The Night Before Christmas as Hero Quest

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The Nightmare Before Christmas As a Hero Quest Hero quest stories are meant to teach kids how to act in society and also learn life lesions. tim burtons “the nightmare before Christmas” is not the normal hero quest story. Jack Skellington the hero of the story falls pray to his temptation and everything spirals out of control. The story is meant to show viewers what happens when people let temptations take hold of them. The movie shows these themes of a hero quest story the call to adventure, a supernatural aid, the belly of the beast, and so on. The call to adventure and temptation is caused by jacks own emptiness. He feels like he is missing something and he uses the portal to Christmas town to fill it. The new area opens ideas and fills him with happiness. One night after Halloween he feels upset that everything is always the same and he walks all night into the morning its then that he finds six trees with doors on them a Christmas Tree, Valentine’s Day – Heart, St. Patrick’s Day - Clover Thanksgiving –Turkey, Easter - Easter Egg and Independence Day - Firecracker. Jack walks over to one door and opens it this is the moment when he crosses a threshold. The first threshold is falling into Christmas town. This threshold causes a change in jack it fills his emptiness and gives him something to focus on. When he finds his way back he brings items from Christmas town such as a tree and presents. The people love it and they try to recreate Christmas and bring “cheer” to the children. They get down to the day before Christmas and jack has the same suit as Santa dose and he sets off to bring toys to the kids after a dozen or so drop off the people shoot him down and this is his second threshold he realizes he messed up and he has to right his wrongs. When he gets to ogie boogie this is the

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