Have you ever experience the feeling when you don't want to do or go something that you have to go do? For the hero's journey, this is called The Refusal To The Call. To be better explained, the refusal to the call is when the hero is reluctant to take on the journey because of fears and insecurities that have surfaced from the call to adventure. In a more modern explanation, the hero doesn't want to go do the journey that leads to their destiny. For example, in the movie The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey, Bilbo Baggins talks to the one and only Gandalf the Grey, who is trying to persuade him to come to the kingdom of Erebor with the rest of the dwarfs but he refuses saying that "we don't want any adventures here thank you." If you have read the book, watch the movie or just guessing by the name of the film, he does later decide that he does want to go on the adventure. Like I said in my example, Bilbo was scared to go, but later found the courage to leave. In my personal connection, I remember when I was five, I went on my very first vacation without my mom. I remember when she told me, I didn't want to go at all because I was afraid of leaving my mom. After a couple of days, I was perfectly fine with going with my dad and grandparents and ended up having a amazing time. In the end, if you're called on for an adventure, don't be scared and just for it! Below, that's a picture of me on the Ireland trip in 2008 hanging with some swans.
Have you ever felt nervous before a certain event such as a test, speaking in front of a class or anything else? This is called the approach to the inmost cave in the hero's journey. A better explanation of what the approach to the inmost cave would be that hero must make the preparations needed to approach the dark place the leads to the journey's heart, or better known as the central conflict. So in this, the hero reviews all of his or her training, maps or knowledge. For example, when I have a dance competition, I review my dance and corrections given in the past. Another example of the approach to the inmost cave would be in The Maze Runner By: James Dashner. Near theend of the story, the gladers grab all of their weapons and water to fight their way out of the torturous maze and the slimly creatures that live in it. We see here that they're getting ready to enter into the ordeal of the journey. Above, I included a fan-made edit of the what the gladers went through everyday and the struggles they faced. They had many reasons to wanted to leave the glade like the grievers or being boxed in, not being able to leave. But if you do, there's a great chance that you will die. In conclusion, the approach to the inmost cave is your preparation for the the ordeal so make sure you have the skills that are needed to fight your "grievers"
When you first here the word, Shape shiftier, what do you first think of? An animal or person changing into something else? A shape turning into something else? Well, a shape shifter acts to bring uncertainty and tension into a story, by changing appearance, mood, or behaviour. In a romance, the hero and heroine can both be shape shifters or someone they never expected, such as the shadow or the mentor. In one of the book series that I read, The Maze Runner By: James Dashner, the shape shifter would be a character by the name of Teresa. During the first book, she comes up in "the box" just like everyone else, but the difference between her and the gladers, she's the only girl. Already using common knowledge, you would be able to guess that she would be the shape shifter and be with her love, Thomas, the protagonist, in which I don't agree on. Thominho is the ship to go with. Anyways, when we're introduced to her, she is very quiet and considered to be very weird because of her weird she says for no reason like "WICKED is good or everything is going to change". As we get farther into the book, her personality starts to change. She becomes more adventurous when she fights creatures in the book called grieverswith the rest of the gladers to defend their lives and slowly but surely, Thomas starts to fall in love with her. As we get on in the series, we start to find out secrets like, don't worry, I won't spoil it. To find out about her, you'll have to read the series yourself.
