Every trip is a quest chapter 1 How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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Chapter 1
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The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge
The quest consists of 5 things
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A. quester B. place to go C. a stated reason
to go there D. challenges and
trials en route E. the real reason
to go there
A. is easy, a quester is just a person who goes on a quest, whether or not they know
B and C someone tells our protagonist to go somewhere and d something. Go in search of the Holy Grail. Go there-Do that!
E. More often than not, the quester fails at the original mission because their quest is about gaining knowledge.
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“ But consider the quest. Of what does it consist? A knight, a dangerous road, a Holy Grail (whatever one of those might be), at least one dragon, one evil knight, one princess. Sound about right?
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“The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge. That’s why questers are so often young, inexperienced, immature, sheltered. 45 year old mean either have self-knowledge or they’re never going to get it, while your average 16-17 yr old is likely to have a long way to go in the self-knowledge department.”
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. . .when a character hits the road, we should start to pay attention, just to see, if, you know, something’s going on there. Once you figure out quests, the rest is easy.”
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