They both center around one of the oldest themes of all: finding a way to cheat death. For example, Richard Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, one of the more modern young adult novels, shares much in common with what is acknowledged as perhaps the oldest work in all of literature the epic of Gilgamesh. ![]() I would agree that there is a series of archetypes that seems to inform virtually all literature. The author also uses the Rambo series to talk about the American myth in particular. ![]() For example, the author draws heavily from the Star Wars cycle, and the Odyssey of Homer, to show that two stories written thousands of years apart actually follow a structure that is quite similar, not just in terms of plot but also in terms of theme. ![]() The author goes through the various stages of the myth and describes how some of our most famed stories fit the pattern. ![]() Whether these are “search” stories are “hero” stories, the vast majority of stories come down to one of the various types of myths. The main idea of the article “Creating the Myth” is that, while there have been thousands and thousands of stories written over the course of human history, they all come from a very small number of universal stories.
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