In my group project the story we chose was Sean’s story of how he needed to pass a math class in order to obtain acceptance into a University. We chose this particular story out of everyone else’s because it was the only story to was well correlated with that of the Hero’s Journey. Even although it was well correlated with that of the Hero’s Journey there is still much room for a number of changes in a variety of ways. Originally, our group had decided that this short story was going to be coherent with the genre of Drama and Comedy. Recently, we have decided it would be best to change this instead to the genre of Satire. The category of Satire is much more suitable, there are so many things that occur in this story that are both dramatic and humorous. With the villain being named Mr. Adolf, and the mentor’s name is Mr. Aristotle. Our main character John has a long journey ahead of him in order to get his math credit, that will ensure his acceptance into a University. One of the main things we want to change about this story is how main character John has no other options but to take the horrible villainous math teacher Mr. Adolf. Seeing how that would have a much more realistic emphasis on the story because within every college there are a number of different teachers that teach just one common subject. Our decision to emphasize this even more is to convey how he unluckily signed up for classes too late, and all the good teachers for liberal arts math filled up fast. As soon as John looks up on the website ratemyprofessor.com; he realizes waiting until last minute to sign up for classes was his biggest mistake of all. The website will reveal to him how the teacher he had no choice but too pick was down right horrible, with a rating of negative 5 on the rate professor scale. That particular rating for a professor could not get any lower. John will have no choice but to bite the bullet and take this god awful teacher. Personally I think we should make Mr. Adolf even more cruel, providing more twisted sick jokes to ridicule John. Another thing I believe we should change is to make the girlfriend Sarah come up with more plans with John, before dumping him on the spot. Making it even more of a bigger let down for John when she dumps him; indicating more in depth to how she’s the Shapeshifter in the story. Also could heighten the audiences empathy for John, after he receives an F on his mid-term exam. I think she should come up with a plan to live with him the following semester and they should go looking for apartments and what not to pick out when they go to the University together. These things are all the things I would personally like to change in the story.
