Mark Twain's 'Every Trip Is A Quest'
Daniela Robles
Period 5
How To Read Literature Like a Professor Assignment
Chapter One- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except when It's Not) In literature, a quest has 5 aspects. They are: our quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. In Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, our quester is Huckleberry Finn himself. Huckleberry Finn is unhappy with his life, and the way everyone is trying to make him be. He seeks adventures. A place to go is Jackson’s Island. After running away, Huckleberry plans to live in Jackson’s island, but plans change and eventually he finds himself heading down the Mississippi River with Jim. The stated reason to go there is that Huckleberry wants to …show more content…
There is the violence that characters produce to themselves or to other characters, such as bombing, stabbing, poisoning, hitting etc.., and then there is authorial violence. Authorial violence is death and suffering that the authors create for the good of the story. In, The Great Gatsby, both types of violence are present. Jay Gatsby “accidentally” kills Myrtle. which is actually not an accident. The author is the real murderer, he made Jay kill Myrtle for the good of the story. After finding out that Jay killed Myrtle, Myrtle’s husband is outraged, so he shoots Jay. This is violence caused by the acts of another …show more content…
The mother figure is an archetype for example. In literature, the mother figure will typically be someone who guides or directs a child. In the stepmother role, this is someone who isn’t very kind to their stepchild. The stepmother is an archetype that we see very frequently, especially in fairy tales. In Enchanted, Giselle is sent to New York by her evil stepmother, Queen Narissa. The stepmother in fairy tales is typically always evil. In Cinderella, she is treated as a slave by her evil stepmother. Or the classic Evil Queen from Snow White. The Evil Queen sends out for somebody to rip out Snow White’s heart. These aren’t exactly “loving” acts, which is why they fit into the stepmother
Period 5
How To Read Literature Like a Professor Assignment
Chapter One- Every Trip Is a Quest (Except when It's Not) In literature, a quest has 5 aspects. They are: our quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, and the real reason to go. In Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, our quester is Huckleberry Finn himself. Huckleberry Finn is unhappy with his life, and the way everyone is trying to make him be. He seeks adventures. A place to go is Jackson’s Island. After running away, Huckleberry plans to live in Jackson’s island, but plans change and eventually he finds himself heading down the Mississippi River with Jim. The stated reason to go there is that Huckleberry wants to …show more content…
There is the violence that characters produce to themselves or to other characters, such as bombing, stabbing, poisoning, hitting etc.., and then there is authorial violence. Authorial violence is death and suffering that the authors create for the good of the story. In, The Great Gatsby, both types of violence are present. Jay Gatsby “accidentally” kills Myrtle. which is actually not an accident. The author is the real murderer, he made Jay kill Myrtle for the good of the story. After finding out that Jay killed Myrtle, Myrtle’s husband is outraged, so he shoots Jay. This is violence caused by the acts of another …show more content…
The mother figure is an archetype for example. In literature, the mother figure will typically be someone who guides or directs a child. In the stepmother role, this is someone who isn’t very kind to their stepchild. The stepmother is an archetype that we see very frequently, especially in fairy tales. In Enchanted, Giselle is sent to New York by her evil stepmother, Queen Narissa. The stepmother in fairy tales is typically always evil. In Cinderella, she is treated as a slave by her evil stepmother. Or the classic Evil Queen from Snow White. The Evil Queen sends out for somebody to rip out Snow White’s heart. These aren’t exactly “loving” acts, which is why they fit into the stepmother