For homework: Remember your favorite book or movie that you wrote down at the beginning of class? You get to watch or read it for homework! Using your new Hero’s Journey, see if you can plot the points of the book or movie. Then try to see if you can label all 7 of the characters that are present in a monomyth. If you can, you have a monomyth! Write a paragraph summarizing your findings and defending why your pick fits into the monomyth. If not write a paragraph explaining why your pick doesn’t fit into the formula.

You will be turning in: The Hero’s Journey for your book or movie pick (10 points per diagram). A list of what characters fit the seven roles and why (10 points). And, a paragraph explaining why or why not your favorite pick fits into Campbell’s definition of a monomyth, ne sure to cite specific evidence (10 points).

The Hero’s Journey – The Incredibles

The Ordinary World The ordinary world for Mr. Incredible was the world where his family lived, a world in which a lot of superheroes exist and occasionally save the world from burglars. His son Dash and his daughter Violet, who are also superheroes, go to school. His wife is an ordinary housewife. He is an ordinary salary man.

Call to Adventure Mirage sends Mr. Incredible an electronic device containing a summons to an island to fight a runaway robot.

Refusal of the Call He worries about his family and is reluctant of going back to his superhero days and putting his family at risk.

Meeting the Mentor He meets Mirage, who informs him about the robot and its abilities.

Crossing the Threshold He rides a very modern jet and goes to the island to find the robot.

Tests, Allies. And Enemies His first test comes when he first fights the robot, which can learn while battling. He almost gets drowned and melted in lava but finally finds a way to kill it. His one ally is Edna Mode, the woman who designs superhero clothes. She provides him and his family members each a suit that suits individual abilities. His family members, Elastigirl, Dash, and Violet are also allies. His real enemy is the rich weapons producer Syndrome, who used to be a fan of Mr. Incredible in his youth.

Approach to the Innermost Cave He uses a statue and breaks through a fake lava-clad door to approach the central system. He looks up heroes’ and heroines’ names to see if they had been killed or not. He finds out that Syndrome is trying to conquer the world by launching a rocket. He gets caught.

Ordeal His family (his wife, son, and daughter) come to rescue him and are eventually caught.

Reward Violet uses her ability of shielding to escape from the electric bounds, and goes to save the world. Mirage tells them the password, and they fly to the city to fight the robot.

The Road Back They fly back to the city.

Resurrection While the Incredibles are going home after destroying the robot, they find out that Syndrome has got Jackjack, the little baby. The other four are caught by Syndrome and then the baby is taken away by him. But surprisingly the baby had a great ability, and Syndrome is killed. Basically the baby resurrects the family.

Return with the Elixir Violet becomes more competent with boys, and Dash enjoys the races. The family becomes happier and more intimate.