The Hero Cycle

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to fly to Pakistan from California to see Rahim. He talks about his journey about a week after Rahim calls him, and explains how he “sat on a window seat aboard a Pakistani International Airlines flight” (Hosseini, page #). When I was first getting into theatre, my mom signed me up for a summer camp, and that was my personal call to adventure. That lead into me crossing the threshold to my very first show, shaping my passion for the arts.
The Call to Adventure, by definition, is described as something or someone offering or suggesting an adventure for the main character. Each story has a different way of showing this section of the Hero Cycle, but they all have the same basic structure and occur near the beginning of the story. In the Telemachea, Athena, in the form of Mentes, visits Telemachus and is treated with hospitality from the start. She shares her stories and personal connection to Odysseus, Telemachus’ father. She then suggests that he is still alive, which ...

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