Help !! Explain the beginning of the protagonist's (Jonas) journey using the first three steps of the Hero's Journey archetype to guide your explanation. (You can go back to activity 1.3 to see the steps and refresh your memory.)

Be sure to:

Establish a clear controlling idea.

Develop ideas with relevant and convincing evidence from the text (include at least one direct quotation) and analysis.

Use appropriate and varied transitions to create coherence and clarify the relationships among ideas (i. e., steps in the Hero's Journey).

Look at this dictionary entry: realize (ree-uh-lyz) v. to become completely aware of (something) as a fact; understand without a doubt to make (something desired or anticipated) occur to give real, definite or physical form to a plan, dream, or goal to earn (money or a profit) from a deal which sentence uses the word realize as it is described in the fourth definition? a. mike realized the gravity of the situation only when dalia explained it to him. b. only hard work and perseverance can people realize their dreams. c. he felt that his vision was realized when he finished reading the final draft of the narrative. d. fay's glass paintings are expected to realize a handsome profit. e. dan will realize his goal of going to an ivy league school only if he works hard.

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an arizona noon. these are three deans—of admissions, academic affairs, athletic affairs. i do not know which face belongs to whom. which literary device is used in phrases such as “summer-weight sportcoats” and “polished pine”? allusion alliteration irony metaphor