of Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, and Luke Skywalker appear to be vastly different, they are actually the same storylines substituted with different characters. Each film follows Joseph Campbell’s guidelines of a monomyth, which describes the hero’s journey in all successful plots. According to Campbell, a hero must first receive a call to adventure, refuse it initially, and then cross a threshold from his or her ordinary world into the special realm. There the protagonist faces several tests, encountering…
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