The Hero's Journey: The Idea Of A Hero

The hero’s journey archetype has appeared in many forms of literature and will most likely continue to do so for as long as long as literature exists. The story of Equality 7-2521 and his journey to find the true value of individuality is one example of this very commonly used archetype.

Within the Hero 's journey outline we see 12 stages the hero encounters. these 12 stages help to build the hero and make a movies such as star wars which follows this exact outline. The ordinary world, which is the first phase of the outline sets a special world where the hero is in a comfortable place and sets a connection to the audience. The call to adventure, here a disruption occurs where the hero is no longer in the comfort of the ordinary world and is now becoming involved with his/her hero duties. Meeting the mentor, here the hero gains confidence that he/she may have lacked and gains it through the mentor which can provide experience, knowledge, or some advice to help the hero along the journey.

Every story has some common elements. In the Hero’s Journey; the elements are organized in a way that allows for infinite possibilities to occur. The ordinary world lets the reader get to know the hero by understanding his feelings, problems, and life. One common elements are stories have is they all have a problem. Every hero has a quest. Every hero is afraid of something. someone or something always helps the hero during his journey. All stories have a central dramatic question. All heroes have a test of some of their characteristics. The journey is long and always riddled with self-reflection. Finally, the reward was worth the trip. On the return trip, the hero’s story can always change. In the resurrection, it can be physical or emotional,

Do you know what the Hero’s Journey is? The Hero’s Journey Archetype is a pattern found in stories that shows what a hero does. It was found by Joseph Campbell. It appears in Greek myths from a long time ago to the movie Finding Nemo 2003, and to the book The Hunger Games by Collins. The Hero’s Journey appears in many stories and has three stages with several steps.

What is a hero? What must one do to qualify for the honor of having such a title? A man named Joseph Campbell wrote a book called The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with the idea that there is a road on which most heroes in most stories travel on their way to becoming a hero. This is called The Hero’s Journey. From leaving the comfort of The Shire to helping defeat a dragon and returning home with the treasure Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is one of these heroes.

I had asked God to show me His love for me like if He needed to prove it. In my questioning and in my doubts, I made it seem as if I didn't trust Him. He took my hand and led me to a crowded street. I could barely see through all the crowd. In the distance I could see that it was He Himself who the crowd was after. He had a crown of thorns on His head, and a cross upon His fragile back. The blood dripped from His body, but none of the ones screaming at Him or spitting on Him seemed to care. They wanted Him dead. I cried out loud, and didn't want to see anymore, but God told me to look at the proof that I wanted to see. I looked at the terrible scene once again, and this time they were nailing Him to the cross. They lifted up the cross,

One day during summer break on a very hot and steamy day a girl was running through a field when there lay an arrow in the grass telling her to go towards the forbidden place. She refuses to go and turns in the other direction and goes home, though fear and curiosity were bubbling inside of her. Well for the past two weeks she has been thinking of going and she went to start the journey.

I woke up in a dark room with a massive headache that beat like a drum. I slowly got up and tried to remember what happened. I remember a huge storm that ravaged the west coast, then a space-ship came down and started to abduct people. “Oh no, I have been abducted!” I screamed to myself. As I said that the door opened, and light flooded into the dark room. My jaw dropped as I saw a huge poster behind me and it looked almost like animal cell. The man who opened the door said to me, “Come with me, now”.

One day Richard was sauntering down the road when he got this call from this person that was threatening his family 's safety on to the peace of the community in which he lives. It could be as treacherous as a gunshot. It ultimately distrusts the comfort of Richard safety and presents a challenge that must be undertaken.

Departure is the portion of the book before the hero goes on their journey. This includes events such as, the call to adventure, answering the call and crossing the threshold. David and Ryder both receive a call to adventure because, without one they would not be able to go on their journey and prove they are a hero. "Just to be on the safe side, then, it might be best if the four of you and Petra were to make your arrangements to run for it at a moment 's notice, if it becomes necessary" (Wyndham 121), when the group decides it 's best if they run away into the Fringes before anyone finds out about their deviation is the call to adventure because, it sets his path for his journey.

The concept of the hero’s journey is significantly cliché. It seems that each hero story starts and ends exactly the same way in today’s pop culture. In Linda Seger’s “Creating the Myth,” she gives insight on what makes a hero, how this specific type of hero creates a myth, and the significance the hero has on the story. In Robert Ray’s “The Thematic Paradigm,” he defines two types of heroes in American pop culture: the official hero and the outlaw hero. These two types of heroes are different in their personalities and beliefs, with the official hero being family oriented and the outlaw hero being more individualistic. In George Packer’s “Celebrating Inequality,” he argues that celebrities aren’t heroes, but Americans idolize them as if they

BOOM! POW! A fist thrown at the man crashing down upon a cart, people screaming! Then the man suddenly disappears and reappears grabbing the taller man by the foot and knocking him down only to disappear again! The taller man rips out an airplane seat and throws it at the man with so much force the plane shook. Then the man sees a crying baby next to the taller man, once again disappearing only to reappear with the 1 year old baby in his arms!

In the passage “Heroism: Why Heroes are Important” by Scott LaBarge, he clearly uses the rhetorical strategy of exemplification and the persuasive appeal of Pathos to explain to the reader that children no longer have ‘real’ heroes. LaBarge discusses modern day heroes and the reasons that they differ from the heroes of older generations. He contributes this fact to to the environment and role models that children are exposed to now. Though LaBarge harms his argument by discussing the cynicism of heroes, his article, “Heroism: Why Heroes are Important,” provides a convincing argument that the idea of heroes as we know it is under attack by the modern generation and their influences.

The Situational Archetype that follows through the entire film is called The Hero’s Journey, a concept introduced by Joseph Campbell. Although this is a Coming of Age story for the protagonist Hiro Hamada he follows through the steps of a heroic journey. The three steps are “Departure, Initiation, and Return.” The Departure was the death of his brother, because of his grief and loss he was determined to leave and find out information about who killed his brother and how to avenge him. The Supernatural aid that usually accompanies the Hero is Baymax. Initiation is when Hiro and his friends go through a “metamorphosis” in which Hiro and everybody else gets new technology and suits to help them fight. The last step of the Hero’s Journey is the

Would the statement, all heroes and heroines are originated from the same basis be true? Most likely, ones favorite hero novel would follow the hero’s journey which is the cycle of the hero’s adventure involving different archetypes. A hero novel does not necessarily have to involve supernatural powers and the hero does not necessarily have to save the world; a hero can go through the hero’s journey to save one person or to reveal a hidden truth. If a story follows the hero’s journey, it includes the three categories of the archetypes—character, place, event. Midwinterblood written by Marcus Sedgwick is one example of a novel that fits into the hero’s journey archetype.