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This is how i'm feeling at this point in the semester.  I feel bogged down with trying to find an internship for the summer.  Also i feel all my teachers laying down way to much work at the exact same time.  I guess that's typical in college tho.  On top of that the situation with the ladies isnt goin that great.  It seems like i'm not doing anything right this semester.  I can't wait for it to be warm and for this semester to be over.

I chose this image to represent the Odyssey because it shows Odyssius's voyage home.  Also if you look in the background you can see a Cyclops trying to throw a large boulder.  The sea looks to be pretty rough in the picture, but if you look you can see Odyssius standing strong at the front of the boat because he always says nothing can hurt him.  The fact that the picture is in black and white makes it look like the crew is about to enter a large storm, which little do they know will be only one of the many troubles they will soon encounter

The one major difference that I noticed was that the African tales contained gods that were animals or just visible beings in general where as the Greek gods never wanted to be seen.  As far as the narrative structure goes the African myths were all solved at the very end of the story and then it just ended.  In Gilgamesh there were multiple conflicts throughout the story and then the main conflict came with him walking.   The film that I chose to apply the “Hero” to is Tommy Boy.  Cambells criteria holds fairly true throughout Tommy Boy.  He is called to adventure right after his dad passes away and he has to save his dad’s company.  He is refused at first but then the infamous David Spade comes to his “supernatural aid.  The crossing of the first threshold would be like the first sales call Tommy and Richard(David Spade) go on.  There are multiple trials along the road throughout the Midwest.  Then he meets his goddess in shipping office. Tommy’s supposed stepmother would be the Temptress because she holds the other half of the company and is plotting against Tommy.  On Tommy’s triumphant return there is a refusal because all the shipping orders got messed up.  Then once Tommy sells all the breakpads to Zelinsky the world returns to the world of common day.  Tommy gets the best of both worlds, he sold half a million break pads and got his company back.  Then he has the freedom to live and is praised for his journey. 

(1)   The best comparison of the works in question is the similarities between “Little Red Cap” and “In the Company of Wolves.”  These stories build you up in exactly the same way.  There is a young girl traveling a lot a path to her grandmother’s house along a path that they aren’t supposed to leave in both stories. The narratives are different.  The main characters end up being very different.  It seems that the girl in “In the Company of Wolves” is in all actuality a witch.  The girl in “Little Red Cap never loses her innocence.  (2)   “In the Company of Wolves” is structured similar to “Little Red Cap.”  The story is based on a little girl who shouldn’t go alone to her grandmother’s house but does anyway, then during her travels should always stay on the path, and finally gets to her grandmothers house where the conflict in the story takes place with the wolf, but in a suprising ending I think the girl is in fact a which.  A few examples of hermeneutic code would be: why does this girl’s mother let her travel into the woods by herself, and why doesn’t she ask the man for her knife?  I chose to talk about this story because it had what I thought was a really good example of proairetic code.  When she is standing in front of the wolf at the very end of the story you have to keep reading and reading to finally find out what is going to happen and then it ends up being so twisted at the end with the girl throwing the wolf around. The readings of fairy tales are much more gruesome than those of later interpretations.  I believe that the best example of this is Cinderella.  The mother cut the toes and heels off her daughters in the stories.  This is definitely something that would have to be changed in a contemporary reading because when Disney produced this story it was to appeal to young children specifically girls.  Some parents wouldn’t want there children watching stories where parents would be sick enough to remove their childrens toes. Most parents would probably believe that would scare their children.