Presentations

I learned a lot from these presentations. Projects like Jim's were pretty good. I knew about the mystical weapon but when he analyzed it and talked about the different and deep mythologies each weapon has before it reaches the hero. That was pretty neat. Similarly, Kyle's thesis that we all want a mystic weapon but don't want our enemies to have one was intriguing as well. I think my favorite presentation thus far was Steve Nisi's because I am a big fan of Catcher in the Rye. I've only read it one time, but his presentation was definitely entertaining. He and I basically had the same thesis or paper, where we applied the traditional hero's cycle to an alternative character, but I think his was probably more insightful than mine. Henry also had a great presentation. I am also a big fan of film noir and his idea that the protagonist or the detective in these films doesn't change, while the events and situations around him to do was quite insightful. It is true, the classic detective doesn't change and that's pretty cool, especially compared to another typical hero that learns a moral and becomes a nicer person throughout the course of the story.

Presentation

Gosh...another homework assignment. I'm going to talk about Napoleon Dynamite and the paper I wrote about on his hero's journey. I'm doing this because I felt that this was the more creative of the two papers. While possibly interesting at times and enjoyable for me to write, it does not take much imagination to write the paper on the application of Underground Man's logic and its affects on the world of batman. Really, it just takes a knowledge and understanding of some of the characters in Batman. I pride myself on the Napoleon Dynamite paper for the fact that it was a difficult idea to write about and there were some stretches I had to make in order to prove some of the points I was trying to make. On that note, I am a little bit disappointed in my paper. The style I used in writing it wasn't great and other things. I guess that paper was a prime example of a good, unique idea, but the execution wasn't that good. I think my Batman paper will be more polished and better written, but a less enjoyable project and certainly not as ambitious as my previous essay.