her family are living in the time of the Dust Bowl and are struggling financially . Her father is a farmer in a time where nothing grows and after an accident Billy Jo’s mother passes away. This is a big part of Billy Jo is effected emotionally and shows seems very sad. Billy Jo has to move and has to move on and find joy and hope even in tough times.
The first video describes the path a hero takes during his journey in the story. This path contains 11 stages: four occurring in the ordinary world, two in the transitional phase, and five in the special world. These stages are as follows: call to adventure, assistance, departure, trials, approach, crisis, treasure, result, return,
Christopher Johnson McCandless, the main character in the book “Into the Wild,” had made a lot of friends even though he did not like people. Wayne Westerberg was one of Chris’s friends who he met in a bar. Chris also befriended a girl named Jan Burre. Another person who befriended Chris was a guy named Ronald Franz,
Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
Derek Vinyard is a character in the film American History X. He is a great example of an anti-hero. Before prison, Derek Vinyard character is really unlikeable and he is sickening. He was a true definition of a villain. He is a former neo-Nazi who organizes crimes to destroy families and humiliate people. He even treats his own family with disrespect, such as in a scene where he grabbed his sister by her hair and shoves food down her throat. Later he spent three years in jail for man slaughtering two black men. He shot one and the other, he brutally curb-stomped to death outside his house for trying to steal his truck. In prison, he becomes friendly with a black inmate and was rapped by members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Upon release from prison,
Maxwell has a return from the archetype of the hero?s journey. Maxwell returns by saving Iggy Lee?s life and his own. Maxwell gets all his love from his grandparents, because now they believe that he is not like his dad (Killer Kane). When Maxwell returns, his best friend was about to die, because his organs were getting to big for his body, but while he was dieing he gives Maxwell a empty book saying, ?Max please write all the adventures and everything we have done together, this will make me feel better?.
Identify the different steps in the Hero’s Journey and their correlating parts in the story that Montag goes through.
Marty has an eidetic memory, is extremely curious, and enjoys going on adventures that involve extreme risk. These last two things can get him into trouble, and have in the past. He is athletic, has no fear, and is artistic. He loves drawing comics and playing practical jokes.
middle of paper ... ... In conclusion, Marty becomes a better person after he has companionship with Claire. He has started a relationship with her due to the attraction theory, his and her’s self-concept is raised, and although he and Claire broke the rules of self-disclosure, they became better people. Marty was happier than Claire when they met each other.
The departure stage of the journey includes the call to adventure, a mentor or aid, and the belly of the whale. The call to adventure serves as an important stage, because this is where the adventure starts. Lawson studied Joseph Campbell’s hero journey and wrote an article about it. Lawson delivers the idea that “the hero’s journey is set in motion by means of a supernatural event that casts the innocent into a strange and unfamiliar area.... ...
The hero’s journey is an outline that maps out stories and adventures. It is used to describe a layout of events, whether they are mundane or not. These steps explain how Marty McFly, from the popular movie Back to the Future, gets pushed into an adventure, changes the outcome of the future, and is forced to fix his mistakes and find a way home.
Backroads begins with Harley being questioned by the police for a crime that the reader knows not of. He delves into the story that has brought him up to this point, beginning from a year after his mother shot his father. The events in the course of this are breath taking.
Noah is the one of the main characters of The Notebook. He is the hero of this novel. Noah represents true love and true loyalty. In a way, The Notebook is similar to every modern day romance movie, and Noah represents the “dream man” that all the girls always imagine of having. The characters in movies are used to symbolize ideas, and in this novel, Noah represents true, faithful, committed love. Noah remains loyal to Allie even in the situation where he is unsure whether they will ever meet again or not.
The movie The Day After Tomorrow is about a paleoclimatologist’s, a person who studies past climates, concerns of how a shift in the world’s climate could cause catastrophic disasters to happen throughout the world. The way that The Day After Tomorrow perceives scientists is that they are determined and they often times have to make difficult decisions. In the movie the character Jack Hall, the paleoclimatologist, displays these two characteristics.