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Order of Steps
Relationships of Steps
During this Step
Internal, Abstract, & Figurative
As seen in Star Wars
100
This step is the jumping off point for the adventure.
What is the Threshold.
100
The hero will often resist the call to adventure, but during this stage something will be given to him that will help the hero to accept the call.
What is Assistance or Supernatural Aid
100
During this step, the hero brings new skills and abilities back home.
What is the Return?
100
This is one of the main reasons that a hero will reject a call to adventure.
What is fear of leaving his comfort zone. (Will also take "What is insecurity.")
100
In Star Wars, Luke's ordinary world is...
What is Tatooine
200
This step occurs after the hero enters the unknown world and typically comprises the majority of the story.
What are the Trials or Challenges/Temptations.
200
During this stage, the hero is creating a plan and preparing to face his most difficult challenge.
What are Challenges and Temptations.
200
During this step of the journey, the hero will make enemies and alliances.
What is the Challenges/Temptations step.
200
During this stage, the hero will be "reborn" in some fundamental way, either literally or figuratively, as a result of facing/experiencing death.
What is the Abyss/Crisis.
200
After leaving his known world, an event that begins Luke's Transformation.
What step describes Luke learning to use the force with help from Obi-wan Kenobi?
300
This is the only "step" that takes place continuously throughout the adventure.
What is Transformation.
300
During the Trials stage, the hero will face many challenges and tests. This is because he is in a transitional period and is adjusting to being in the _________ world after leaving the _________world.
What is being in the unknown/special world after leaving the known/ordinary world.
300
This step ends with a revelation of greater truth about the world or self.
What is the Abyss
300
The hero's mentor will give the hero something that will help him to accept the call to adventure. Sometimes it will be something concrete like a map or lightsaber and other times it will be something ABSTRACT such as...
What is confidence, wisdom, courage, etc.
300
The step when Luke is almost killed in the trash compactor, and right after that when Obi-Wan Kenobi dies.
What are trials and challenges? Will also take the Abyss.
400
These are the steps of the hero's journey that traditionally take place after the abyss, after the death and rebirth and the hero finally has a revelation that changes him.
What are Transformation, Atonement, and Return.
400
Who goes along with the hero on his journey?
Who are helpers and mentors?
400
In relation to PLOT STRUCTURE, this step is an important story element where the loose plot lines of the story are tied up; it's how the story ends, how the conflict is resolved.
What is the Resolution.
400
During the Abyss/Death & Rebirth, the hero will often face or experience death, which can either be literal or figurative. In the case of Luke Skywalker, an example of a figurative death he experienced could be...
What is "give up living for self and living instead for others."
400
What 2 supernatural aids does Luke receive that he uses on his journey?
What is Lightsaber and the Force.
500
These are the 4 steps of the hero's journey that traditionally take place in the hero's known or ordinary world.
What are -Call to Adventure, -Supernatural Aid, -Reaching the Threshold or Departure/Guardians, -Return
500
The Crisis in the Abyss helps prepare the hero for what next steps?
Overcoming the Crisis in the special world helps the hero to face and conquer the challenge posed in the ordinary world.
500
In relation to plot structure, this step of the hero's journey serves as the story's inciting incident.
What is the Call to Adventure.
500
With a direct call to adventure, the hero will be pointedly asked to go on the adventure, such as a Obi-wan saying "Let's go join the rebellion and learn the ways of the Force." What was the indirect call, where the hero was faced with a situation or circumstance that forced him to accept the call?
What is "Luke's Aunt and Uncle are killed and there is nothing keeping him in Tatooine."
500
The final transforming event in Luke's journey?
What is Luke listening to Obi-wan's voice, to listen to "The Force" in battle, to use the force. He let go of relying on himself and the computer, and he relied on the force to destroy the death star.