There are many things that follow a cycle of some sort. You are currently in the process of going through the cycle of life in which everybody goes through. Joseph Campbell, a comparative mythologists, found archetypes, or a recurring pattern, in hero stories and came to the conclusion that they are all just a monomyth. In “ The Hero’s Adventure” he goes on to talk about a hero’s journey. The purpose of a hero’s journey is to reach a psychological transformation. To reach a psychological transformation a hero must go through the cycle consisting of a departure, initiation and return. Keep in mind that the steps making up the cycle all do not appear in every hero story and do not come in the same order. An example of this can be seen through
