Blog 13(half complete)

As I said in Blog 11 the book I have chosen was Fallen by Lauren Kate. The approach I plan on using is Archetypal Criticism. The main characters, Luce Price deals with shadows haunting her since she was 7 years old, while Daniel Grigori deals with falling for the same woman every 17 years. Both deal with Archetypal Criticism in there own way, but both deal with the same Archetypal, the death-rebirth myth. Daniel is doomed to fall in love with the same girl every 17 years and with a kiss she dies. Luce doesn't know about it yet but she's the woman that Daniel falls in love with every 17 years. With a kiss from him Luce dies, and is then reborn as a new person, and 17 years later she meets Daniel again. The reason why they're both doomed to this life is because one is a fallen angel while the other one is immortal. The death-rebirth myth was discovered by James G. Frazer, a Scottish anthropologist. Fallen follows Frazer's theory, death(Fall), rebirth(Srping). Basically Frazer theory is: the death stage comes around the fall when the final crops are havest while the rebirth stage comes around when you see the first sign of crops blooming. In the prologue, just by the way of the words, the author describes the setting of the place and weather.