My Journey

ordinary world: school, home, and work. Not much to my journey....yet. Parents, friends, brothers, and sisters; all simple people in my journey. Though, they are the people that make my journey.

call: my job. they need me. they hired me. school. i need it.

refusal: how is my future going to play out if i struggle in school and my job? what's going to happen?

mentor: those simple people who make up my journey with me.

threshold: i decide to make my future. i decide to do well in school and my job. and hopefully this will strengthen my future.

tests, allies, enemies: the people that fail me. the failures i make along my way. the people i meet that break me down, not build me up.

approach: i start in the present and forget the past. i bring on the future and it leads my path.

ordeal: i graduate and start a new journey...called college. my new future starts.

reward: i attend the college i have always wanted to go to. i make myself and my parents proud. i have done what i always set out to do.

the road back: i made my future the future i've always wanted.

resurrection: i made it on my own and i'm ready for whatever comes.

return with elixir: thought it was hard to get the future i've wanted...i got it.

Film Analysis

Newsies:

OW: A poor newspaper boy wanting something bigger and better. Stuck in New York. Just him, his papers, and empty pockets.
Call: The Newsies are sick of barely getting paid for selling newspapers. They barely make enough money for themselves.
Refusal: How do the Newsies even begin to try and raise the price of a paper? They really don't have any plan. They think if they can't fix it, then who can? They feel inferior and small.
Mentor: Denton works for the newspaper back home. Taking pictures for the papers and capturing the news the world ought to hear. He hears these boys' story and wants to help.
Threshold: The Newsies decide to go on strike! So with Denton's help, they do.
Tests, allies, enemies: The Newsies need help and support to make this strike happen. And who better to go to for that help and support then other local Newsies?! They get the one and only Spot Collins to join the strike. Does he at first? No. But he pulls through for the Newsies. Mr. Pullitzer, the enemy, will not let this strike go on; though it continues. Some Newsies won't join the strike, and it's like they betrayed their own brothers.
Approach: The Newsies try everything they can think of that pertains to striking. Not selling papers, ripping them up, refusing anything to do with newspapers.
Ordeal: Jack, the main Newsie, can't take it anymore. This striking thing to him isn't working. So what happens to Jack? He becomes one of Pullitzer's puppets. All the other Newsies hate him for it. He went back on his word. He betrayed his brothers.
Reward: The Newsies win! The strike is over.
The Road Back: Jack is back, as a real Newsie, not one of Pullitzer's Newsies.
Resurrection: Jack realizes good things happen to good people.
Return with Elixir: Jack finally gets his dream, does he take it? No. because once a Newsie, always a Newsie!!

Ordinary World

Her Life's Journey:
She's just a girl, a girl waiting for her future like anyone else. She wants the past behind her and the future in front of her. She's going to school. She's getting good grades. She's applying to colleges and hoping she'll get into the one she wants. She's has tons of friends who support her in everything she does. She messes around cause she's living her life. But what if her life doesn't turn out the way she planned? She's now failing every single one of her classes. She doesn't know what college to go to so she stopped filling out applications. She got fired from her job and has been unemployed for quite some time now. Nothing is going according to plan. Her friends hate her. Her parents resent her. Her life is going down the drain. She's stuck in her own failure. She gets out. She lives her life. She rises to her potential. She's back on her feet and ready to face the world. She prepared to take anything thrown at her.

Give her a task, and she'll turn it into a challenge.

This is no grand expedition. This is no adventure. This is her life. This is her journey.

Questions:
1. What if she never got back up?
2. Why would she even want to try and succeed after failing?
3. How does rising to your potential and always trying again make you stronger?

Adaptation (Blurbs)

If I Ain't Got You
Most people search the world for things they don't have. They loose sight of what's really important. A life without love is no life at all. We look too much on the outside and don't see what's on the inside, that stuff is just as important. It's simple,...without you, there is no me.

Secrets
We hide things we don't want to be found. We're not perfect, everyone has secrets. We sometimes can't live with all of these secrets and lies and regrets, so, we confess them. We give them away. We lose ourselves in all of it. We keep things to ourselves, we're only human.

Someday We'll Know
We won't know everything at that moment we need to know them. Everything happens on its own time. We'll know when we're supposed to know. A twitter patted girl and a love smitten boy will know they are in love...for real...just not today.

My Story

My story begins on that day, that day everyone told me that everything was going to be okay.

They lied.

This world I called home was not a home at all.

It was a trap, I was trapped in my own world.

Nothing I did was right, nothing was making any sense.

I had been here before, I can't remember anymore how I got out.

Did I get out? Am I still trapped?

I'm losing my memories. What was I even doing here?

Why was I the only person apart of this story?

I keep trying to run through my mind for any lost thoughts.

None are found.

I can't find my way back, where is back?

Am I going forward? I keep running in circles trying to get back, where ever back was.

Still, I am alone. Still, I must be trapped in this strange story.

Is this even my story?...?...?...?