Exactly. It's literally a fixture of stories. And sometimes it's not a call like that. I've read short stories where the moral/turning point is at the end. (Like "The Displaced Person" by Flannery O'Connor.)
To the super specific and extremely rare in particular the entire third set labelled "Return" with steps 12-17 are very much optional and you never see more than 2 of them unless someone was specifically trying to make this work.
Yeah. The monomyth seems to think that the hero goes through a dark point, emerges from it, defeats the bad guy, and returns. But sometimes the hero never returns. A lot of times, things are completely different for them, or there's not anything to return from. Or they could never emerge from that dark point. (Like Breaking Bad.)
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Date: 2021-05-07 02:24 am (UTC)There's no way to avoid that one.
Exactly. It's literally a fixture of stories. And sometimes it's not a call like that. I've read short stories where the moral/turning point is at the end. (Like "The Displaced Person" by Flannery O'Connor.)
To the super specific and extremely rare in particular the entire third set labelled "Return" with steps 12-17 are very much optional and you never see more than 2 of them unless someone was specifically trying to make this work.
Yeah. The monomyth seems to think that the hero goes through a dark point, emerges from it, defeats the bad guy, and returns. But sometimes the hero never returns. A lot of times, things are completely different for them, or there's not anything to return from. Or they could never emerge from that dark point. (Like Breaking Bad.)