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Check Your Understanding
In your discussion group, choose a familiar story that contains a hero’s journey and work to connect the story’s plot to each step in the Hero’s Journey archetype. If the story does not contain one of the steps, indicate it with an X in the space provided.
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Stage 1: Departure
1. The Call to Adventure:
2. Refusal of the Call:
3. The Beginning of the Adventure:
Stage 2: Initiation
4. The Road of Trials: (a)
(b) (c)
5. The Experience with Unconditional Love:
6. The Ultimate Boon:
Stage 3: Return
7. Refusal of the Return:
8. The Magic Flight:
9. Rescue from Without:
10. The Crossing or Return Threshold: (Theme Statement)
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