We will have a 50-60 point quiz tomorrow on the vocabulary and content of chapters 1-6 pof Siddhartha, so study the vocab words and discussion questions from your past several assignments,
Today we will focus on the The Hero's Journey (aka, The Quest)
First, focus on your current journey. Take ten minutes to respond to the following:
Today we will focus on the The Hero's Journey (aka, The Quest)
First, focus on your current journey. Take ten minutes to respond to the following:
Journal Entry Two
Re-examine your goal from the first journal entry. What
fears or weaknesses within you (inner obstacles) need to be overcome in order
to attain this goal? Do not reflect on outside obstacles. What knowledge or skills
do you lack at this point which may hinder your progress if not addressed?
Journal Entry Three
What mentor/helper do you have on your journey to guide you?
What skills/talents does this person possess that you would like to acquire
within yourself? What tools or gifts have you been given that will help you
along the way? What strengths do you have available within you?
Now, let's take a look at the hero's journey as we so often see it represented in myths and movies:
First, lest review the archetypal pattern of The Quest (different name for a hero's journey
Reviewe Chapters 5-6:
VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT 3 Siddhartha
Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual
Clues
Below are the sentences in which the
vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the
sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what
you think the underlined words mean
on the lines provided.
1. ... but in previous times all
this had been nothing to Siddhartha but a fleeting and
illusive veil before his eyes,
regarded with distrust, condemned to be disregarded and
ostracized from the thoughts,
because it was not reality, because reality lay on the
other side of the visible.
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2. No, this world of thought was
still on his side, and it led to no goal when one
destroyed the senses of the
incidental Self but fed it with thoughts and erudition.
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3. Then all the magic disappeared
from the young woman's smiling face; he saw
nothing but the ardent
glance of a passionate young woman.
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4. He ... learned that it was the
grove of Kamala, the well-known courtesan, and that
besides the grove she owned a house
in the town.
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5. Kamaswami is beginning to grow
old and indolent. If you please him, he will place
great confidence in you.
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6. Kamaswami came in, a supple,
lively man, with graying hair, with clever, prudent
eyes and a sensual mouth.
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7. And remembering Kamala's words,
[Siddhartha] was never servile to the merchant,
but compelled him to treat him as
an equal and even more than his equal.
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8. "If I ever go there again,
... friendly people will receive me and I will be glad that I
did not previously display hastiness
and displeasure."
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9. He saw them scold and hurt each
other; he saw them lament over pains at which the
Samana laughs, and suffer at
deprivations which a Samana does not feel.
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10. You are Kamala and no one else,
and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to
which you can retreat at any time
and be yourself, just as I can.
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Answer
the questions using a mix of your own words and embedded quotes with page #’s.
1. When Siddhartha decides to be
"present" in the world, what does he begin to notice
about it?
2. After leaving the presence of
the Buddha, what is it that Siddhartha believes he must
gain for himself?
3. What does Siddhartha's dream as
he slept in the ferryman's straw hut.
4. The ferryman tells Siddhartha
that one can learn much from something. What?
5. When Siddhartha is tempted by
the woman in the village, what stops him from
proceeding?
6. Who is Kamala?
7. Who is Kamaswami? Why does
Kamala send Siddhartha to him?
8. What services does Siddhartha
say he can perform for Kamaswami?
9. What is Siddhartha's attitude
toward business?
10. To what does Siddhartha compare
those who have no "stillness and sanctuary to which
[they] can retreat at any
time"?
Chapter 1-2 assignment from last week
Wesley 4AP
November 17, 2015
Day 1
Activity 1: What
moves you?
“Everything
had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to
think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like
a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by
yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you
respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something
absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the
man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such
ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the
old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone
for good.”
Write about a time when "everything had changed suddenly" for you.
or
Write about following your bliss...but first you have to find your bliss. What excites you? What gives your life meaning, purpose, vigor? If you're not sure, what do you think it could be? What would you most like to do/be with your life? What is your "bliss"?
"A
hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than
oneself"
-- Joseph Campbell
-- Joseph Campbell
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The usual hero is someone:
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Was Winston or Julia heroic? Why or why not?
But
Mr. Wesley, we did this freshman year! Wahhhhh!: Revisiting
The Hero’s Journey
The Hero's Journey Outline
The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of
narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in
drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological
development. It describes the typical
adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and
achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization.
Its stages are:
1. THE ORDINARY WORLD. The hero, uneasy, uncomfortable or unaware,
is introduced sympathetically so the audience can identify with the situation
or dilemma. The hero is shown against a
background of environment, heredity, and personal history. Some kind of polarity in the hero’s life is
pulling in different directions and causing stress.
