In the reading, Vogler continues the Hero's Journey by describing the other archatypes. The threshold Gardian was the first archatype to be mentioned. In the Hero's Journey the Threshold Gardian is a “nutral figure who are simply a part of the background of the special world. They are not the main villan or antagonist.” (49) The threshold gardian is used to challenge or test the hero.  The second archatypes mentioned was the Herold, they are the characters who “issue a challege and annonce the coming of a significant change.”  The  Herald usually is  introduced in the beginning of the story, bec to helps the character begin his adventure” (57).   They can be present in the journey as many forms, sometimes protraying an actual character; while at other times they are recognized as a poweful “force” in the journey.  In the reading vogler points out that there is not just one specific type of character that can preform the role of the Herold. Rather he informs the reader that their can be several types of herolds; some are good, others bad, and still others that remain nutral characters throughout the story.

 The next type of archatype Vogler mentions is the Shapeshifter, who“ is the most moldable character in any story, the shapeshifter is most often seen in relationships between characters of the opposite sex.

In many stories the Shapeshifter becomes the “love intrest” of the Hero.Many times the Shapeshifter turns out to be a the “love intrest of the Hero” Shapeshifter's are always changing their look , and their emotions. On some occasions the shapeshifter can turn out to be the same sex as the Hero, when this happens the shapeshifter takes on the role of an alley or friend.” The shapeshifter can function as a mask to be worn by any character, for example if in a romatic story the hero might become the shapeshifter/ friend.” (63) The shadow is another archatype who represents the dark side. A shadow can be all the negative aspects of ourselfs, and the secrets that we keep. The shadow is used as a way to challenge the Hero.

My reaction to the reading this week was that it was an overwhelming amount of material for me personally. I think I would have retained and understood more of the information if it was broken down into smaller sections. Similar to the way it was in the earlier chapters. 

I thought the reading was informative but it did not hold my attention as well as some of the previous chapters. Maybe it was due to the length of the reading or maybe because the author used less examples, making it harder to invision each archatype. Either way I found it difficult to focus on the different readings this time around.

In the future can we have the readings broken down into smaller sections?

 I did not really understand the section on Threshold Guardians, What types of  characters in film would be considered a Threshold Guardian?

 If the shadow is  a dark force, how can they be humanized or vounerable?