The third stage of the hero cycle is often called the Helper/Amulet stage. After the hero figure answers the call to adventure, there is always a helper of some sort who appears and will then help the hero throughout his or her odyssey. If it is not an actual helper, it will be an object that has "powers" that help the hero through the toughest fights that lay ahead.
From a psychological standpoint, this reinforces the "reality" that we really can't "go it alone" through life. We need help--and we need to accept help from even the most unlikely of places or persons or things.
Use the Personal Memoir Rubric to help guide the writing of your Helper/Amulet Essay. The techniques of the "Personal Essay Rubric" are useful, too; moreover, use some of the storytelling techniques from my post "How to Tell a Good Story," especially the use of dialogue, creating scenes that are full of images and actions and similes and metaphors, and be sure that the essay is long enough that the reader senses the importance of this helper in your life. I will not read an essay of less than five paragraph. That would be an insult to your subject.
Ideally, this helper/amulet is someone or something that has been there for you on a consistent basis and is not someone or something that was only there at "one specific moment" in your life.
Use a quote from "The Odyssey" and put it above your essay. An image--or images would help, too.
This will be made into a podcast or video, so you could get started on that, too.
Must be posted by Tuesday morning.
From a psychological standpoint, this reinforces the "reality" that we really can't "go it alone" through life. We need help--and we need to accept help from even the most unlikely of places or persons or things.
Use the Personal Memoir Rubric to help guide the writing of your Helper/Amulet Essay. The techniques of the "Personal Essay Rubric" are useful, too; moreover, use some of the storytelling techniques from my post "How to Tell a Good Story," especially the use of dialogue, creating scenes that are full of images and actions and similes and metaphors, and be sure that the essay is long enough that the reader senses the importance of this helper in your life. I will not read an essay of less than five paragraph. That would be an insult to your subject.
Ideally, this helper/amulet is someone or something that has been there for you on a consistent basis and is not someone or something that was only there at "one specific moment" in your life.
Use a quote from "The Odyssey" and put it above your essay. An image--or images would help, too.
This will be made into a podcast or video, so you could get started on that, too.
Must be posted by Tuesday morning.