Week Four Vogler Annotation...

09.30.08

Zoah Alvarado

Vogler Annotation

Vogler, Christopher. " Book Two: Stages of the Journey." Stage One: Ordinary World and Stage Two: Call to Adventure.

Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions, 2007. 83-105

Summary. 

We have now moved on from the themes of archetypes and have entered the world of storytelling stages. Needless to say, The Ordinrary World can be recognized as a place of origin, the foundation of story line, the hero's background; the Beginning. The Ordinary World serves as a contrasting figure by establishing physical or metaphysical differences between itself ans the "Special World" located somewhere beyond its boarders. Vogler writes, " The Special World can only be special if we can it in contrast to a mundane world of everyday affairs from which the hero issues forth" (87).

Joseph Campbell defines the Call to Adventure as "the new energy, symbolized in countless ways in myths and fairy tales..." (99). The Call to Adventure comes in many different forms, a messages or temptation, and may or may not be very obvious to the hero. It can be also seen or known as the call to action in which the hero or herione realizes the need for change and decides to take action in order to aquire this change.

Reaction.

I really can not say much to either reinforce or pull down what Vogler strives to confer in these sections of his book. The terms, in essence, speak for themselves and there seems to be very little need for a large imagination to understand them. Most of it makes perfect sense and can be clearly illustrated in all stories regardless of origin. Even the most bare of stories still follow along the lines Vogler point out in these two chapters.

Questions.

1. Is there anything you find yourself disagreeing with Vogler in the content of these two particular chapters?

2. Has Vogler somehow left out any element(s) in his descriptions of The Ordinary World and the Call to Adventure?

3. Can you think of any story that does not follow the same lines described by Vogler?

Words.

Foreshadowing (87): To serve as the shadow thrown before (an object); hence, to represent imperfectly beforehand, prefigure. Also rarely ( of a person), to have a foreboding of.

Sentence: To have bad credit foreshadowing you is a horrible experience.

Theme(95): the subject of discourse, discussion, conversation, meditation, or composition; a topic.

Sentence: I absolutely love going to theme parks.

Wound(92): a hurt cause by the laceration or separation of the tissue of the body by a hand or sharp instrument, a bullet, etc; and external injury.

Sentence: Many people enjoy sporting their physical wound as battle scars.