revelation essay draft 1 revised

A trope is a familiar theme that is continuously repeated in many stories and films as figurative language that can be portrayed through the characters, plot, or setting. A few examples of tropes are: the arrogant teacher, sympathetic people, eccentric detective, smart but dorky sidekick, happy endings, struggle between good versus evil, heroes always defeat the villains. One type of a trope is the revelation trope. A revelation is realizing that everything is not what it seems. An enlightening revelation changes your outlook/ perspective on life. Revelation reveals the unknown and is like an epiphany that begins the process of starting with your newfound insight. Crucial elements of a revelation trope consists of a prophet (who is the revealer and usually comes before disciple), the disciple, life changing views, insight/enlightenment, learning to think for yourself. Many times something big must happen to the revealer for it to process the disciple. Other times there is resistant to the message. Those that oppose the revealer tend to be portrayed as the ‘bad guys’. Throughout time the adaptations of tropes and revelation tropes have been used to convey a message to the audience. Revelations offer the audience life-changing experiences, overcoming unacceptable situations, self-reliance and self-discovery. Sometimes the revelation will cause the disciple to fight society norms; like standing up to an inappropriate authority figure.

Revelation story idea

My revelation story is about a boy who thrives to be popular and does what is exected of him by everyone else. Slowly climbs the socail latter and beomes a jock and one of the most popular boys. but then comes along a pretty new girl that makes him question everything that he has worked for and has become.

First day as a Freshman at a new High School and Noah sets his goal to become popluar. In middle school at his old neighborhood, Noah was always picked on because of his size and looks. He was very skinny and tall but wore hand-me-down clothes from his brother, so they were 2 sizes to big. He also had over-sized glasses that took up half his face.

living prophet essay (draft 1)

In some ways, Derrick Jensen is a living prophet. Although I doubt that he would consider himself a living prophet, he has this certain outlook on life that differs from most others. The great thing about his outlook is that he finds the truth that is hidden beneath all the lies. Things that “others” try to distract us from, Derrick Jensen brings it to our attention. In the end it’s the audiences option to believe and try to do something about it. Throughout his book, the culture of Make Believe, he explores cases of racism, hate crimes, prostitution (to name a few) and tries to understand the different aspects of the ideas. He tries to show how the different ideas string together. In order to show how they align, he must first explore the ideas separately and in doing so realizes that the strings get more tangled.