1. Paul Apolinario English Department Bishop Alemany High School
Beowulf & Star Wars
an epic “Call to Adventure”
Paul Apolinario
English Department
Bishop Alemany High School
Selling your ideas is challenging. First, you must get your listeners to agree with you in principle. Then, you must move them to action. Use the Dale Carnegie Training® Evidence – Action – Benefit formula, and you will deliver a motivational, action-oriented presentation.
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2. Purpose: Comparison Study
Key scenes from Beowulf and Star Wars, will show the transformation of the hero from a novice to one ready to confront his destiny, and in so doing we gain a modern insight into the problem of evil.
Open your presentation with an attention-getting incident. Choose an incident your audience relates to. The incidence is the evidence that supports the action and proves the benefit. Beginning with a motivational incident prepares your audience for the action step that follows.
Archetype of the journey ALL the heroes we will study take from Beowulf, Gawain, Frodo, Luke, Harry Potter
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3. IN MYTHOLOGY “Call to Adventure”
Destiny's herald is usually someone or something fairly ordinary--a frog, a deer in the forest, or in this case a humble droid
Next, state the action step. Make your action step specific, clear and brief. Be sure you can visualize your audience taking the action. If you can’t, they can’t either. Be confident when you state the action step, and you will be more likely to motivate the audience to action.
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4. IN SEARCH of the WISE AND HELPFUL GUIDE
Threshold Guardins: block the way to adventure
Wise and Helpful guide
Provides advice and tokens
Interprets herald messages
To complete the Dale Carnegie Training® Evidence – Action – Benefit formula, follow the action step with the benefits to the audience. Consider their interests, needs, and preferences. Support the benefits with evidence; i.e., statistics, demonstrations, testimonials, incidents, analogies, and exhibits and you will build credibility.
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5. The Threshold Hero must leave familiar life behind to begin JOURNEY
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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6. Into the LABYRINTH Symbol of the difficult JOURNEY into the unknown
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
Death Star
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7. Heroic Deed ‘Traditional’? Knights to the rescue 1/3/2019
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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8. Challenge of MORTAL COMBAT
Hero experiences an initial rite of passage
He puts aside his youthful identify and assumes a new role– one who is ready to sacrifice his life for his cause
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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9. GOOD TRIUMPHS in the End
Heroes are recognized for their deeds of valor
also represents the start of the next stage--further initiation of trials
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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10. THE DARK ROAD OF THE TRIALS--THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Long and perilous path of trials, tests, and ordeals that bring important moments of illumination and understanding
Along the way, monsters and barriers must be passed
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
Ultimately the hero must undertake the fearful journey of the descent into darkness
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11. BELLY OF THE BEAST
MYTHIC MOTIF is the "swallowing up" of the hero by a large monster +
where transformations occur
the eventual escape represents a spiritual rebirth
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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12. THE SACRED GROVE
mythic motif; it represents an enclosure where the hero is changed
FORESTS symbolize the unconscious mind, where there are secrets to be discovered and perhaps dark emotions or memories to be faced.
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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13. PATH OF ATONEMENT
a "father quest." After many trials and ordeals, the hero finds his ‘father’ and becomes "at one" with him.
Reconciliation that the past is part of him & that the future is within him
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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14. THE HERO'S RETURN marks the end of the 'road of trials
hero must return from his adventures with the means to benefit his society
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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15. THE SHADOW RISES
Forces of evil, like heroes can also recoup their power and grow with new strength
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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16. The Positive “Anima"
personification of the feminine aspects of his psyche -- the balance
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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17. THE ENCHANTED FOREST both dangerous and helpful Nature vs. Technology
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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18. THE HEART OF DARKNESS - RETURN OF THE JEDI
HEROES MUST at last enter the "heart of darkness" the fortress of Evil itself
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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19. THE FINAL VICTORY
DESTRUCTION OF EVIL IS NOT ALWAYS accomplished by sheer physical force or cunning
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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20. Masks or Illusions
mythical ritual to strike fear or invoke supernatural powers
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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21. At-one-moment or ATONEMENT
Evil is released
Imprisonment of an innocent is over
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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22. JOURNEY'S END
Triumph of the mythic hero's journey--he has brought back from his adventures, the means for the regeneration of his society
Hero represents HUMANITY and it’s success in following a spiritual path between light and dark
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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23. Question The STAR WARS TRILOGY ends with GOOD WINNING OUT.
Must GOOD WIN OVER EVIL all the time?
What does the victory say about WHAT THE "BEOWULF" SCOP BELIEVED?
To close, restate the action step followed by the benefits. Speak with conviction and confidence, and you will sell your ideas.
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24. END OF THE HERO JOURNEY
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