This website was designed and created by interaction designer, Danielle Perez. All the contents of this website were part of classes taken at Santa Monica College in Southern California, but will focus on her current pursuit of in Bachelor's in Interaction design (IXD).
Volger's Writer's Journey
December 2nd, 2024
Written by Danielle Perez
“Heroes often pause at the gate to prepare, plan, and outwit the villain's guards...Approach covers all the preparations for entering the Inmost Cave and confronting death or supreme danger.” (page 14)
What’s most interesting about the Inmost Cave and a hero’s approach is the many ways that it can conform to the journey.I also believe that the cave and it’s guards can take the shape of something living or nonliving. Climbing a treacherous mountain for example. A hero will have to prepare and plan for severe conditions like weather, animal attacks, and possible natural disasters. Events that can cause extreme harm and act like guards of the location that would give the Hero that information and insight that are searching for.
“You're never more alive than when you're looking death in the face.”
I couldn’t agree more with this statement. I don’t know how closely I have actually faced death, but I’ve experienced fear to the extent that I thought that I was painfully aware of how easily one wrong move or accident could take my life. In 98% of those scenarios I was in a secure harness that’s purpose was to let me look death in the face without the real danger. Once it hit that I was hundreds of feet in the air and released the idea of what could happen that would cause the end of my life. I remembered that I was alive.
“... as a foolish character refuses to learn his lesson and embarks on the same folly that got him in trouble in the first place.”
I like to call this the Universe, God, or Higher Power of your choosing, teaching us the lessons we need until we learn it. The 2% of my looking at death in the face scenarios took place at the beach or body of water, where I was close to drowning. The dangers of water are generally very clear, don’t jump into deep water if you can’t float or stay out of the water when the waves are strong, tall, and can't be trusted. I had a couple choices as a child, learn the ways of the water if I wanted to deeper explore it, stay out of the water completely, or play it safe and never go past my waist. I choose to explore and made a lot of the same mistakes that had me out of breath and eventually learned the limits of the ocean.