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“Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)”
A Quester
A Place to go
A stated reason for
going
Challenges and trials
A real reason to go there
“Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion”
“whenever people eat or drink together, it’s
communion.”
Sharing food is an act of
community
Eating is a mundane human
need, so why write about it?
“Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”
•Attractive•Alluring•Dangerous•Mysterious•Focuses on beautiful, unmarried girls•Thrives on their vitality•They end up becoming like him
If it seems Biblical, it probably is…
• Garden of Eden• Serpent • Tree of Knowledge• Apple• Adam and Eve• Cain and Abel• Great Flood• Noah’s Ark• Abraham and Isaac• The Ten Commandments• The Ark of the Covenant• The plagues• The escape from Egypt
• Dove/lamb• Baptism• Communion• Last Supper• Sacrifice• #40• #7• Thirty pieces• Betrayed with a kiss• Cross/crucifixion• Resurrection• The four horsemen• The Antichrist
Violence: 1. provides action
2. causes plot complication3. ends plot complication
4. creates stress
Specific injury to characters
• Standard shootings, stabbings, poisonings, etc. for which the characters are guilty
Narrative violence• Death and suffering authors
introduce for plot advancement or thematic development (author is guilty, not characters)
Identifying a Christ figure:• Crucified, wounds in the
hands/feet• Self-sacrificing• Good with children• Good with loaves, fishes, water,
wine• 33 years old• Employed as carpenter• Known to use humble modes of
transportation• Believed to have walked on
water
• Known to have spent time alone in the wilderness
• Believed to have had a confrontation with the devil (tempted)
• Last seen in the company of thieves
• Creator of many aphorisms and parables
• Buried, but arose on the third day• Had disciples (12 at first)• Very forgiving• Came to redeem an unworthy
world
If you are submerged in water and …
• …you don’t come back up, you die
• Your death is significant…see previous slides
• …you emerge from the water, you are reborn.
• But that doesn’t necessarily mean life is better
“when writers send characters south, it’s so they can run amok”
Low:• Swamps• Crowds• Fog• Darkness• Heat• People• Death• The underworld
High:• Snow• Purity• Thin air• Light• Clean views• Isolation• Life• Mount Olympus
The Four Seasons:
Spring = rebirth, resurrection, beginning, cleansing
Summer = vibrancy,
life, youth, passion
Fall = aging, ending, loss,
decay
Winter = death, paralysis, loss, barrenness