Archetypal Hero's Journey Summary

Hunter steps back and smirks as Carter climbs to his feet and brushes off his clothes. Carter resists the urge to trip hunter as he runs toward the beach and up to Hillcrest. Carter walks up the dirt hill to the chapel. The path winds through the woods and the roots of the closely grown trees are used in place of stairs. Carter arrives at the chapel. They don’t use the space as often as they should. It is simple with large screen windows, a plain wooden cross, and unadorned altar at the front. They sing inside occasionally, but the campers often don’t care for the building, they find it oppressive. Carter pauses at the top of the hill. Surveying the camp spread out below him,

    “‘I come from under the hill. And under the hill and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen’” (The Hobbit). When the dragon Smaug asks Bilbo of his identity, our hero speaks to him in riddles as to not give away who he is. Bilbo has snuck into Smaug’s lair, using a magical ring to become invisible. This part of his adventure is called the “Ordeal,” one of the twelve stages in the Hero’s Journey Archetype. The Hobbit, an animated film directed by Rankin and Bass, fits the Hero’s Journey Archetype by following these three stages: “Call to Adventure,” “Tests, Allies, [and] Enemies,” and “Ordeal.”

Nebs pounded on the bridge door furiously with her hooves. She knew it was futile effort, but she persisted.

Disney’s Hercules depicts the classic mythical tale of the infamous demi god. Evil Hades, Hercules grows up on Earth but has godly strength from which he doesn't know originates. When he discovers his immortal heritage, Zeus calls him to return to Mount Olympus to become the champion he is destined to be. Eventually, Hercules evolves to be a famous hero with the help of Pegasus and Phil the satyr. Through his journey he takes on mythical monsters, Titans, and Hades. In the end it is his sacrifice that make him a true hero.

Campbell describes in detail each stage of the archetypal Hero's Journey, reiterating at several points that the archetype has both a clear basis and a clear echo in the actual living existence of each human being. These spiritual echoes are awakened by metaphor, the various uses of which Campbell also describes in detail. The ultimate purpose of both myth and metaphor, Campbell maintains, is to awaken in each individual human being an awareness of the spiritual aspect of life. This awakening, Campbell maintains, is the first step in the necessary journey away from resistance to the various inevitable physical and spiritual truths associated with being human (i.e., death and suffering) and toward an embracing of them as part of the universal

The hero’s journey spreads from old pieces of literature to recent ones like The Odyssey to new pieces of literature like the hunger games. Two examples of steps from the Hero’s Journey in modern books and movies are “the refusal of the call” and “Crossing the initial Threshold” in the scene when Simba leaves pride rock when scar kills Mufasa in the film The Lion King, directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, and in the scene of the movie 42, directed by Brian Helgeland, Jackie Robinson decides to join the majors even though he will face discrimination and once he is in he can’t back out of it. First, one of the steps of the Hero’s journey is “Refusal to the Call” and it shown in a seen from a film called the Lion King when Simba refuses from fighting scar he just leaves. In the film The Lion King when scar kills Mufasa, Simba’s father, Simba feels very depressed because he thinks it was his fault that his father died so he runs away because of sadness.

Francis explains it's an old burial spot, that may even be old than him. While talking to Liam and Beckah the inflection of Francis' voice has a fearful quality. He tells the children to flee from this place. Through his special vision, Liam saw another spirit approaching. Liam realized the spirit was Fenris. Fenris attempts to grab Liam by the scruff, while simultaneously yelling, "Bring it to me, find it and bring it to me" Fenris also mentioned his brother in his rage-filled speech. Shortly after this outburst both spirts disappear and the day turn normal. Liam shared with the rest of the group what he just witnessed. They then decide to split up to question others in the town about Fenris' family.

In 2014, I attended the Hero's journey summer program in hope to discover myself and to become a better man. My father who has attended the program many of times introduced me to the foundation and thought I should give it a try under the Young Men’s program with 8 other teens from around the world. Nervous but also excited about discovering who I truly was and what brotherhood really meant I found myself becoming the best of friends with these guys for 7 days. During the trip I learned that in relationships it is not only about how much you have in common, but that you trust each other and can work together as one. I could not tell you those guys last name or their favorite video game but I can tell you that I knew they had my back no matter what.

When the rain stopped and the sun started to come out, I finally went to my car. I opened the driver’s side door, sat down, and closed it. I banged my hands on the dashboard multiple times and screamed. The tears came back, streaming down my face as if they were rivers themselves. When at last there were no more tears left to flow out, I turned my head towards the bridge and for the last time, I glared out at the spot where she stood before her

Hannah the MII woke up and got dressed into her favorite racing suit. She hopped into her shiny, blue, new, bright car. The whirl of the engine flew as they lined up. Mario said “let's-a-go” before the beginning of the race. Hannah had a feeling that something was going to go wrong but forgot the fear. They were in the moo moo meadow and were so excited. Just then the ghost held up the sign that said “3-2-1” and the karts flew with a blink of an eye past the starting line. Mario raced into first place as he got the extra boost, while Hannah was stuck without the boost but was making her way to 6th place.

“The Hero’s Journey Defined” is an article by Anthony Ubelhor. The article goes over the way that John Campbell classified the way any story flows. It dips into the three main phases of the Journey, and the sub-phases within them. The first main idea and phase is the Departure, where the hero is hailed on to a journey, or quest. The Departure is the hero’s first step toward change and re-evaluation of themselves, and the world they live in, and they are helped along the way by many sources.

The Hunger Games, Star Wars, and A Wrinkle in Time all relate to the Hero’s Journey in different ways, but there are also similarities in the approach of Hero’s Journey. The refusal in Hunger Games and Star Wars are alike in the fact that Katniss and Luke’s choice of refusal is for the best of their family. Meg, however, has no choice and regrets going until she realizes that she will get her dad back. Crossing the threshold is different because Katniss has time to soak up the information and Luke just has to leave right away. During the point of the Test/ Allies/ Enemies, the stories are different by the intensity of the events; but they are also alike. The Hero’s Journey throughout the Hunger Games, Star Wars, and A Wrinkle in Time all have many differences and similarities in the approach of the Hero’s Journey.

Hunger Games, Star Wars, and A Wrinkle in Time are all alike and different in their approaches to the Hero’s Journey. The three sections of the Hero’s Journey that are going to be focused on are, the “Mentor Helper” section, the “Call to Adventure” section, and the “Test/Allies/Enemies” section.

The monumental piece of non-fiction work titled “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” first published in 1949 by Joseph Campbell points out an apparent monomyth of the hero through superb use of example and literary analysis. In this book Campbell presents three main phases of the archetypal hero; The Departure, The Initiation, and The Return. Within these three main phases there exist numerous sub-phases that describe nearly all aspects of the hero’s journey and its’ impact upon the entire monomyth. I have chosen to analyze the amazing journeys of the heroes Herakles, and Odysseus.

Screams filled the air. Only then did Jessie Grant realize they were his. He had been having this dream for some time, his dad’s and mom’s death. Before they boarded a cruiser when he was seventeen, his parents were his best friends, now he had nothing.