Hotel Rwanda Hero's Journey

In the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul rusesabagina is a hotel manager of the Mille Collines in Rwanda. On April 1994, the country of Rwanda fell victim to genocide and over 800,000 Rwandans were killed for over one hundred days. During the genocide, Paul took his family to the Mille Colline alongside hotel guests, other refugees and employees for their protection from the events occuring outside the hotel gates. It was Pauls job to keep everyone safe and calm during difficult times and to keep the hotel running as if it was just any other normal day. In just a span of just one day, two incidents occured from two members of my family. One a small but serious incident, the other a life or death situation. Just like Paul, I was there to show support …show more content…
Rushing to the hospital after a bad cut on the hand and almost witnessing the death of my grandfather. Along the way during the incidents, there were three stages of the hero’s journey that happened on that one single day. The call to adventure occured once my mom rushed to the hospital when she cut herself with the broken glass she never saw until it happened. I hit the ordeal rock bottom once I kept saying to myself that he wasnt going to make it and that it was going to be the last time we ever saw him alive. It all changed once the return of the elixer occured at the end of the day after knowing that my grandfather was still alive and thanking us. In Hotel Rwanda, Paul rusesabagina hits the call to adventure after looking out from behind the gate to his house witnessing his neighbors in trouble. Tatiana begging Paul to help their neighbors. For me having to see my mom accidentally cutting herself really woke us up that day. For Paul and I, we didn’t know what was going to happen to us after recieving the call to adventure. For us, the call to adventure brought us a serious problem that was going to expand later in the day either in the film or in real