Quest Story

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By: Letitica (43 month(s) ago)

I would like to use this in my mythology classes, can you please send it to me?

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A quest is a journey towards a goal used in mythology and literature as a plot. Quests can be found in the folklore of every nation.

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Quests are descriptive and dramatic as possible. Make good use of adjectives and adverbs picture for the reader; -Where the action is taking place (setting) -What the weather is like - this can create atmosphere -For example, stormy, cloudy, sunny... -What the people in story are feeling and thinking during the story.

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The hero who can be an ordinary person or a knight given task by king. He is called for a journey. He leaves his hometown to reach his aim.

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The hero's normal aim is to obtain something, or someone, by the quest and with this object return home. The object can be something new, that fulfills a lack in his life, or something that was stolen away from him. It can also be a lack in the life of, or something stolen from, someone with authority to dispatch him.

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On the way, there are obstacles and temptations for the hero.

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The heroes have fellows throughout the journey.

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Quests continued in modern literature. Many, perhaps most, stories can be described as a quest in which the main character is seeking something that he desires, but the literal structure of a journey seeking something is, itself, still common.

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A familiar modern literary quest is Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings. The One Ring, its baleful power, the difficult method which is the only way to destroy it, and the spiritual and psychological torture it wreaks on its Bearer, is used by J. R. R. Tolkien to tell a meaningful tale of friendship and the inner struggle with temptation, against a background of epic and supernatural warfare.

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Hero arrives his hometown as matured one.