The Hero's Journey
A universal story structure that can be applied to many stories as a way to analyze and compare them. The Hero's Journey is one example.
What is an archetype?
A show about a drug manufacturer with the nickname Heisenberg.
What is Breaking Bad?
This computer software, developed by Sean Parker, allowed people to download music illegally.
Santiago is looking for these in Egypt.
What are the Pyramids?
The name of Lafayette and Pharaoh's housing projects.
What is Henry Horner Homes?
Santiago could be described as this type of character, because he grows and changes most, even though he isn't exactly Superman.
What is the hero?
This 1970s movie about the Italian mafia is sometimes called the best movie of all time.
What is "The Godfather"?
Beyonce's husband's real name
What is Sean Carter?
The book uses this two-word term for a person's purpose in life.
What is 'Personal Legend'?
The genre of There Are No Children Here
What is nonfiction?
The moment when a hero is presented with their quest.
What is the call to adventure?
This star of the movie 'Black Panther' passed away in 2020 at age 43.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
This artist might have fallen off of his roller skates at the 2024 Super Bowl.
Who is Usher?
Santiago "talks" to this body part of his.
What is his heart?
Lafayette and Pharaoh's mother
Who is LaJoe?
A type of motivation that a hero gets from inside of themselves.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This Disney movie stars Denzel Washington as the head coach of a high school football team.
What is 'Remember The Titans'?
One famous album of hers claims that she had a "miseducation."
Who is Lauyn Hill?
The Alchemist was written in this language before being translated into English.
What is Portuguese?
The name for types of articles that appear in magazines or newspapers.
What is journalism?
The moment when a hero is in the most danger.
What is the belly of the whale?
The series of sports-related documentaries produced by ESPN, whose name comes from the number of films that they produced first.
What is "30 for 30"?
This is considered to be the only type of music that truly originated in the United States.
What is jazz?
The author uses this literary device many times, but mostly in the end of the book.
What is personification?
The end of the book's subtitle, "The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in ______."
What is "The Other America?"