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Patrick beating himself up
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The first article I read and listened to was the commencement speech given by Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman commencement speech. The article covered a speech given by Neil Gaiman addressing a graduating arts college. One thing that really stood out to me is the process of enjoying it. How enjoying the process, as challenging as it is to truly love what is happening, to love the work that you do. This has been a challenging lesson that I am learning every day of my life. I also really like what he said about underconfidence and to pretend that I am someone who could do what I want to do. I will put that into practice.

The next article I read why rejection hurts so much talked about the evolutionary origin of our self criticism. Some things that I really like about the article is the zero-tolerence policy of self-criticism. I often make myself wrong for things that I have no control over anymore and doing that really makes me negative.

Topic Brainstorm

The four ideas that I have are The Odyssey, Beowulf, Tricksters, and Dante's Inferno

Beowulf:

For Beowulf, I want to incorporate Patrick Star into the story by breaking the story of Beowulf up into 3 parts - Patrick, Patrick's Mom, and Albert. I'd retell the story of Beowulf with the twist of instead of Beowulf winning the fights, Patrick would win all the fights. The idea would be what would happen if Patrick gets his mother involved and maybe even Albert? The background I have on Beowulf is the translation I read from Seamus Heaney. 

http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2017/07/project-ideas-beowulf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf

The Odyssey:
The story of Nostos told through the eyes of Patrick in the world of Toy Story trying to find his way back home to his owner, Albert. It would that Albert went to war years ago and what was supposed to be a 10-year war I eventually got married and left Patrick behind and got preoccupied with other aspects of my life. Patrick on the other hand, crying in a box of golden corral crane machine toys prays every day that God will bring him back home to Albert. By some miracle, a crane one day picks him up but because he is so ugly, the kid who wins him throws him away into the wastebasket and through a series of adventures with inanimate objects, Patrick ends up home only to find Albert's house LITTERED. with SUITORS.
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2017/07/project-idea-odyssey.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus

Tricksters:
The story of Patrick being a trickster in every story, but Patrick actually is not playing dumb. He's just so dumb and the dialogue is a comical narrative of what happens when bad guys have to interact with Patrick. All the bad guys end up going back into their cages or whatever and never come out ever again.
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2017/07/project-idea-tricksters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

Dante's Inferno:

Patrick goes to hell and finds nobody there. In a desperate attempt to get out of hell, he goes deeper into the inferno and realizes that he has every single one of these sins and actually belongs there. Having realized that he committed all the sins himself, Patrick becomes calmer and calmer as he goes through all the punishments, the demons become annoyed and try to send him back up the ladder to get him out of hell or else they would be stuck with him. The problem? Patrick DOES NOT WANT TO LEAVE. DUN DUN DUN!
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2017/07/project-idea-dante.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)

Patrick in the inferno
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week 2 story: patrick the trickster

The time is currently 12:22AM. Albert makes a bowl of quinoa and rice.

Once upon a time, swift-footed Georgie walked down a street. At the corner of his eyes, he sees a big burly clown-man waving.

clown saying hello
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The big burly clown-man smiled at him softly and runs into the street gutters. Swift footed Georgie, braver than a brave man, runs towards the gutters. Georgie looks down and sees... this.

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"What the ****!" 

yelped swift-footed Georgie, as he jumps backward similar to how other little boys his age would jump backward if they saw what he saw.

"Uh... hey there little fella," said the clown.

"MOM!!!!!!" yelled Georgie.

"SHHHH!!! not too loud!" 

Curious, swift-footed Georgie gets closer to the clown. 

"What the HECK are you doing down there?" asked the valiant boy.

"Playing Pokemon GO"

"In there?!"

"Yes." 

"Well, you damn near gave me a heart attack!"

"I know I'm sorry, but I need your help!"

"With what?" said Georgie as he takes a step back.

"Well, could you give me a hand? I got stuck!" said the clown as he reaches out to grab Georgie.

"Probably not. My mom said not to talk to strangers." said swift-footed Georgie as he got even further back.

