Distilled Joseph Campbell Applied to The Fourth Awakening

If you’ve read The Fourth Awakening, here is how it matches up to Joseph Campbell plot and pacing.

1. The Ordinary World  -- Penelope at the beginning
2. The Call to Adventure – Mark Hatchet Calls
3. The Reluctant Hero – Reluctantly agrees to meet Walker
4. The Wise Old Man – Meets Walker
5. Into the Special World – The First Threshold – Leaves with Walker
6. Tests, Allies & Enemies – The trip to the Compound
7. The Innermost Cave – Second Threshold – The Compound
8. The Supreme Ordeal – Loses herself
9. Seizing the Sword – Walker offers the way back
10. The Road Back – Comes back from the brink
11. Resurrection – the Third Threshold – Must convince Washington Post People
12. Returns with the Elixir – Becomes a reporter again 

Remember. It is not necessary to follow to follow this format exactly but it is also not wise to drift too far off the path.  

NEARLY EVERY SUCCESSFUL BOOK OR MOVIE IN THE LAST 40 YEARS -- FROM STAR WARS TO AVATAR TO HARRY POTTER HAS MORE OR LESS FOLLOWED THIS UNIVERSAL PATH!