Quest Storyboards

Using a movie or television show as a reference, complete the six-box quest storyboard chart. (Download here if you lost the copy you received in class.) Each section should be illustrated (to the best of your ability; quality stick figures count) and have a brief sentence or two describing that element of the quest.

The six boxes should be completed as follows:

1. Quester: Who is it that goes on the quest?


2. Destination/Prize: Where is the quester going; what does s/he expect to gain?


3. Mentor: Who is it that provides the quester with the guidance and wisdom needed to successfully complete the quest?


4. Challenges/Trials: Divide this illustration box in half and provide two examples of the obstacles the quester must overcome to succeed.


5. Underworld: What is the quester's brush with death/mortality or other symbolic (sometimes, literal) journey through the underworld?


6. True Objective/Self-Awareness: Regardless of whether the quester achieves his/her goal, what new awareness does s/he gain?

Use Chapter One from Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor as a guide for steps 1, 2, 4, and 6.

This homework assignment is due Friday, Sept. 10.