1. Rites of Passage
The journey of a hero

2. Rite of Passage Events: Initiations:
A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person’s progress from one status in life to another.
Events:
Puberty
Coming of Age
Marriage
Death
Initiations:
Baptism
Confirmation
Bar or Bat Mitzvah
Graduation
Show what values and beliefs are important to a society.

3. Rites of Passage have 3 Phases
Separation
Transformation
Reincorporation

4. Separation
People withdraw from their current status and prepare to move to another.
(In stories, a character leaves his home and everyday routine).
There is often a detachment or “cutting away” from the former self, which is signified in symbolic actions or rituals.
Cutting the hair of a person who just joined the army. He/She is cutting away the former self: the civilian.

5. Transformation
The person has left one place or status but has not yet entered or joined the next. (He/she is in an in-between stage in his/her life.)
Where the growth, challenge or obstacle, and change takes place.
A person must overcome the challenge(s) to become a hero.
If they do not overcome the challenge(s), they become either do not survive or become villains.

6. Reincorporation
Having completed the rite and assumed his/her new identity, a person re-enters society with his/her new status.
Characterized by elaborate rituals and ceremonies.
Debutant balls, high school graduation, quinceañera, sweet sixteen, bar mitzvah, etc.