Humanities Homework Help

During this discussion board activity, you will be identifying and analyzing the way(s) Stephen King conforms to—and modifies—the twelve stages (or tropes) within the Heroic Journey, as an initial step towards our whole-class discussion of how these revisions serve to reinforce IT’s function as both a trauma narrative and a Bildungsroman—a “Coming of Age” tale. Each student will be tasked with identifying, contextualizing, and analyzing one trope (Test, Allies, and Enemies) , based on their selected stage of the Hero’s Journey.To complete this activity, please follow these directions: read Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey: “Stages of the Journey,” p. 83-228 and watch Andrés Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s IT (2017).

Please write a 500+ word response to each prompt.

prompt 1: First, please thoroughly define and explain the conventional parameters and features of your trope as outlined by Vogler in The Writer’s Journey. If your trope contains a specific archetype that is critical to the discussion of that stage in the Hero’s Journey, please make sure to include some discussion of that as well. For example, “Meeting with the Mentor” would obviously need to discuss the mentor archetype, etc. Do not, however, get bogged down in a “Who’s who” of archetypes. If an archetype is not essential to the discussion of the trope you are working with, you do not need to discuss it. Your explanation should also include discussion of why the trope is positioned in its existing order in the cycle of the Hero’s Journey (i.e. why, for example, it is first, second, in the middle, last, etc.?) and what function it serves in advancing the momentum of the narrative thread (i.e. why it is necessary and essential for this trope to occur within the Hero’s Journey?). Your discussion of the trope should include, at minimum, three fully integrated quotations from Vogler’s text (example: In The Writer’s Journey, Christopher Vogler states, ” . . . “) and should be followed by parenthetical citations that identify the page number(s) of your quotations: (Vogler 55).

prompt 2: Then, once you have a thorough understanding of your selected trope, please contextualize and analyze the representation of your selected trope within Stephen King’s IT (2017). Your work here should include a detailed description of a specific moment–or moments–within the film that you think connect(s) with your selected trope. In what way(s) does King conform to the conventional representation of the trope as identified by Vogler, and in what way(s)–if any–does he challenge, manipulate, or modify it? Please follow your analysis of key scene(s) with parenthetical citations that include the director, year, and a timestamp that documents the location of the scene(s) in the film: (Muschietti 2017, 1:11:56–1:18:33).