Week 5 Planning: The Trickster Revelations and Heroes Rising

The intro to my storybook is most likely going to be along the lines of a trickster (or two) coming in to the scene as two separate entities. Meaning they'll start off in a place where they are not aware of one another's presence. As I have seen in the readings, the mythology tricksters have been Gods mostly and have the ability to bend the laws of reality. In the Native American tricksters stories the tricksters were portrayed as animals and didn't exactly have the power to bend reality but instead had silver tongues to talk their way to anything they desired.

The Wikipedia website shows the same characteristics of the tricksters portrayed in the stories. It gave me more insight to how they were used symbolically.

As for the Heroes of the story book they will be men and not Gods, I think that being mortal gives the stories more edge. I really enjoyed the Achilles stories from last weeks readings and thought it was interesting how the plot showed that Achilles could die if he chose the wrong path. There are a couple ideas that I have in mind for the heroes, either Sam and Dean and the Grimm brothers, or I will make my own heroes.

The story book needs to start off with the heroes not aware of the task that will become of them, meaning defeating the tricksters. But the tricksters know of who the heroes are and are afraid in a way that they will be killed by the heroes. This will cause the tricksters to do everything they can to prevent their demise but in the long run will fail and not be able to stop the force of the mortal beings. Overall I am excited to start my storybook this next week.

The mortal man being watched by the trickster from the shadows.

Photo provided by: Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography: "Trickster" by Multiple Sources from Wikipedia

"The Slaying of Hector (end)" by A.J. Church from Homer's Iliad