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The Journey Of A Hero In Mystic Hero's Journey

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According to Webster’s dictionary, a definition of a hero is “a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent” (“Hero”). The thing with heroes is that they are not all mythological or legendary figures; in fact, heroes can be almost anyone that holds our admiration towards them for whatever reason. Any person can be deemed a hero from the random person seen walking across the street to one of your relatives, so eloquently it is their journey that they go through that makes them become the hero. In Joseph Campbell’s book, Hero with a Thousand Faces, to be a hero you have to follow along with the steps that Joseph Campbell created called Mystic Hero’s Journey. From the start of the first stage where the Call to Adventure begins it all to the end where the final step the Freedom to Live ends the journey. It is taking notice how a person, such the case for my father, life choices and actions convert them from being seen as an ordinary person to a genuine hero. For Adolfo Huitron, my father, it is from the young age of 19 that he received his Call to Adventure. Straker describes in his article that the call to adventure is where “the hero starts off in a mundane situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a clarion call” (Straker). He is inferencing that the hero starts off with a normal dull background and it is when something out of the norm occurs or something life changing happens that the hero in question gets his call to adventure, to begin his journey. At the age of 19, Adolfo’s call to adventure was when he received the news that he was going to be a father. This news made him want to acquire a better future and life for his life. Living in Mexico during his time was tough there wasn’t much work in the area where he lived and education was poor as well. With the future of his daughter in mind, he decided that he wanted to move his pregnant wife and himself to the United States. He knew that in the United States, there were more job opportunities that would help him provide better things for his family that would be increasing soon enough. He also knew that the U.S valued the education of children more than in his own town. During the interview that he stated, “I

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