What are the steps of the hero's journey in The Giver?

Answer 1

1. call to adventure
2. the beginning of the adventure
3. refusal of the call
4. experience of unconditional love
5. the ultimate boom
6. refusal of the return
7. the crossing/ return of the threshold

Answer 2

1.The Call- The call would be when The 17 year-old Clarisse meets Guy Montag and she starts to ask questions about anything and everything! this can signify ideals of rebellion in the form of books for Guy! The pivotal moment in which Guys perspective of books change because of Clarisses death in which she was killed for knowing 'to much'

2.The threshold-The Threshold would be when Guy goes with his team to burn the ladies house down and he gets a glympse of the book and he finally realizes that he should read and thats when he starts to do his actions that he did in the book! during this time He would call Faber in hopes of finding out about books this character was scoped out by Montag early before the story began and was put in his list of future investigations, thats how he had his number.

3.The Challenges- The Challenges would be when he starts to tell his wife about the books and she freaks out, she is so caged in with her "Walls" in which she doesn't see the outside world!

4.The Journey into the Abyss- The Journey into the Abyss would be when Guy is confronted in front of Beatty and goes with his team to burn a house down, in this they arrive at his house in which Beatty told him to torch his own home! this infurriated Guy and thus killing Beatty with the kerosene! This leads him with only one thing to do run! he ran from the cops to Fabers house in which he was only there for a matter of enough time to change and run to the river.

5.Transformation- The transformation would be when Guy has fled and is in the river. In a way his life was killed but he has been reborn as the book of Ecclesticals when he meets the professors and has seen that all these men had gone through the same things!

6.Revelation- The revelation would be when the city he had once lived in was bombed and he viewed life in a different way in which it was something that was special and that should be remembered! In this he thinks about his wife who would probably be dead at this time!

7.Atonement-The Atonement would be when Guy accepts that he must live this life with his now colleagues and basically start over. This is understood because of the Revelation or the death of his past life!

8.The Return- The Return would be when Guy starts his new life in which he lives with his colleagues like life had never changed at all! he now thinks about "And when it came his turn, what could he say, what could he offer on a day like this, to make the trip easier?" (P.165) and once he thought of what he shall say he says "Yes, thought Montag, that's the one i'll save for noon. For noon... When we reach the City" (p.165)

Answer 3

In "The Giver," the steps of the hero's journey include the Call to Adventure when Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, Crossing the Threshold when he begins his training with the Giver, and the Ordeal when he learns the truth about his society and decides to escape. The journey concludes with the Return when Jonas escapes the community with Gabriel in search of a new beginning.