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A rite of passage narrative where the narrator isn't the protagonist hero that will save the day? How peculiar... but besides the simple fact that the story has run-on sentences every paragraph, the story flows nicely. I love the rite of passage tale that the boy is getting to tell where he is so eager to take down this legend of a bear, he ventures out by himself in order to just catch a glimpse of his target. Not even attempt to kill Old Ben. This kid at such a young age had more guts than his superiors and mentors to confront this legendary bear without a weapon, and he still claims he was not afraid when he encountered him.
A very interesting point stuck out to me at the very beginning where the boy is talking about animalism, or characteristics of such given that he does not explicitly state it. Anyway, this mainly caught my attention because I remember playing Sonic Adventure 2 (I'm a nerd, I know) and you had the ability to raise chao. The way you would do this is by essentially "feeding" small animals found throughout the game's main stages in order to boost your chao's swimming, flying, running, and strength attributes. You may be saying, "Noah, what's the point of all of this?" and I'll reply by saying it helps me remember what animalism is in the first place. In native american and some african tribes, they believe that consuming a certain animal will provide you with more strength, if you ate a lion, or wisdom, if you ate the meat of an owl, for instance (now these are not completely accurate, merely hypothetical examples). In some cases, they believe that wearing the blood of animals provides varying forms of luck when hunting. It's all just very interesting to me, and it makes me wonder what Old Ben would provide in this story from an animalistic viewpoint. Would he give unending endurance as to outrun any deer spotted? Or maybe the courage to fight the loch ness monster with one hand tied behind you back and blindfolded? Who knows, I just know I want to play Sonic Adventure 2 again.
And for those that missed the pun in my title, I'm ashamed of you.
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A very interesting point stuck out to me at the very beginning where the boy is talking about animalism, or characteristics of such given that he does not explicitly state it. Anyway, this mainly caught my attention because I remember playing Sonic Adventure 2 (I'm a nerd, I know) and you had the ability to raise chao. The way you would do this is by essentially "feeding" small animals found throughout the game's main stages in order to boost your chao's swimming, flying, running, and strength attributes. You may be saying, "Noah, what's the point of all of this?" and I'll reply by saying it helps me remember what animalism is in the first place. In native american and some african tribes, they believe that consuming a certain animal will provide you with more strength, if you ate a lion, or wisdom, if you ate the meat of an owl, for instance (now these are not completely accurate, merely hypothetical examples). In some cases, they believe that wearing the blood of animals provides varying forms of luck when hunting. It's all just very interesting to me, and it makes me wonder what Old Ben would provide in this story from an animalistic viewpoint. Would he give unending endurance as to outrun any deer spotted? Or maybe the courage to fight the loch ness monster with one hand tied behind you back and blindfolded? Who knows, I just know I want to play Sonic Adventure 2 again.
And for those that missed the pun in my title, I'm ashamed of you.
Comments on Ethan and Ty's posts (and Zelda's for fun).
Okay I absolutely love the title because I love Guns n' Roses for one and puns even more so that totally made my day! But I see what you're saying about how cultures believe that consuming animals provides certain things because in most modern day hunting culture and as stated in the reading when you kill a deer blood is put all over your face. Now it's not consuming the animal but it makes you feel really proud in that moment so it just reminded me of that when you made that reference.
ReplyDeleteProps on the pun. When it comes to your post, I'm glad you wrote what you did! Now that I possibly see the story as a more of a rite of passage kind of thing, I am starting to realize that the development of his character is possibly going to be about overcoming fear or getting that kill. Whatever the case, I cannot wait to see what happens between him and the bear. Also I've never played that game you're talking about but it still helped. You always put an interesting spin on things.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure this is a rite of passage story. As Tobias pointed out in his blog post, the boy already has well-developed traits and abilities. On top of that, he uses his everything he has learned to accomplish what he wanted to do (see the bear) in chapter one, not to mention the fact that he is not even the one who eventually kills the bear.
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