2. THE CALL TO ADVENTURE. Something shakes up the situation, either
from external pressures or from something rising up from deep within, so the
hero must face the beginnings of change.
3. REFUSAL OF THE CALL. The hero feels the fear of the unknown and
tries to turn away from the adventure, however briefly. Alternately, another character may express
the uncertainty and danger ahead.
4. MEETING WITH THE MENTOR. The hero comes across a seasoned traveler of
the worlds who gives him or her training, equipment, or advice that will help
on the journey. Or the hero reaches
within to a source of courage and wisdom.
5. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD. At the end of Act One, the hero commits to
leaving the Ordinary World and entering a new region or condition with
unfamiliar rules and values.
6.
TESTS, ALLIES AND
ENEMIES. The hero is tested and sorts
out allegiances in the Special World.
7. APPROACH. The hero and newfound allies prepare for the
major challenge in the Special world.
8. THE ORDEAL. Near the middle of the story, the hero enters
a central space in the Special World and confronts death or faces his or her
greatest fear. Out of the moment of
death comes a new life.
9. THE REWARD. The hero takes possession of the treasure won
by facing death. There may be
celebration, but there is also danger of losing the treasure again.
10. THE ROAD BACK. About three-fourths of the way through the
story, the hero is driven to complete the adventure, leaving the Special World
to be sure the treasure is brought home.
Often a chase scene signals the urgency and danger of the mission.
11. THE RESURRECTION. At the climax, the hero is severely tested
once more on the threshold of home. He
or she is purified by a last sacrifice, another moment of death and rebirth,
but on a higher and more complete level.
By the hero’s action, the polarities that were in conflict at the
beginning are finally resolved.
12. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR. The hero returns home or continues the
journey, bearing some element of the treasure that has the power to transform
the world as the hero has been transformed.
ASSIGNMENT 1 for
chapters 1-2 (pp 3-24) of Siddhartha
Complete
the vocabulary below as a pre-reading activity
Complete
the questions while reading pp 3-24
VOCABULARY
Words you
may have to look up online or in dictionary:
Samaṇa;
The Pali word for shramana (a wandering monk; a shramana is one who renounces
the world and leads an ascetic life for the purpose of spiritual development
and liberation)
Brahmin
Brahman
Om:
Upanishads:
Samaveda/
vedas:
Atman:
Vocabulary
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are
the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the
sentence.
Use any
clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and
write what
you think
the underlined words mean on the lines provided.
1. Govinda knew that he
would not become an ordinary Brahmin, a lazy sacrificial official, an avaricious dealer in magic sayings, a
conceited worthless orator, a wicked sly priest, or just a good stupid sheep
amongst a large herd. _________________________________________________________________
2. Did he not go continually
to the holy springs with an insatiable
thirst, to the sacrifices, to books, to the Brahmins' discourses? (two words)
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3. Wandering ascetics, they were three thin worn-out
men, neither old nor young, with dusty and bleeding shoulders, practically
naked, scorched by the sun, solitary, strange and hostile--lean jackals in the
world of men.
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4. If you find bliss in the
forest, come back and teach it to me. If you find disillusionment, come back, and we shall again offer sacrifices to
the gods together.
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5. He waited with new thirst
like a hunter at a chasm where the
life cycle ends, where there is an end to causes, where painless eternity
begins.
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6. ... the hour was
inevitable when he would again find himself, in sunshine or in moonlight, in
shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of
the onerous life cycle.
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7. What is the holding of
breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment
of Self. It is a temporary palliative
against the pain and folly of life.
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8. "How could it be
that amongst so many learned men, amongst so many Brahmins, amongst so many austere and worthy Samanas, amongst so
many seekers, so many devoted to inner life, so many holy men, none will find
the right way?" _________________________________________________________________
9. Think, what meaning would
our holy prayers have, the venerableness
of the Brahmins, the holiness of the Samanas, if, as you say, there is no
learning?
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Assignment 1 Reading
Questions: Complete these in your notebook. Provide page #’s for each answer.
Chapters 1-2
1.
Who
is Govinda?
2.
How
do the people of Siddhartha's home town feel about him?
3.
What
has caused Siddhartha "to feel the seeds of discontent within him"?
4.
When
Siddhartha first leaves home, where does he want to go to try to acquire more knowledge?
5.
Who
accompanies Siddhartha on his journey to become Samana?
6.
What
changes take place in Siddhartha while on the road with the Samanas?
7.
What
is Siddhartha's "one single goal" on his first journey?
8.
With
what two animals did Siddhartha associate himself through practicing
"self-denial and meditation according to the Samana rules"?
9.
Who
is Gotama?
10.
How
does Siddhartha prove that he has mastered all that the Samana could teach him?
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