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David Berger's Blog – July 2012 Archive (1)
Shades of Difference Matter—Elemental Ideas
When I teach the novel, Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, I usually teach about the Mother Goddess and the Hero’s Journey. Actually, it just gives me an excuse to talk about mythology, something I could do all day. Going over this, though, shows my students that every single heroic story follows the same skeletal structure (I could go on about the Hero’s Journey in more detail, but that would take up way too much room). The basics, though, involve the journey of the hero on his or her road…
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Added by David Berger on July 17, 2012 at 7:06pm —
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