Archetypal Journey

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The Three Stages
“It is good to have and end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end,”(Ursula K. LeGuin). One of my biggest journeys in life is when I started to play badminton. My personal experiences, and my experiences with others and the world reflect three of the first five stages of the archetypal journey. My journey starts with the ordinary world, the call to adventure, and the meeting of the mentor. Experiences in my ordinary world have shaped my beliefs and understandings of the ordinary world. The ordinary world is the beginning of the hero’s journey. This is the place of comfort for the hero, and where the hero intends to come if he/she must leave.
Before my call to adventure to play badminton, my ordinary world consisted of me living
This was where I was most safe. When we watched “
Up” in class, I came to believe that the ordinary world was the most comforting place. Ellie and Carl were just two little kids who ended up getting married, and living a happily married life.
For them everything was perfect just the way it was; until Ellie had passed away. Even though she passed away Carl’s home was were he felt closest to his wife. In “
Freedom
Writers”
, I was shocked at how much our ordinary worlds were different. Their worlds were full with crime and violence, and many of their families had kicked them out of their homes, beat them up, or are in prison. My ordinary world and experiences with text,

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have taught me to be happy with what I have, because not everyone else has it easy like I do. My personal experiences, and my experiences with others and the world reflect the call to adventure. This stage in the archetypal journey is where the hero is presented with a problem, challenge, or adventure to undertake. This make’s the hero’s goals a lot more clear. In my journey, my call to adventure was when my parents bought me a racket and shuttlecock from the Dollar Store. This was when I started developing
However the membership was a lot cheaper if your whole family played.
When we watched the movie,
“Up”
in class, I realized that call to adventure can happen sooner than I expected. In
“Up”
, Carl and Ellie’s call to adventure happened when they were just little kids, who looked around 6 years olds. Their call to adventure was when
Ellie asked Carl to join the club, and later on she showed him the scrapbook to Paradise
Falls. In my tall tale, that I did at the beginning of the year, the call to adventure occurred in the form of an event that the protagonist had to overcome. In my tall tale,
Will’s call to adventure was realising that his family had been kidnapped and he had to save them. My call to adventure and experiences with the text have taught me that the journey can occur anytime in your life, and in many different forms, but in order to overtake it, you must accept it.

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My experiences with others and the world reflect the meeting of the mentor. The mentor gives the hero supplies, knowledge, and confidence required to overcome their fear and face the adventure. I have seen many mentors throughout my life; some experiences in text , and some in my personal experiences. The mentor in