Hero's Journey

A detailed Summary of Hero's Journey

In most modern novels, movies, and stories, the main character goes through a journey. In fact, even we go through this journey so often, that we may not even recognize it. What is this journey, you may be wondering. It is known as 'The Hero's Journey.' As in any journey, there are stages in which the person taking the journey must go through. There are eight stages in the Hero's Journey. There is the call, in which something for the hero that isn't working. There is the threshold, where the hero can not return to his or her old life. There are multiple challenges, which become harder as the hero continues in the journey. There is the abyss, which comes from a challenge so great, that if the hero does not overcome it, he or she will die, either physically or mentally. Then there is the Revelation, and then the Transformation. From the information, experience and wisdom the hero has gained from his or her transformation, they then reach the next stage, Atonement or balance. And the last stage, is the return home and the gift. A perfect example of the Hero's Journey, is the movie October Sky. In the movie, the main character, Homer Hickam, is thrown through the journey, aided by mentors and friends along the way.

Physically, he did return home, when he came back from the science fair. But, in the hero's journey, that wasn't his return home. He first had to launch his last rocket. This was his atonement/balance stage. His life was balanced and had everything pretty much put into place.

The way Homer comes out of the abyss is through a revelation. After talking with Ms. Riley, and after seeing the satellite in orbit, Homer realizes that he was not born to work in the mine like his father before him. After that, he studied every night and worked in his spare time to prove that they had not caused the forest fire.

His revelation lead him into his transformation, in which, it shows he was essentially transformed from a person who didn't even know a thing about rockets, to a person who knew everything about them. He re-enrolled in school, and, with trigonometry, proved to the principal that their rocket didn't start the forest fire. After being transformed, he went to the science fair and won.

efore the first stage, everything is pretty much fine and dandy. Then, the hero notices that there is something not right in life. That he or she must avenge a great wrong in either their life, or in the world. Homer's call was not one exact point. A lot of events lead up to when he realized what his call was. He tried out for football because he knew that if he didn't want to

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