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.
Then, the hero notices that there is something not right in life. A lot of events lead up to when he realized what his call was. So when the whole group was in low morale, Homer had a moment of insight. He tried out for football because he knew that if he didn't want to work in the coal mine for the rest of his life, he would need to go to college. If the hero can not overcome this challenge, they are dead either mentally or physically. ' He could not go back to how it was before he had his call. In Homer's case, the abyss is when he is stuck working in the mines when his dad is hurt and can't work. It is foreshadowed when the elevator is going down into the mine, and Homer looks up to see the satellite orbiting above the Earth. The way Homer comes out of the abyss is through a revelation. The first one was when he was sitting down at the dinner table with his family and declared that he was going to build a rocket. The challenges that followed took their toll on Homer, but he prevailed each and every time. Homer is stuck in the abyss for a while, but you can see in the movie, that he is going to overcome it, and break free from the abyss. Building his first rocket that didn't explode on the launching pad seemed like an enormous challenge to him, but he and his friends prevailed. But what he did not know, was that a football scholarship was not the only way out of his tiny little town of Coalwood.
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