Roy Roger’s Journey Through Life
Roy Rogers was born into a middle class family of farmers. He started his music career in California with his cousin. He was also in several other music groups throughout his life. His acting career began in 1935. During his acting career, he legally changed his name multiple times until he finally changed his name to Roy Rogers. He has been rewarded with many accolades.Roy Rogers is considered one of the most popular western stars of his era. Born November 5, 1911, Roy Rogers left behind a large legacy in music and acting.
On November 5, 1911, Leonard Slye, later changed to Roy Rogers, was born in Con innate, Ohio to Andrew and Mattie Slye who was a middle class farming family. Rogers joked that, ”We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight” (Rogers). His family later moved to Duck Run, Ohio where the family worked on a farm and Rogers and his father worked in a shoe shop. The family businesses were
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The Slye Brothers went on tour. When the group was on tour, Rogers met a girl named Lucille Ascolese who he later proposed to over a radio broadcast in 1933. Then in June of 1933, Rogers went on tour with another group called the O-Bar-O Cowboys. Once Rogers finished the tour with the O-Bar-O Cowboys, he decided to begin his own group called Sons of the Pioneers. In 1934, Rogers and Ascolese began to get a divorce in order. Asolses said that they were separating because she was “jealous and tired of being a musician's wife” (Ascolese). Then in 1935, Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers were given a role in the 1935 film Slightly Static. On June 8,1936, the couple became officially separated. Then in the same month on June 11,1936, Rogers married Arline Wilkins who he met in Roswell, New Mexico while on tour with the O-Bar-O Cowboys. Also, in 1936, Rogers and Sons of the Pioneers were in Gene Autry’s film, The Big Show
Leroy Anderson was born June 29, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents, as children, immigrated to the United States from Sweden with their families. His father, Bror Anton Anderson, worked as a postal clerk in the Central Square post office. He also played the mandolin. Anna Margareta Anderson, his mother, was the organist at the Swedish church in Cambridge. He lived in the suburbs of Boston for twenty seven years with his parents and brother.
Watching a film, one can easily recognize plot, theme, characterization, etc., but not many realize what basic principle lies behind nearly every story conceived: the hero’s journey. This concept allows for a comprehensive, logical flow throughout a movie. Once the hero’s journey is thoroughly understood, anyone can pick out the elements in nearly every piece. The hero’s journey follows a simple outline. First the hero in question must have a disadvantaged childhood. Next the hero will find a mentor who wisely lays out his/her prophecy. Third the hero will go on a journey, either literal or figurative, to find him/herself. On this journey the hero will be discouraged and nearly quit his/her quest. Finally, the hero will fulfill the prophecy and find his/herself, realizing his/her full potential. This rubric may be easy to spot in epic action films, but if upon close inspection is found in a wide array of genres, some of which are fully surprising.
“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us…The hero journey is a symbol that binds …. (Phil Cousineau).” Mattie Ross learns this in True Grit, by Charles Portis, when she experiences the death of her father. She says, ”…Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas and robbed him of his life and his horses and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band(11)”. Frank Ross, Matties’ father, who was shot to death, by a man named, Tom Chaney. Mattie Ross is just 14 years old in the 1870’s, she states, “Nothing is free in this world except the grace of god, you must pay for everything.(pg?)” Personal growth often comes at a great expense. She is in beginning of the separation stage in a hero’s journey, which consists of the call and threshold. Harris and Thompson define the call as, “…invites the initiate into the adventure, offers her the opportunity to face the unknown, an imbalance or injustice in her life”(50). Her father getting killed and Mattie getting vengeance, is her invite. This is followed by, the threshold, known as the jumping off point. She states, “We hit the river running…we came out some little ways down the river.”(107) She has now made it into the Choctaw Nation to assist in the pursuit, in the unknown world, “a different world full of dangers and challenges (Harris and Thompson 50)”. Next, is the initiation and transformation then, the return to the known world. You can see, Mattie encounters her call when her father was killed.
Robert Johnson is more than just another Blues man with a sad story. To sing the blues with as much soul as Robert Johnson did, you know his life was rough. The life of Robert Johnson was memorable but short. Robert Johnson was born on May 8, 1911. Robert was a product of an extramarital affair. He lived with many different father figures before moving 40 miles south of Memphis to Robinsonville, Mississippi, where he would live till his early adulthood.
