Toy Story Half Way Home Essay

Toy Story – “Half Way Home Essay”

Write an introduction along with body paragraph one about one of the archetypes below. It is essential that you follow the developmental formula in your body paragraph which includes both strong evidence and insight.

1. Discuss the most important threshold guardian to the plot of the movie. Include evidence and reasoning to prove why this character is the most important threshold guardian.

2. Discuss the most important mentor to the plot of the movie. Include evidence and reasoning to prove why this character is the most important mentor.

3. Discuss the most important shadow to the plot of the movie. Include evidence and reasoning to prove why this character is the most important shadow.

Structure for Introduction

Attention grabber sentence(s)/hook

Definition of archetype

T.A.G. (Toy Story a film by John Lasseter)

CLAIM: opinion (who is what archetype) + 2 reasons

Analysis Structure (Follow this order)

T.S. (general – introduce )

T.E. (evidence from film)

I.N. insight/commentary (2)

T.E. (evidence from film)

I.N. insight/commentary (2)

C.S. (concluding thought- can restate or add a new insight to wrap it up; MAKE READERS THINK!) SAMPLE ARGUMENT BODY PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE

The character ______shows ______. For example, in the film______. This shows______.

This also shows ______. Beyond this, there is also the time in the film when ______. This demonstrates

______. This also demonstrates______.

In conclusion, ______is clearly a (shape shifter, mentor, or shadow) because

______.

TPS: Text Structure and Purpose Names, hr.______

Directions: Take turns reading the text OUT LOUD with your table partner. STOP every 3 sentences and annotate things you notice about the STRUCTURE of the text (left margin) AS WELL AS the writer’s purpose (right margin).

Children need heroes in their lives, and that’s why the hero archetype is the most recognizable. Heroes motivate us. They captivate us into thinking about ways we can save others and make the world a better place. The story “Rama’s Initiation” by R. K. Narayan has one such hero – Rama. As a young boy, Rama demonstrates compassion and boldness in order to save his people from peril.

Rama’s compassion and boldness fit the hero archetype. He is bold. For example, when

Rama is about to kill Thataka, he hesitates because she is a woman. This shows Rama must have been raised to respect the women of his family and kingdom. This also shows that even in a life threatening situation he’s able to think instead of panicking, and this will save lives if he’s to be a future King. Beyond this, Rama has to make a bold decision to kill Thataka with his bow and arrow, and he does this based on Sage Viswamithra’s advice that she is no lady , but a monster. This shows Rama’s willing to kill evil in order to save humanity, and most people would run away from such a threat. Rama’s courage is rare, and it would inspire the ancient people as well as readers today.

NOW, go back to the passage and: - SUBSTITUTE ONE OVERUSED WORD-circle it as well as your replacement (examples: good, very, things, really, a lot, BE verbs – am, is, are, was, were…etc.).

-TAKE THINGS OUT: Cross out ONE UNIMPORTANT OR REPETITOUS piece of info.

-ADD: ONE PIECE OF DETAIL, CLARIFICATION, DESCRIPTION, or NEW INFORMATION- and box it.

-REARRANGE for logical flow IF NECESSARY; if not, leave it the way it is.