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Your Protagonist's Hero’s Journey
Select Passages for Your Designated Plot Archetype
Plot archetype= designated stage of your protagonist's journey to maturity
Find three passages from the novel that help you find answers to the bulleted questions on
the blue sheet. Place those passages in the graphic organizer below and complete each of
the steps.
Consider the following questions:
➔ To what extent does your author follow this stage of the hero’s journey?
➔ How does he depart from the plot archetype? Why would the author
include those departures? How does the departure characterize the
protagonist and the time period and society in which he lives?
Novel:Bless Me, Ultima Protagonist: Antonio
Passage 1 In my own lifetime I have seen a woman so judged, because her body
crucial literary burned with pain at the sight of the cross. So if Ultima cannot step
device: through the threshold, then our work tonight has just begun. But if she
crosses the threshold, then she can never again be accused of
witchcraft-we call God as our witness," he finished and stepped back.
All the men made the sign of the cross and murmured a prayer.
(Anaya 134)
Passage 2 They could not understand why the owl had attacked Tenorio; they
crucial literary could not understand the power of Ultima. But she had
device: walked through the door, and so the power of Ia curandera
was good.
(Anaya 134)
Passage 3 “I bent down and picked up the two needles that had been stuck to the
crucial literary top of the door frame. Whether someone had broken the cross they
device: made, or whether they had fallen, I would never know.”
(Anaya 135 )
What rich parts of the passages selected will you quote and focus your analysis?
Underline or highlight those parts in the chart above.
- Passage 3
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