"Please!" cried the clown.

"Okay, I'll help you."

Georgie grabs hold of the clown's hand and pulls him out of the gutters.

"Thank God! I thought I would be down there forever!" said the clown.

"You're welcome!" remarked Georgie.

"You're a FOOL for pulling me out. I've been down there for years! Now I'm hungry!!!" yelled the clown.

"No! Please don't eat me!" cried Georgie.

As Georgie's life is about to literally be consumed, Patrick Star walks by.

patrick star walking by
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"Oh, Patrick! Oh, wise sage! Please help me!" cried Georgie.

"What's the problem here?" said Patrick.

"This clown is trying to eat me!" said Georgie, pleading for intervention.

"Sounds good! Carry on!" said Patrick as he walks away.

Georgie, feeling hopeless now as the clown slowly gnaws on his head, tries once more to ask Patrick for help.

"Patrick wait!!"

Patrick waddles back.

"Would you like to know how I got into this predicament?"

"Sure!" chimed Patrick.

Georgie explains what happened to Patrick.

"And that's how I got here!" 

patrick is confused. tenor

"So you fell into the gutter?" asked Patrick.

"No! Let me explain it again," yelled Georgie.

Georgie explains the predicament a second time.

"So you grabbed the clown and are about to eat him?" asked Patrick.

The clown enraged by this stupidity takes his mouth off of Georgie's head and attempts to explain.

"No no no! I GOT STUCK IN THE GUTTER. AND GEORGIE PULLED ME OUT!" yelled the clown.

"You got stuck and the gutter pulled you out? And now Georgie wants to eat you?" asked Patrick.

"NO!! LET ME SHOW YOU. I GOT STUCK LIKE THIS!" yelled the clown.

The clown jumps back into the gutter.

"And stuck you will say!" yelled Georgie as he runs away to his mommy.

Authors Notes:

I got the idea for this story from the anthology that we read regarding the trickster hare and the lion who tries to eat the brahmin. I thought it would be really funny to do the same story with Pennywise the clown from It. I also replaced the hare with Patrick, who is actually dumb. The story ends similar to how the trickster myth ends with Pennywise jumping back into his "cage" where he remains stuck.

Bibliography:

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912). mythfolklore

Week 2 reading Anthology

I focused on the characters in each of the stories. I particularly really liked the trickster one with the Jackal. That story gave me a good laugh. I'd like to incorporate a trickster story where Patrick Star plays dumb, but the twist is that he is actually dumb. Although he is a trickster god, he ends up trapping himself in the cage. Everything goes badly from there and the brahmin ends up getting eaten.

Next week I'll focus on something like that haha

Patrick in prison with the tattle tale strangler deviantart

Week 2 reading over view

Choose from CLASSICAL and/or BIBLICAL units for Weeks 3 and 4.

Week 3: Infancy Gospels

Week 4: Odyssey

Choose from MIDDLE EASTERN and/or INDIAN units for Weeks 5 and 6.

Week 5: Buddha

Week 6: Sindbad

Choose from ASIAN and/or AFRICAN units for Weeks 7 and 9. [Week 8 is review week.]

Week 7: Japanese Myths

Week 9: China

Choose from NATIVE AMERICAN units for Weeks 10 and 11.

Week 10: Alaska

Week 11: Great Planes

Choose from BRITISH and/or CELTIC units for Weeks 12 and 13.

Week 12: Arthur

Week 13: Canterbury Tales

Choose from EUROPEAN units for Weeks 14 and 15.

Week 14: Decameron

Week 15: Hans Christian Anderson

I am really excited for the Bible, Classical, Indian/Middle Eastern, and Celtic!

One thing that I think would be great is the story of Daphnis and Chloe by Longus. I remember Dr. Harper talking about that in class and said that a guy named Dorkon saved Chloe and that name still sticks out to me until this day! Also, the Bhagavad Gita would be a great read along with the Indian units and Gawain and the Green Knight would be cool for the Celtic stuff.

the crucifixion of patrick star
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