In this past week, we saw in class a narrative pattern of an American scholar named Joseph Campbell. It was very interesting to see how this pattern repeats on a lot of stories and movies, even if they are different from each other. There are certain archetypes that Campbell uses in his theory or narrative pattern in order to identify easily the different characters that are going to obstacle or help in the story. This pattern is not only on stories, it can be in our own lives. For example, I will make an analysis of the "story" of my life identifying some Campbell's stages and archetypes. Maybe not all my life because it will be too long, but from an event that I consider was the start of a new stage of my life.
If we apply the Campbell's archetypes in my story, I would be the heroine. I am the central figure in what is my story. Well, the story that I will tell here stared two years ago. Since I remember I lived in Monterrey, Mexico. According to Campbell, this would be my ordinary world. One day, my dad told me and my mom that we were moving to Mexico City. My father, with the news that we were going into a new city after living all my life in Monterrey was like a herald and that event was like "a call to adventure". Obviously, I refuse to go (refusal of the call) because all my friends and special moments of my life were in Monterrey and leaving for knowing a new city scared me. After a couple of days I accept to go. Maybe in my story my mentors are my parents, because they guide me to keep going on no matter the situation; so I think meeting a new mentor or something is not in my story.
Well, by August 2011 we moved to Mexico City. Leaving my home, the city that saw me growing, and my friends was a very difficult moment for me, but I was excited to go on this new "adventure"(this moment I identify it as Crossing First Threshold). When we arrived to Mexico, I was very scared to go into the last year of Junior High School. But I knew that this change was inevitable(Belly of the Whale)and I was not in Monterrey. I identified my fears and doubts about me as threshold guardians, because if I do not know how to "open" them, I would be alone in my new school and without friends. I think with time I start to break that fears, with the help of my new friends. Even that I was very happy in that new school, there were a couple of girls that were like double-faced and believe that I do not noticed that. This girls, I identified them as shapeshifters, because they were sometimes good with me and proving that they were loyal friends but on other situations they used to temptate me about getting into alcohol, cigarettes and other weird stuff. Obviously, I do not accept that things because my objective was to enter to Tec High School and not to get into that things that would damage me.
If we apply the Campbell's archetypes in my story, I would be the heroine. I am the central figure in what is my story. Well, the story that I will tell here stared two years ago. Since I remember I lived in Monterrey, Mexico. According to Campbell, this would be my ordinary world. One day, my dad told me and my mom that we were moving to Mexico City. My father, with the news that we were going into a new city after living all my life in Monterrey was like a herald and that event was like "a call to adventure". Obviously, I refuse to go (refusal of the call) because all my friends and special moments of my life were in Monterrey and leaving for knowing a new city scared me. After a couple of days I accept to go. Maybe in my story my mentors are my parents, because they guide me to keep going on no matter the situation; so I think meeting a new mentor or something is not in my story.
Well, by August 2011 we moved to Mexico City. Leaving my home, the city that saw me growing, and my friends was a very difficult moment for me, but I was excited to go on this new "adventure"(this moment I identify it as Crossing First Threshold). When we arrived to Mexico, I was very scared to go into the last year of Junior High School. But I knew that this change was inevitable(Belly of the Whale)and I was not in Monterrey. I identified my fears and doubts about me as threshold guardians, because if I do not know how to "open" them, I would be alone in my new school and without friends. I think with time I start to break that fears, with the help of my new friends. Even that I was very happy in that new school, there were a couple of girls that were like double-faced and believe that I do not noticed that. This girls, I identified them as shapeshifters, because they were sometimes good with me and proving that they were loyal friends but on other situations they used to temptate me about getting into alcohol, cigarettes and other weird stuff. Obviously, I do not accept that things because my objective was to enter to Tec High School and not to get into that things that would damage me.
When I enter to High School, I fall in love with a boy of another program different than mine. This boy can be an allie for me, according to Campbell's archetypes. Also, this point is when have a love that I have never experienced before. This boy will help me through my story to keep going on and to advise me when possible. As I am in the IB program, the IB can be represented as a trickster or shadow. Trickster because it was absurd that we, as teenagers, get into a very hard program even if we know that in this stage "normal" teenagers go to parties, do not study,etc. Also is identified as a shadow because sometimes IB do not graduate some students because is very strict in his exams. This stage of my life has not finished, I have to fight against bad persons of things in order to reach the IB diploma and the High School certificate. Maybe, the moment that I get this diploma, May of 2015, I can get back to Monterrey or live happy and without a lot of stress of this program and the adventures that I am facing on High School.
As we can see, making an analysis of our own life stories is not that difficult. I am sure that everyone of us has someting to tell to the world. In most stories we find a hero or heroine that has to make a lot of tasks or tests in order to reach their goals and live happy at the end with new knowledge. This narrative pattern can help us identify special moments in stories as well as the characters for our easy comprehension of any story or movie.
As we can see, making an analysis of our own life stories is not that difficult. I am sure that everyone of us has someting to tell to the world. In most stories we find a hero or heroine that has to make a lot of tasks or tests in order to reach their goals and live happy at the end with new knowledge. This narrative pattern can help us identify special moments in stories as well as the characters for our easy comprehension of any story or movie.
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