Personal essay: In the introduction to his book, Storytelling & Mythmaking: Images from Film and Literature, Frank McConnell explains:
You are the hero of your own life-story. The kind of story you want to tell
yourself about yourself has a lot to do with the kind of person you are, and
can become. You can listen to (or read in books or watch in films) stories
about other people. But that is only because you know, at some basic level,
that you are – or could be – the hero of those stories too. And out of these
make-believe selves, all of them versions of your own self-in-the-making, you
learn, if you are lucky and canny enough, to invent a better you than you could have before the story was told. (3)
Briefly discuss what you’ve learned from a minimum of three of the characters (protagonists and/or antagonists) that we’ve encountered this semester. How have they (or will they) help you “invent a better you”? (Note: This is a deceptively easy question; please treat it with the same depth and breadth as any of the others.)
