Hero's Journey

This step is when the future hero is given notice that their life is going to change.

• Call of Adventure

• Refusal of the Call

• Meeting the Mentor

• Crossing the Threshold

This step is where a mentor helps motivate the hero to begin their journey.

• Call of Adventure

• Refusal of the Call

• Meeting the Mentor

• Crossing the Threshold

This is known as the Beginning of the Adventure, where the hero leaves the known and enters the unknown.

• Call of Adventure

• Refusal of the Call

• Meeting the Mentor

• Crossing the Threshold

This is when the hero refuses the call to adventure.

• Call of Adventure

• Refusal of the Call

• Meeting the Mentor

• Crossing the Threshold

Tests, Allies, and Enemies is when...

• the hero experiences tests and challenges, and usually fails one or more challenges.

• the hero receives support from others.

• the hero first meets the main enemy.

• the hero first meets his allies.

The Approach is when....

• the hero is transformed by his tests and challenges.

• the hero experiences support during Tests, Allies, and Enemies

• the hero approaches his goal.

• the villain approaches victory.

The hero reaches their original goal, confronts death, or faces their greatest fear. All the hard work and training is put to the test.

• The Ordeal

• Crossing the Threshold

• The Ordinary World

• The Reward

The hero gets the Ultimate Boon, which can be a physical object, or an intangible item.

• The Ordeal

• Resurrection

• Reward

• Return

The hero does not want to go back, they prefer to stay in the different place. They do not take action right away.

• Refusal of the Call

• The Road Back

• Rescue from Without

• The Crossing or Return Threshold

Which of the following best describes the hero's journey?

• A hero begins in an unknown world and struggles alone against a great evil to reach his ordinary world again.

• It begins with an ordinary life, but is compelled to take a hero journey into the unknown. With help, the hero overcomes challenges and returns a changed person.

• A hero eagerly heads out to find a magical world and fight everything he sees so he can rule the world as a more powerful, wiser person.

• After becoming a powerful and important a hero misses his old life, so he returns to the unknown to be destroyed so he can come back as his old, ordinary self and return to his old ordinary life.