SPRING

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SUMMER
SPRING
WINTER
FALL
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SUMMER
SPRING
Discreet Thresholds in a Fluid World
21s
WINTER
FALL
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SUMMER
SPRING
Culmination of life Triumph Maturity Union/marriag
e Wish Fulfillment
Birth/Rebirth Revival/Renewal Resurrection Procrea
tion Defeat of death
Waning Strength Impending Death Isolation Tyranny
Falling
Hibernation Death Disillusionment Ultimate fears
WINTER
FALL
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SUMMER
SPRING
Birth/Rebirth Revival Resurrection Procreation Def
eat of death
Culmination of life Triumph Maturity Union/marriag
e Wish Fulfillment
COMEDY
ROMANCE/ ADVENTURE
Waning Strength Impending Death Isolation Tyranny
Falling
Hibernation Death DisIllusionment Ultimate fear
SATIRE/ IRONY (MOCKS THE OTHER THREE)
TRAGEDY
WINTER
FALL
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SUMMER
Culmination of life Triumph Maturity Union/marriag
e Wish Fulfillment
SPRING
Birth/Rebirth Revival Resurrection Procreation Def
eat of death
COMEDY
ROMANCE/ ADVENTURE
LAMB/SHEEP GARDEN PRECIOUS STONE
WOLVES FORESTS/JUNGLES/CAVES DESERT DESTRUCTIVE
JEWEL
SATIRE/ IRONY (MOCKS THE OTHER THREE)
TRAGEDY
Waning Strength Impending Death Isolation Tyranny
Falling
Hibernation Death Disullusionment Ultimate fear
WINTER
FALL
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SUMMER
Culmination of life Triumph Maturity Union/marriag
e Wish Fulfillment
SPRING
Birth/Rebirth Revival Resurrection Procreation Def
eat of death
COMEDY
ROMANCE/ ADVENTURE
LAMB/SHEEP GARDEN PRECIOUS STONE
FAMILIAR ORDERED/CIVILIZEDLIGHT
Friends/HelpersCommunityFlesh/Wholeness
STRANGECHAOTICDARK
WOLVES FORESTS/JUNGLES DESERT DESTRUCTIVE JEWEL
Foes/DragonsIsolation/IndividualBlood/Sacrifice
SATIRE/ IRONY (MOCKS THE OTHER THREE)
TRAGEDY
Waning Strength Impending Death Isolation Tyranny
Falling
Hibernation Death Disullusionment Ultimate fear
WINTER
FALL
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Now Connect this to Experience

• Rituals and Coming of Age
• Cycles of Life Transitions Macro and Micro
• Connect this to Venus and the Caves
• And then connect to LiteratureNarrative
  metaphors of life

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The Quest

• A Questor
• With a place to go
• For stated reasons
• Facing obstacles and eventually (and ironically?)
• Finding the real reason for the journey

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What is the real reason?

• Knowledge
• Greeks Anagnorisis (gnoknowledge)
• Joyce Epiphany
• Comic Books Light Bulbs

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Knowledge about What?

• Their World (and their place in it)
• Mortality
• Their Community (its values, expectations, mores)
• Selfishness v. Seflessness
• Sacrifice
• Themselves (Self-Identity)
• Who Am I?
• Father/Mother Atonement

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Works of Literature Fresh

• Through the Tunnel (the tunnel)
• Scarlet Ibis (the glade and the storm)
• The Interlopers (the forest)
• The Most Dangerous Game (the island/jungle)
• By the Waters of Babylon (the city)
• Romeo/Caesar (the wedding/the tomb in RJ JC?)
• Mockingbird (the courtroom and the forest)
• Mice And Men (their goalthe farm)
• Miracle Worker (the garden house)
• Black Boy (Chicago)

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Sophomore

• Huck Finn (the river)
• Gatsby (Valley/Ashes?)
• Scarlet Letter (the forest)
• YGB (the forest)
• Death/Salesman (the dream sequences)
• Catcher/Rye (NYC)

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Childrens Films Initiates

• Shrek
• Aladdin
• Charlie and Chocolate Factory
• Lion King
• Beauty and Beast
• Toy Story

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Films? (student ideas)