The Stages of the Hero's Journey

Most stories take the hero out of the ordinary, mundane world into a special World, new and alien. 

• the call to adventue
• the ordinary world
• test,allies and enemies

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The hero is presented with a problem, challenge, or adventure to undertake.

• The call to Adventure
• Hercules
• Mentor

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This one is about fear. The hero balks at the threshold of adventure.

• The Road back
• que?
• Refusal of the call

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The person who leads, trains, or shows the hero to/for their journey

• Meeting the mentor
• santa
• Resurection

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The hero finally commits to the adventure and fully enters the Special World of the story for the first time.

• crossing the first theshold
• approach to the inmost cave 
• ordeal

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The hero naturally encounters new challenges and -----, makes ----- and -----, and begins to learn the rules of the Special World.

• tests, allies, enemies
• people, food, little people

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The hero comes at last to the edge of a dangerous place, sometimes deep underground, where the object of the quest is hidden.

• the supreme ordeal
• the road back
• Approach to the inmost cave 

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Here the fortunes of the hero hit bottom in a direct conformation with his greatest fear.

• approach to the in most cave
• resurection
• The Supreme Ordeal

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The hero now takes possession of the treasure she has comes seeking. 

• Reward
• Return with the elixir 
• Resurrpeirne

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This stage marks the decision to return to the Ordinary World.

• Return with the elixir
• The road back
• The ordinary world

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