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There is a very loud, forgettable, blue fish that has a great monomythic journey in her staring role in Finding Nemo as the character Dory. Dory has always had a hard life because she could never remember anything, she thought this memory lost ran in the family but just couldn’t remember. When she met Marlen, Nemo’s father, and began her journey onto finding nemo, or fabio or whoever cause she could never quite remember his name, she remembered one thing, the address of where they believed Nemo was. She knew then that something there was fate and she wouldn’t give up. Dory travels the ocean into a new world and makes new friends and discoveries she had never known before. At the end of the story when Marlen leaves Dory  it makes her feel hopeless like shes nothing until she finds Nemo and returns home with him to make the story a very happy ending!

Another character who has a spectacular monomythic journey is Dawson in the series Dawson’s Creek.  At the beginning, Dawson was a young 15 year old trying to get threw high school and become a famous director when he grew up. He didn’t realize that he had the perfect house and the perfect family unlike all his other friends in Capeside. Dawson tried to create drama in his own life at times so he could have ideas for his future movies he wanted to create. Shortly after Dawson didn’t have to create drama in his own life because it just came to him slowly as he grew up. First his mother had an affair with her coworker then his soulmate and ex lover began to have relations with his best friend and eventually his father died in a freak car accident. Dawson went threw so much in his life but at the end of the series he didn’t make it home like all monomyths do. Instead he moved and stayed in LA and made his directing dream come true.

So wheather if you are a forgettable fish or a troubled teenager, the monomythic journey follows everyone in the own certain way. Things may not turned out like you plan them to be but it is always for the best and according to the monomyth, everyone will turn out to be a hero to someone in their own special way.

In my life I have many men. I have my father, my two brothers, my uncles and guy cousins. I also have all the current guy best friends, lovers and wannabe lovers. I just can’t seem to get away from men. Sometimes the men in my life can act like different kinds of animals like dogs or pigs so i feel that i have a very strong connection with Circe from The Odyssey.

Circe i believe is described as some kind of a lover. She can’t seem to get enough of men, like myself, but the difference between us is that she has the ability to turn them into the animals they are. She is also very into magic, so i can see Circe’s archetype is as a magical lover.

I fit this archetype as a magical lover because i believe that all the love i have in my life is very magical. I’m always falling in and out of love like its nothing and my friends all know that if my heart gets broken, even in the worse situation that i am able to bring myself up and not let something effect me. To some people who will lay around for weeks or months because a boy broke their heart this is very magical. I just believe it is how i view the world different, like the goddess Circe. She doesn’t mess around if something gets in her way, especially men, so she’ll just turn them into animals!

When it comes to heros immediately i knew who mine would be. Him and I share the same blood but have not spent more than a few hours together over the last 2 years. My hero is young and strong, a military police for the United States Air Force. My hero is my older brother Donovan.

Donovan was born on June 7th 1987, the first of 3 children in the Pepley crew. He grew and reached a height of 5’10” by high school. As the senior class president, 4 year soccer and track letterman, and 1 year wrestling letterman, he was very looked up to among his peers. Donovan also was active in the school’s yearbook and journalism class as a sports writer and walked across the stage as the first person to ever not miss a day of school from kindergarten until graduation. Now that’s something. Since February 2006, Donovan has spent his days all around the world. Starting in Texas, to Japan, to Korea, back to Japan, Las Vegas, Saudia Arabia and now resides again in Japan.

Donovan is considered a hero for so many reasons. A true hero is someone who protects, gives back and never gives up. He always protected me, his little sister, from all the guys that tried to get in my pants and all the friends who have let me down. Now that I had 16 years of him to myself, it was time to move onto bigger and better things. He may be halfway around the world now, but he is still my big brother and he still facebooks the guy who i recently added to my relationship status and is not afraid to harass them. He is fighting for our country and for each and everyone of us who live in it in the Air Force. He gives back to his country so that it can still be called the land of the free.

His journey to get where he is today has been a long and curvy road, but that never stopped him from his dreams. Donovan was a breech baby and had dislocated hips at birth. He was faced with a waist-down cast for the first few months of his life and recovered. When he was 17, he almost died while cutting wood for the home when the blade from the saw cut his leg a half inch away from his main artery. Donovan has been a fighter and i believe always will be one. He fought through the hard times in our family when my mother left and still stands strong, now benching over 300 pounds, practicing for an upcoming bodybuilding competition in Hawaii.

 Nothing has ever stopped Donovan from following his dreams and doing what he wants. He usually always did what he wanted, when he wanted an didn’t care what anyone had to say. He wants everyone to have a good life and be happy and whoever has that kind of personality is definately a hero in my book. And he is not only a hero to his little sister, but his little brother and millions of Americans too. He makes a difference in his life to help serve others and not only himself. To my brother, a true hero.