The Hero’s Journey Defined is an article written by Joseph Campbell defining, as it implies, the hero's journey. In the article Joseph explains that there are three phases in the cycle of the hero's journey, Departure, Initiation, and Return each of which have steps embedded inside of them explicitly explaining the role of the main idea. For instance, while in Departure the hero is living an ordinary life which can include not having a fatherly figure and or not having a loving mother. When the time is right the hero receives “A call to adventure” and can either choose to get on the path for accepting the call or reluctantly follows the call and turns it into a negative however the hero is assisted by a mentor figure. In Initiation the hero
