2. The Ordinary World and the Call to Adventure

**Have you posted your blog address on the BOOK LIST?  IF NOT. . . do that first

In this post you will connect to the ordinary world and call to adventure of the character in the novel you are currently reading.

FIRST: Set up a GADGET or a PAGE to help you make a list for the books you have loved in your past, are reading or would love to have time to read this year in grade 9.  

You can do this in a few ways:

1. You can add a links list: add a link to the cover of the book or to a website that reviews the book. (You will need to go into the LAYOUT option on your dashboard and select ADD A GADGET.) **I have done this with blogs you went to for your first few assignments.

2. You can add an image (of the book cover) and a caption. (You will need to go into the LAYOUT option on your dashboard and select ADD A GADGET.) NOTE: I have done this in the sidebar of the class blog. 

3. You can add a PAGE on which you post images of book covers and short reviews about each book. (You will do this through PAGES on your dashboard - your PAGES will show up across the TOP of your blog.) **I have added one to the top of the class blog called "Books I am reading".

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THEN: You can work on your new blog post connecting your novel to the ordinary world and the call to adventure. 

Start your post with a title (use the same title that I have).
Then introduce your post by inserting an image of the cover of the book you are going to refer to for today's post (see the toolbar at the top of the 'New Post' page. 
Finally, (you can use: http://www.easybib.com/) create a proper MLA style bibliographic citation for the book and place that under or near the image. 

It will look like this: Author's Last Name, First Name. Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, year of publication. Print.

(eg. Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Philadelphia: Quirk, 2014. Print.)

THEN WRITE YOUR RESPONSE: 

1. How is the character in your novel's ordinary world conventional OR unconventional?

2. Which sources of conflict, change, circumstance, longing, pain or sorrow (may) lead or force the character into a ‘Call to Adventure’ OR (may) compel the character to stay put in their ordinary world and ‘Refuse the Call to Adventure’?

3. Why does/might the character LEAP or BOIL?

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HERE IS A SAMPLE RESPONSE FROM LAST SEMESTER'S CLASS: (the only thing that it is missing is a direct quotation from the novel)

Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Philadelphia: Quirk, 2014. Print.

In the novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Jacob's ordinary world is conventional because he has a stable part time job at Smart Aid.  He will have a job lined up there when he graduates high school, because his family owns it.  Jacob lives in a safe neighborhood and is well off; he gets good grades in school, and has a best friend.  Jacob's ordinary world can also be considered unconventional because his current situation is destructive to his happiness.  He hates working at Smart Aid, his parents don't get along, his grandfather is losing his cognizance, and he has almost no friends.  Jacob may have a stable ordinary world; but it is not a fulfilling one.

    The call to adventure for Jacob is when his grandfather mysteriously dies.  Jacob feels compelled to visit the island where his grandfather grew up to learn more about his past, and how he died.  The sources that lead him to accept the call to adventure are his longing to understand his grandfather better, the sorrow of losing a close relative, and the pain his nightmares were forcing him to endure.  Jacob's longing to understand his grandfather better leads him to accept the call because no one in his country has any information about his grandfather's death.  The sorrow that Jacob felt from losing his grandfather leads him to accept the call because he feels finding out what killed his grandfather would give him closure.  Finally, the pain of Jacob's nightmares leads him to accept the call because he feels the nightmares will stop if he finds out what the creature was that killed his grandfather.

    The sources of doubt that Jacob has about accepting the call to adventure are the fear of the horrible creatures that he believes killed his grandfather, and the fear that his grandfather was actually a horrible person.  Jacob has doubts about accepting the call because he is afraid of the creatures that killed his grandfather, and he doesn't think he can protect himself from them.  Jacob has doubts about accepting the call to adventure because he is afraid that he might find out some horrible things about his grandfather.  This scares him because he has always idolized his grandfather, and he would be devastated if he were to find out that his grandfather was not who he said he was.

Jacob chooses to "leap" and accept the call to adventure by travelling to the small European island where his grandfather grew up. Jacob chooses to do this because he isn't happy with his current life in America, and becasue he wants answers about his grandfather. R.W. 2016