SPAlyssa+Velk+-+Stardust

Stardust by: Neil Gaiman (suggested for ages 13 and up)  **"In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England,**  **there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years.**  **Just to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named.**  **Here, in the hamlet of Wall, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart**  **to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester.**  **And here, one crisp October eve, Tristran makes his love a promise**  **-- an impetuous vow that will send him through the only breach in the wall,**  **across the pasture... and into the most exhilarating adventure of his life."**  ([|credit]) 

**A boy sets out on a journey to find a fallen star for the girl of his dreams** **and discovers more then he could have ever hoped to....**

Here is the trailer from the film adaptation of the book: =<span style="background-color: #eee8a7; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">media type="youtube" key="Ju-KBxzlpYo" height="315" width="560" = <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">created in 2007 <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">staring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller

<span style="background-color: #eee8a7; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 240%; text-align: center;">Characters:

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**The Situation Archetypes in Stardust**

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Quest-** Tristan is to venture to a new world in search of the fallen star, to bring back and better his life in the village of Wall.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Initiation-** Tristan, through the quest, realizes his true love and gains a new awareness with the help of the pirates.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Battle Between Good and Evil-** The witches fighting against Tristan and the Stars.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**The Character Archetypes of Stardust**

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Hero-** Tristan is the hero of the story. Saving the star from the evil witches, selfish princes and returning the princess to her to her rightful place.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Friendly Beast-** The pirates are feared by many, however they help Yvaine and Tristan run from the witches, taking them in as one of their own, teaching them how to fight and providing them with thunder.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Devil Figure-** The witches strive for the hearts of stars to gain beauty and youth. The witches chase Tristan and Yvaine obsessed and stopping at nothing.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Scapegoat-** The princes' of Stormhold, through the movie, strive to find their father's heirloom to claim the thrown. Their deaths determine Tristan's fate as king of Stormhold.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Temptress-** Victoria is what Tristan believed he wanted in the beginning of the movie. Tristan's misguided affection was wasted on Victoria's selfish, uncaring ways.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Damsel in Distress-** Yvaine is the 'star' being chased by the three witches and the princes' of Stormhold. Tristan saves and protects Yvaine through out the movie.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">** The Stages of a Hero's Journey in Stardust **

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Stage 1:** Departure; when Tristan makes the promise to Victoria, that he will find and bring back the fallen star to prove his love for her.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Stage 2:** Initiation; when Tristan crosses the wall in to Stormhold, the threshold into a new world.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Stage 3:** The Road of Trails; Tristan is given supernatural aid by the becoming friends with Yvaine, and being helped by the flying ship pirates and Yvaine's sisters the stars.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Stage 4:** The Innermost Cave; Tristan and Yvaine venture with the pirates' thunder hunting ship, to escape the witches. Tristan learns to fight and realizes that Yvaine is his true love. After finding out that Yvaine can not cross the Wall, Tristan races to save Yvaine and the fate of Stormhold.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Stage 5:** Return and Reintegration with Society; Tristan saves Yvaine, kills the witches and claims the throne of Stormhold, as their KIng.

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">([|credit]) <span style="background-color: #eee8a7; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 240%; text-align: center;">Videos: media type="youtube" key="T_xf449ggEI" height="315" width="420" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Author, Neil Gaiman reading from the novel! media type="youtube" key="Md7qa2HxoU8" height="315" width="560" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Author, Neil Gaiman talking about the book at Comic Con '07

<span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">media type="youtube" key="0h8Wf0dkMBc" height="315" width="560" <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">A book talk on //Stardust// given by a teacher to her students.

<span style="background-color: #eee8a7; color: #000080; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 240%; text-align: center;">Links:

[|Neil Gaiman's] official website

[|Stardust] official movie website

Celtic mythology: [|The Origin of Faerie]

Just for fun a Quiz to find out [|What kind of Faerie are you?]

[|13 terms] from the novel explained

[|Falling Stars] explained

A blog post explaining [|The Heroes Journey] throughout this tale (we can also see this idea explored [|here])