It is true that most heroes have a tragic event in their life where they are on the bottom end of the fortune graph that is part of Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories outline.  Their story starts off particularly sad where something bad has happened to them but throughout the story their good fortune builds …

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Super stories have a style of there own. They have a similarity unlike other stories. A story I want to analyze is the story of Wonder Women. But specifically from the 2017 movie. In the movie you have the basic super hero plot. Wonder Women is accessed when a man arrives in the amazon endangering […]

I came to a very interesting realization when I applied the Very First Superman Cartoon to Vonnegut’s The Shape of Stories. The cartoon fit the first model almost perfectly… if you consider Lois Lane to be the main character. To make this parallel work, I’m excluding the introduction where they describe Superman’s origins and his powers, …

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Tech wakes up after a good night’s sleep. Tech finds out hes out of coffee He goes to the store. He gets more coffee He goes back home and makes the coffee. One drink later: infinite happiness (for the next few hours)

For the superhero assignment this week we had to choose a superhero story to watch or read. I am more of a video person so I went to Netflix to find a show to watch. I have never had interest in watching superhero stories so I googled the best superhero shows on Netflix to watch. I went through the descriptions of some and I ultimately decided to watch Supergirl. Supergirl is a show about Superman’s cousin. She was sent over...

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Kurt Vonnegut is definitely onto something to point out the stories have shapes that can be drawn off of an axis. There is a typical “normal” that sets the axis at zero. Then from “normal” things can either go bad or good. In the first episode of “Superman” that I watched, the “normal” started off […]