The Hero's Journey Research Paper

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Have you ever heard of the Hero's Journey? It is used in books and movies like The Hobbit or There and Back Again with Bilbo Baggins by J.R.R Tolkien, The Odyssey with Odysseus by Homer, and Star Wars A New Hope with Luke Skywalker by George Lucas. Some parts of the Hero’s journey are the call, the road of trials, and the return.

In The Hobbit, Bilbo answers the call, completes the road of trials, changes, and returns. Bilbo answers the call when he answers the door, and also when he reads the letter when he goes to the Green Dragon Inn. All these are examples of the call. His road of trials consisted of killing spiders, stealing the ring, and breaking the party out of the Elvenking’s palace. These are the road of trials, because they are hard to do. Then he changed as a person and he volunteered to steal from Smog the Dragon. Then he gives the Arkenstone to the enemies of Thorin, and finally digs up the gold on his way back to his hobbit-hole in Bag-end. He is returning home, which is part of the Hero's journey.
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He answers the call to return home from war back to Ithaca. The call is part of the Hero's journey. The road of trials consisted of blinding Poseidon's son the Cyclops, beating Charybdis, and seeing his dog die. These are hard for him to do. Then on his way home, he kills the suitors and beats the required trials. He is returning home, which is part of the Hero's