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Friday, May 14, 2010

Crossing the Threshold

A phone representing someone calling to represent the call to adventure in John Campbell's work on myths.


The book I am currently reading is The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. It is about the adventure of a hobbit in land called Middle Earth.

The call to adventure is done very early in the book. The call to adventure is essentially when the dwarves ask Bilbo if he wanted to go on an adventure. There are many other call to adventures but they are during the adventure. This is the first call to adventure and it kick offed the book.

When the character crosses the threshold into the new world, he feels scared and homesick.
"...Bilbo was feeling homesick..." J.R.R Tolkien

This is important to the story because it starts the charcter at a low point so that the character can grow.
We can predict that the characater will become a full blown hero by the end because of the group he is with which is a tough party of dwarves.