Category: Matrix

  The hero is tested and sorts out allegiances in the Special World.    

  Near the middle of the story, the hero enters a central space in the Special World and confronts death or faces his or her greatest fear.  Out of the moment of death comes a new life.   

  The hero takes possession of the treasure won by facing death.  There may be celebration, but there is also danger of losing the treasure again.  

THE ROAD BACK.  About three-fourths of the way through the story, the hero is driven to complete the adventure, leaving the Special World to be sure the treasure is brought home.  Often a chase scene signals the urgency and...

At the climax, the hero is severely tested once more on the threshold of home.  He or she is purified by a last sacrifice, another moment of death and rebirth.   z After doing what you thought was impossible, you have a new...