With destiny having taken a friendly (and usually bearded) form, the hero moves forward until meeting a "threshold guardian.".In some cases, the mentor is also the herald who starts the whole thing rolling with the call to adventure.The mentor represents destiny and serves as a comfort and a reassurance for the hero on his or her adventures.This could be the Blessed Virgin in Christian stories, the Spider-Woman in African stories, a wizard, a god like Hermes, or others.This is a wizard, dwarf or some similar figure who provides protection for the hero on the first stage of the journey.For heroes who don't refuse the call, their first encounter with the outside world and the challenges they need to face is with a mentor.Campbell relates the stories of Sleeping Beauty and Kamar al-Zaman from Arabian Nights to demonstrate what happens when the hero refuses the call.Campbell notes that the philosopher Carl Jung believes that psychoanalysis finds patterns and fixations very similar to the story of Daphne.Example? We got one! How about the story of Daphne, who flees from the loving arms of the god Apollo and gets turned into a laurel tree as a result? Check out the full story here.The divine being linked to the hero harasses him or her constantly, trapping him or her in a symbolic labyrinth.Why? Because it leads to stagnation and a refusal to advance forward in life.The story makes it very clear: refusing the call is a bad idea.Sometimes the hero doesn't answer the call or want to take up the task.The hero belongs to an ordinary community when the call arrives, and his or her energy is realigned from inside the community to outside of it.More examples follow, including King Arthur and the story of an Indian woman from North America.A herald is involved, announcing the danger or the task to be undertaken.The call involves danger, peril and dark places like a forest (or the bottom of a pond, to follow the princess and the frog).The call is a crisis: something that spurs the hero or heroine into action.The frog returning the princess's golden ball to her is an example of the call to adventure.As you may suspect, he turns into a handsome prince when she finally decides to kiss him.) She's grossed out by him, but what's a girl gonna do? (Don't worry.The frog returns the ball, and asks to be her companion in exchange.A frog asks if he can help and the princess promises him anything if he can get the ball back.A princess drops her golden ball in the water, where it sinks deep down to the bottom.The chapter opens with a retelling of the famous fairy tale "The Princess and the Frog.".
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