If anyone is familiar with "The Odyssey" and the "12 Stages of a Hero", can you please help me???

I have to somehow relate each stage to an event in the Odyssey:





1. ORDINARY WORLD: “In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell describes the beginning of the typical hero’s journey. ‘A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder…’”


2. CALL TO ADVENTURE: “The Call to Adventure may come in the form of a message or a messenger. It may be a new event like a declaration of war, or the arrival of a telegram reporting that the outlaws have just been released from prison and will be in town on the noon train to gun down the sheriff.”


3. REFUSAL OF THE CALL: “Some of us turn down the quest, some hesitate, some are tugged at by families who fear for our lives and don’t want us to go. You hear people mutter that the journey is foolhardy, doomed from the start. You feel fear constricting your breathing and making your heart race.”


4. MEETING WITH THE MENTOR: “By this time many stories will have introduced a Merlin-like character who is the hero’s Mentor. The relationship between hero and Mentor is one of the most common themes in mythology, and one of the richest in its symbolic value. It stands for the bond between parent and child, teacher and student, doctor and patient, god and man.


5. CROSSING OF THE FIRST THRESHOLD: “The task for heroes at this point is often to figure out some way around or through these guardians. Often their threat is just an illusion, and the solution is simply to ignore them or to push through them with faith. Other Threshold Guardians must be absorbed or their hostile energy must be reflected back onto them.”


6. THE ROAD OF TRIALS: “Now the hero fully enters the mysterious, exciting Special World which Joseph Campbell called ‘a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials.’ It’s a new and sometimes frightening experience for the hero. No matter how many schools he has been through, he’s a freshman all over again in this new world.”


7. APPROACH TO THE INMOST CAVE: “The hero comes at last to the edge of a dangerous place, sometimes deep underground, where the object of the quest is hidden. Often it’s the headquarters of the hero’s greatest enemy, the most dangerous spot in the Special World, the Inmost Cave.”


8. ORDEAL: “Here, in this moment, is the chance to win all or die. No matter what you came for, it’s Death that now stares back at you. Whatever the outcome of this battle, you are about to taste death and it will change you. The simple secret of the Ordeal is this: Heroes must die so that they can be reborn.”


9. REWARD (SEIZING THE SWORD): “Heroes don’t really become heroes until the crisis; until then they are just trainees. They don’t really deserve to be loved until they have shown their willingness to sacrifice. At this point a true hero has earned a love scene, or a ‘sacred marriage’ of some kind.”


10. THE ROAD BACK: “The Road Back is a turning point, another threshold crossing which marks the passage from Act Two to Act Three. Like crossing the First Threshold, it may cause a change in the aim of the story. A story about achieving some goal becomes a story of escape.”


11. RESURRECTION: “In ancient times, hunters and warriors had to be purified before they returned to their communities, because they had blood on their hands. The hero who has been to the realm of the dead must be reborn and cleansed in one last Ordeal of death and Resurrection before returning to the ordinary world of the living.”


12. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR: “Having survived all the ordeals, having lived through death, heroes return to their starting place, go home, or continue the journey. But they always proceed with a sense that they are commencing a new life, one that will be forever different because of the road just traveled.”

If anyone is familiar with "The Odyssey" and the "12 Stages of a Hero", can you please help me???
There are two study guides available online which should help you a great deal in this assignment. The story outlines should be particularly useful for you.





- MonkeyNotes: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monk...


- SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/





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Reply:Would you settle for some clues? Don't forget, there's not only Odysseus's Hero's Journey, but also one for Telemachus (books 1-4, and some at the end). So, if the assignment doesn't specify, you can use either.





Also, I'm going by memory here, so use your judgment and check out anything I write.





1. Even though Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of beings that supposedly exist, or used to exist, on earth, that doesn't mean that Homer necessarily believed that the gods and creatures like the Sirens did, in fact, exist. The experts believe that Homer may very well have seen them as fantastic (supernatural) creatures.





2. Messenger of the gods. Wings, funny-looking hat... :-) The message itself may not have been given directly to Odysseus (I just don't remember), but it was about him and is important.





3. No clue. I don't recall a refusal.





4. Mentor: Who helps Odysseus, and helped to save his life more than once? It's the same one who also helps Telemachus in the first 4 books.





5. Too many things are coming to mind, so I'll pass on this, too.





6. Pretty much his entire journey is a road of trials (his "road" being the sea, of course, and even when he finally arrives at Ithaca).





7. This should be easy. What's the strangest, most unexpected place, Odysseus visits? Hint: Every hero in every ancient epic has visited this Place.





8. It must have happened in the Place referred to in #7.





9. Reward: He receives several, of two kinds that I recall (material rewards and an offer [hint: Nausicaa]), on the last stop before Ithaca.





10. Fairly obvious. About a change in aim: Remember that Odysseus has no idea of what's been going on in Ithaca, what Penelope and Telemachus have been dealing with for about 9 years.





11. %26amp; 12. I leave to you. Good luck!