There are lots of hero’s in our life’s. We identify hero’s in lots of different ways. Hero’s can mean someone who sacrifices a lot for other people or a person who always does the right thing when no one is watching. However, Joseph Campbell has identified twelve steps to clearly outline what makes a hero in literature. In Soul Surfer, the protagonist, Bethany Hamilton, can be identified as a hero because she follows the steps in the Hero’s Journey.The first step of the Hero’s Journey is the ordinary world. The ordinary world is what or where the place of peace is that the hero begins the story in. For Bethany, her ordinary world is in Hawaii with her two brothers and parents. She was born in Hawaii to two die-hard surfers. How could she not
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A mentor is a specific character that guides the character. Bethany’s mentor is Sarah, her church youth group leader. Sarah tells Bethany that she doesn’t know why bad things happen to us sometimes, but she has to believe that something good will come out of this. The sixth step of the Hero’s Journey is having a talisman. A talisman is an object that the hero relies on throughout their journey. Bethany’s talisman is her surfboard. Bethany’s surfboard why like a stuffed animal to her, she always had it with her and relied on it. The eighth step of the Hero’s Journey is crossing the threshold. Crossing the threshold is when the hero leaves the ordinary world. Bethany crosses the threshold when she goes on a mission trip with her church. Her mentor, Sarah shows Bethany that losing her arm is not so bad compared to losing her whole family like the people she met on the trip had experienced. Bethany meets a little boy in Thailand and teaches him how to surf and she feels his excitement. “They say the Lord works in mysteries ways, I say that’s an understatement. Who would have thought that teaching a kid how to surf would teach me that surfing isn’t the most important thing in the world? And that something else …show more content…
The supreme ordeal is the ultimate challenge the hero must overcome to restore peace to the ordinary world. However, it didn’t count. In Soul Surfer, Bethany must learn how to surf with only one arm. Bethany reaches this point when she catches the best wave of her surfing completion due to the timer, but she says that “it counted to her”. The last step of the Hero’s Journey is the return with elixir. The return with elixir is how the hero has changed after the ordeal and what ways has she resorted peace in the ordinary world. Bethany goes through in interview after to completion and is asked if she could change what happened the day of the attack, would she? Bethany replies “I wouldn’t change what happened to me, because I wouldn’t have this chance in front of all of you. This chance to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms” You can see that Bethany has coped with the attack and that all the tough times she went through were worth it. “I’ve learned that life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up because you never know what’s over the next wave and if you have faith anything is possible, anything at all.” Which is why Bethany is an ultimate hero in many
A mentor is a specific character that guides the character. Bethany’s mentor is Sarah, her church youth group leader. Sarah tells Bethany that she doesn’t know why bad things happen to us sometimes, but she has to believe that something good will come out of this. The sixth step of the Hero’s Journey is having a talisman. A talisman is an object that the hero relies on throughout their journey. Bethany’s talisman is her surfboard. Bethany’s surfboard why like a stuffed animal to her, she always had it with her and relied on it. The eighth step of the Hero’s Journey is crossing the threshold. Crossing the threshold is when the hero leaves the ordinary world. Bethany crosses the threshold when she goes on a mission trip with her church. Her mentor, Sarah shows Bethany that losing her arm is not so bad compared to losing her whole family like the people she met on the trip had experienced. Bethany meets a little boy in Thailand and teaches him how to surf and she feels his excitement. “They say the Lord works in mysteries ways, I say that’s an understatement. Who would have thought that teaching a kid how to surf would teach me that surfing isn’t the most important thing in the world? And that something else …show more content…
The supreme ordeal is the ultimate challenge the hero must overcome to restore peace to the ordinary world. However, it didn’t count. In Soul Surfer, Bethany must learn how to surf with only one arm. Bethany reaches this point when she catches the best wave of her surfing completion due to the timer, but she says that “it counted to her”. The last step of the Hero’s Journey is the return with elixir. The return with elixir is how the hero has changed after the ordeal and what ways has she resorted peace in the ordinary world. Bethany goes through in interview after to completion and is asked if she could change what happened the day of the attack, would she? Bethany replies “I wouldn’t change what happened to me, because I wouldn’t have this chance in front of all of you. This chance to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms” You can see that Bethany has coped with the attack and that all the tough times she went through were worth it. “I’ve learned that life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone, you need to get right back up because you never know what’s over the next wave and if you have faith anything is possible, anything at all.” Which is why Bethany is an ultimate hero in many