Hero’s journey / call for adventure

Question

In this creative writing i’m supposed to write a hero’s journey about a hero i think 2021 needs.

the ordinary world: She is a kind hearted ordinary girl who goes to high school and works everyday after school. Tired of repeating the same cycle day after day. She lives with her grandparents in the suburbs because her parents abandoned her when she was a child.

call for adventure: While walking to work after school, the girl comes across a homeless man. (what could the man say or do to begin the story)

supernatural / mentor: wise homeless man

allies: group of friend and political figures 

 

enemies: corrupt government officials and politicians

the roads of trail: overcoming the pandemic, wats to overcome police brutality, climate change, human trafficking, and racism. 

reward and the journey home: She has overcome worldly and personal issues. She would return home, but they also find a new place or person that represent home. She has made the world a little more tolerant. 

— my only question is for the call adventure, what could the man do or say to make the story start. like could u give me some ideas or any feed back on what i just wrote.

Answer 1

I like tend to like stories where the character was almost built to be a hero but never has a situation to push them to be extraordinary. So your main character is pushed to her edge, in a cycle she just can't stand to repeat again. But what is she willing to fight for? So often we get caught in a cycle because we are not willing to fight for ourselves. You have the spark, you have this gem, the homeless man says something that makes her act. She is willing to fight for him, for someone else, for a bigger issue.

But was there a clue earlier in her life of what issue she just couldn't let slide? Was there a fight at school she had to get involved in? Was there a comment a bully made that she couldn't let go of? Was there a talk she had to have with a friend to set them straight? What attitude, wrong opinion, action, can she just not sit by and let happen right in front of her? What do her teachers do to get her to act or motivated to get those good grades? Can the homeless man exploit this too?

It can even start small. She never let her friends go hungry when they forgot lunch, so she buys this homeless man food and gets wrapped up in his story, what made him homeless? What will he claim is the societal problem that brought him and others like him to this place of powerlessness? Good luck to you, hope you find an idea that sparks your imagination.

Answer 2

This sounds like a fantastic story. People will go for it.

To answer your question now. You asked what could the man do or say to make the story start. like could u give me some ideas or any feed back on what i just wrote.

Here's one idea; see if you like it.

A bisel background first. The man is wise but homeless. He has experienced enough to know what life is and he knows he knows. Here are the first few lines of the story as he would say them.

Hey, you. You look worried and I--I!--know why. No, I'll tell you later.

Now stop, yes, stop, and listen. Homeless--yeah it's me; but I know what I know.

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And what's more I know, right away, what you need. You need to know what you know.

Know what you know and you won't stop for nothing.

That's the story of the story I give. Add to the homeless man's talking for the first chapter.

The story of the girl will go on from there. Maybe she can go back to the homeless man

in the final chapter. It's up to you.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Take care,

Howard Sage