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The Hero's Journey

The Hero's Journey

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English

12th Grade

Practice Problem

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CCSS
6.NS.B.3, RL.11-12.9, RL.11-12.5

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Standards-aligned

Created by

Michael Linehan

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15 Slides • 4 Questions

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The Hero’s Journey (Monomyth)

  • A common story template that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, wins a victory in a decisive crisis, and
    then comes home changed or transformed.

  • “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into
    a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are
    there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the
    hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the
    power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” (Joseph
    Campbell)

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Steps/Stages (Christopher Vogler, 2007)

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Multiple Select

What is the template for most modern tales involving heroes?

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The Monomyth

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The Great Adventure

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The Hero's Journey

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The Ordeal

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Multiple Choice

Who came up with the idea of the Hero's Journey?

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Stan Lee

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George Lucas

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Joseph Campbell

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Ordinary World

Story begins with hero in
situation of normalcy

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Call to Adventure

Hero receives information
that acts as call to head
off into unknown

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Refusal of the Call

Hero initially refuses to answer Call

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Meet the Mentor

Hero meets guide or supernatural helper, might provide him
with talisman or
artifacts that will
help him later

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Crossing the Threshold

Hero crosses into field of
adventure, leaving the known behind and venturing into the unknown

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Tests, Allies, and Enemies

Hero faces tests, encounters allies, confronts enemies, and learns the ways of the unknown (Special World)

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Approach

Hero makes final preparations needed before he faces the central Ordeal

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Ordeal

Hero engages in central life-or-death crisis, during which he faces his greatest fear,
confronts this most
difficult challenge,
and experiences “death”

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Reward

Hero has survived Ordeal
and seizes Reward
(elixir, magical object,
knowledge, etc.)

Road Back

Hero must recommit to journey and return to Ordinary World, turning-point event will push hero to action and heightening stakes

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Resurrection

Hero faces final
life-and-death
Ordeal, demonstrates
that he can maintain
and apply all that he
has brought back to
Ordinary World; final
showdown with Villain

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Return with Elixir

End of cycle; hero shares elixir with others or heals a wounded land

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Multiple Choice

What is Tony Stark's "Crossing the Threshold"?

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Getting captured by terrorists

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Living selfishly and blissfully ignorant

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Escaping from the terrorists

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Multiple Choice

What is Tony Stark's "Ordeal" (i.e. life-and-death situation)?

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Escaping from the terrorists

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Facing his business partner Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger)

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Getting approached by Nick Fury

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Fighting Steve Rogers (Captain America)

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