Chapter 1 -- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)
List the five aspects of the QUEST and then apply them to something you have read (or viewed) in the form used on pages 3-5.
(Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Quester: Harry and Dumbledore
A Place To Go: Cavern in the mountain by the sea
A Stated Reason To Go There: To find a horecrux
Challenges and Trials: They must sacrifice blood to enter the cavern then must use a small boat to ride across a lake to retrieve the horecrux. Then, Dumbledore must drink the potion that the horecrux is floating in. The potion drives Dumbledore mad and dead people rise out of the lake to attack them.
The Real Reason to Go: To show Harry that he is fully capable of discovering the horecrux's on his own. Dumbledore also wants to show Harry the way one has to think to understand Lord Voldemort's thinking when discovering and learning about the location of the horecrux's.
Chapter 2 -- Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion
Choose a meal from a literary work and apply the ideas of Chapter 2 to this literary depiction.
(206 Bones)
Dr.Brennan got a tune fish sandwhich out of a machine and she thought it might have tasted funny. It was the only thing she had eaten all day so she though it might just be her. Shortly after she finishes her sandwich and heads to her car; her stomach starts hurting from the sandwich she just ate. Suddenly, out of no where someone kidnaps her and she wakes up in a buried grave,
Chapter 3: --Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
What are the essentials of the Vampire story? Apply this to a literary work you have read or viewed.
Essentials of a Vampire Story -
- an older figure representing corrupt, worn values
- a young preferably virgin female
- a stripping away of her energy, youth, virtue
- a continuance of the life force of the male
- the death or destruction of the young woman
Chapter 5 --Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?
Define intertextuality. Discuss three examples that have helped you in reading specific works.
Definition - The interdependent ways in which texts stand in relation to one another
1) When I was reading the chronicles of Narnia I realized that the events are a lot like the ones that happen in the Bible.
2) In Animal Farm, the farm can be related to a communist country where the pigs are the government.
3) The Titanic is related to Romeo and Juliet because its a tragic love story where they both die just like in Romeo and Juliet.
