The Wolf of Wall Street Post 3

     The Wolf of Wall Street has many Archetypes, but the most important one in my opinion is Jordan's Hero's Journey. Like I explained in my first blog post he goes from being, 

" lower then pond scum" to a big millionaire on Wall street.

    Another Archetypes that is in the book is Hero and sidekick. Jordan in this case is the hero he is the guy in charge he has the talent and the ideas for everything. Donnie which is Jordan's best friend or "sidekick" helps Jordan when Jordan is in need and he brings Jordan up. They become a dynamic duo some might say,because they both started out with nothing and got so far. In this quote it is Jordan talking about how loyal Donnie is to him. 

"My warriors, who won't take 'No' for an answer. Who won't hang up the phone till their client either buys. Or ******* dies!" 

   An Archetype that is seen all through out The wolf of Wall Street is the Devil figure. Usually the Devil figure is a human but, in this case it is Jordan's drugs. These drugs made him make irresponsible decisions. He goes on in the book and boasts about how many he takes on a daily basis. In the story he says,

"On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out,cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine ... Well, because it's awesome."

 This shows that he is under the influence at all times. In most cases this is not good and this reflects on him for the worse. He ends up getting in a car accident, crashing his helicopter, and flipping out on his family.

Wolf of Wall Street Post 2

If you changed some elements in the book, the Wolf of Wall Street the whole lesson or theme would be totally different. If the main character Jordan Belfort was not on drugs most of the mistakes he has made wouldn't have been made. It says in the book,

 "On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out,cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine ... Well, because it's awesome."

Jordan taking this many drugs daily was not good for his actions, let alone his health. Jordan would not have crashed his helicopter because he was high. He also wouldn't have went crazy and got in a big fight with his wife and tried to take his children away from her, he wouldn't have went to jail either.

Another theme that would be totally different if elements were changed would be if he never met his best friend Donnie. Donnie and Jordan started Stratton Oakmont, because they were tired of getting treated like pond scum. It says in the story,

"You're lower than pond scum" said my new boss..."

If Donnie was not in Jordan's life I believe Jordan would be successful, but not as successful as he was at Stratton Oakmont. Also if Donnie was not in the story Jordan wouldn't have went to jail for as long because half of the things Jordan went to jail for was Donnie's fault. He also wouldn't have been caught telling Donnie to not confess to the police because he was wearing a wire. I do not believe that this story would be better if there was no drugs involved. If Donnie was not in the story I believe it would still be around the same, but I just believe he would not be as big as he was. What do you guys think that the story would have been as good if Jordan was not on drugs, and Donnie was not in the story?