This paragraph is about Roger Sherman's early life. Roger was born April 19, 1721 in Newton, Massachusetts. His parents were William Sherman and Mehitable Sherman. When he was two years old him and his family moved to Dorchester. He also farmed a lot. He was also in the business off shoemaking. He taught himself and then went to Yale University.
William Penn Adair Rogers, more commonly known as Will Rogers, was born in Oolgah, Oklahoma. Although he was mixed like his parents, he identified himself as a Cherokee. At fifty-six Will Rogers died in an airplane crash in Alaska. He was an actor, humorist, performer cowboy, newspaper columnist, and a social commentator.
Perseverance is defined as steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. This defines Sugar Ray Robinson. Sugar Ray Robinson was just a normal colored boy. He was born and raised in the South. He had a rough early life, due to the KKK, parents fighting, moving, pretty much everything that could’ve gone wrong went wrong. Then, he got involved in Boxing. He was good, and I mean good. He was so good in fact, he became known as one of, if not, the greatest boxer in history.
If you went off on a quest would you come back a changed person? “The Hero’s Journey isn’t just a pattern from myth. It’s the pattern of life, growth, and experience for all of us”(Harris and Thompson 49). Charles Portis is the author of True Grit, a western novel that takes place through the Indian Territory in Arkansas. In the novel True Grit, the character Mattie Ross, shows an interesting example of “The Hero’s Journey.” As we read we learn she is very outspoken and strong willed, she always wants things to be her way. Mattie shows us a great example of being very independent at the age of fourteen, but after her journey does she truly change as a person?
Elvis was born in 1935 in Mississippi, he was supposed to be a twin but his brother was stillborn. He grew up an only child. In 1948 the Presleys moved to Memphis, where in his high school days would hang around Beale Street where B.B. King was known to perform at, drawn into the music style of the blues. After graduating in 1953, he planned out his normal life of becoming a truck driver, and in his spare time recorded a couple songs at a recording service Sam Phillips started up that anyone could record a song for four dollars. Upon going back to the studio he met Sam Phillips who
George Strait has been a country music icon since the 1980s. George Strait was born May eighteenth, 1952 in Poteet, Texas. He was destined to John Strait, Sr. ( January 11,1922 - June 4, 2013) and Doris couser
Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. His father was an oil-driller, his unfortunately died when he was seven months old. Until Clark was two he stayed with his maternal aunt and uncle in pennsylvania At sixteen he quit school and went to work in Akron, Ohio, at a tire factory. Later, while still working for the tire factory, he decided to to become an actor after seeing the play “The Bird of Paradise.” (imdb.com) He was given the nickname “the king of hollywood” or just “the king.” He began his career as a stage actor and appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. He then later moved on to supporting roles in a few films with MGM in 1931. Clark Gable had immediate success with MGM in 1931, he made, most
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
Jim Jones was born on May 13, 1931 in Lynn, Indiana. In the film, we go back to his childhood and talk to his childhood friends who say that at 5 or 6 years old that he was always a little strange. He was not normal. He h...
Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St Louis, to William D. and Mayfield Edmondson Wilkins. The previous year his parents had relocated from Holly Springs, Mississippi. Although his father was a college graduate and a minister, the only work he could find was tending a brick kiln. Wilkins's mother died of tuberculosis when the boy was four. In his book, Standing Fast, written in collaboration with Tom Matthews, a Newsweek senior editor, Wilkins revealed that his mother, knowing she was terminally ill, had written to her sister in St. Paul, Minnesota, asking her to rear her children. His father, fulfilling her last request, sent Roy and his younger brother and sister to live with the designated aunt and uncle, the Samuel Williamses. They lived in a low-income, integrated neighborhood but stressed to the children the value of an education and moral principles. Wilkins attended the integrated Mechanic Arts High School and became editor of the school newspaper.
On April 4, 1965, Robert Downey Jr. was born in New York. At a very young age he began acting. In the 1980s he started his appearances on Saturday Night Live. Given the amazing life he was offered, he struggled trying to pursue his dreams. Although he had a great life a head of him, it was slowly deteriorating at the same time, as he struggled with the use of drugs.