McBirney claims that the Hero's Journey is so popular because people aspire to be like the hero and can relate to them. How do stories help us understand our world? Can we learn
lessons that apply to our world from stories that follow the Hero's Journey? Explain.

Select the correct answer. which theme is evident in this excerpt from alfred lord tennyson’s narrative poem “the charge of the light brigade”? “forward, the light brigade! ” was there a man dismayed? not though the soldier knew someone had blundered. theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. into the valley of death rode the six hundred. a. the folly of ambition and greed b. the inability of humans to face death c. the heroism of unquestioning sacrifice d. the futility of obedience

How does tiresias prophecy affect the plot of the story ?

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