2. The Hero’s Journey
Call to Adventure/Extraordinary Birth
Refusal of the Call
Mentor
Supernatural Aid
Return
Ordinary World
Supernatural World
Threshold Guardian
Crossing the Threshol
Flight
Tests, Enemies, and
Allies
Boon/Elixir
Initiation
Final Battle/Abyss
3. The Return
Hero crosses Threshold back into
Ordinary World, has transformed since
leaving it
Reception: might be welcomed back and
celebrated, might be rejected
Hero uses new wisdom and changed
character in life in the Ordinary World
4. The Hero’s Journey
Call to Adventure/Extraordinary Birth
Refusal of the Call
Sharing of
Boon/Elixir
Mentor
Supernatural Aid
Return
Ordinary World
Supernatural World
Threshold Guardian
Crossing the Threshol
Flight
Tests, Enemies, and
Allies
Boon/Elixir
Initiation
Final Battle/Abyss
5. Sharing of Boon/Elixir
Hero shares new knowledge/insight,
point of view, magic, gift with Ordinary
World (again, this can be literal or
physical thing as well as a new idea)
Boon/Elixir might be learned and
appreciated by the Ordinary World, used
for improvement/change
Might be rejected and Hero
misunderstood
6. The Hero’s Journey
Call to Adventure/Extraordinary Birth
Master of Two Worlds
Refusal of the Call
Sharing of
Boon/Elixir
Mentor
Supernatural Aid
Return
Ordinary World
Supernatural World
Threshold Guardian
Crossing the Threshol
Flight
Tests, Enemies, and
Allies
Boon/Elixir
Initiation
Final Battle/Abyss
7. Hero: Master of Two Worlds
Hero knows the rules of the Ordinary and
Supernatural Worlds, can go between them
Hero might need to go on another journey after
returning
Hero has been freed from fears, can live
unafraid of death
“Living in the moment”: not anticipating the
future or regretting the past
For humans: balance between material
(physical) and spiritual (mental)
8. Mulan
Journey/Goal: Prove
herself to her family, save
her father
Didn’t fit into typical
woman’s role in her
Ordinary World
Disguised herself as a man
and went into the army
Ended up saving China
and the emperor
9. Be looking for…
Group 1: The Return: How does the
acceptance or rejection of the Hero work?
Group 2: Sharing of Boon/Elixir: what is it,
and how does the Ordinary World receive it?
Group 3: Master of Two Worlds: How is
Mulan’s family different than her: are they
able to interact with the Supernatural World in
the way she does?
