How the Hero's Journey can help your child
Myths throughout time and across cultures curiously share common characters, themes, and narratives. We call these "archetypes" which exist because they are shared across humanity. There is debate as to whether this is due to there being an original story that was told to the first humans who then perpetuated these themes through history or if there is just something remarkably and transcendentally human about them. Maybe it's both. Either way, one of the most salient and common archetypal myths is the "hero's journey". It's a story that has been retold countless times in recent let alone ancient history. There is an ordinary, soon-to-be hero that receives a call to action. The hero must leave the "normal world" for an extraordinary one. S/he (although mythologically speaking it's usually a he) encounters a mentor of some kind who tests him. He experiences some kind of temptation or weakness, encounters the perceivably insurmountable be...