Blog 7: The Crow Hero's Quest

Departure

1. The Call to Adventure
The first call to adventure is when Eric, the main character, and his girlfriend Shelly are attacked in their apartment. Eric is killed by getting pushed out of the 5th floor apartment building and his girlfriend Shelly is raped and beaten and later dies in the hospital.

2.Refusal of the Call
There is no refusal of the call as everything happened to Eric involuntary.

3. Supernatural Aid
The supernatural aid is the crow who follows Eric around and initially awakens him from the dead.

4. The Crossing of the First Threshold
The crossing of the first threshold is when Eric is first woken up from the dead by the crow and back into present time. Eric wakes up and has no recollection of what happened and does not know where he is or whats going on.

5. The Belly of the Whale
The belly of the whale happens when after Eric wakes up, he goes back to his old apartment and finds a mask which Shelly had painted. When he touches the mask it triggers flashbacks of their past and starts remembering the attack and starts his journey for revenge on their attackers.

Initiation

1. The Road of Trials
After seeing the flash backs of Eric's past and Shelly leaves his apartment and then enters a local pawn shop and searches for Shelly's wedding ring. When he touches Shelly's ring he instantly has a flashback of all the attackers. He then has to find out who the attackers are and does so by questioning the pawn shop owner. After finding out who the attackers are and realizing the the pawn shop owner is somehow involved with them, Eric kills him and begins his search for the attackers.

2. Meeting With the Goddess
The meeting with the goddess actually happens during the belly of the whale step. When Eric has his initial flash back in the apartment, he remembers Shelly and their unconditional love, and wants to then seek vengeance on their attackers and go back to rest next to where Shelly is buried.

3. Woman as a Temptress
During the movie Eric meets with Sarah, a young girl that who was friend with Shelly and Eric who used to take care of her because her mother was reckless, irresponsible and was a heavy drug user. Eric strays away from his quest after killing FunBoy (one of their attackers) and coincidentaly finds Sarah's mother with him. Darla cuts Eric with a razor out of fear and these wounds do not heal because she is not involved with his quest. Eric sees the marks on her arm from the needles and is able to push the drug out of her arm and tells her that her daughter is out on the streets and to go to her.

4. Atonement with the Father
Eric finds out where the attackers headquarters is from one of the attackers that he killed. When he goes to their base he finds the last attacker that he must kill, he finds another man named TopDollar, who is the boss of the gang and is the one who ordered the attack on Eric and Shelly.

5. Apotheosis
After Eric kills all the attackers from the night they were killed, he knows about the boss and although did not directly attack them, he was the one who ordered the attack and wants to kill TopDollar also. But because TopDollar was not directly involved in the attack, Eric loses his supernatural powers and is now mortal. Eric still pushes to go after TopDollar knowing that he has no powers against him.

6. The Ultimate Boon
Eric and TopDollar have a battle on the roof of a church. Eric kills TopDollar and makes him "feel Shelly's pain." After he kills TopDollar is goal of revenge is complete.

Return

1. Refusal of the Return
There is no refusal of return, as all Eric wanted most was to able to be back with Shelly in afterlife.

2. The Magic Flight
There is no magic flight in this movie. After Eric kills TopDollar, he walks down the church steps and into the cemetery where him and Shelly are buried.

3. Rescue from Without
When Eric enters the cemetery, he lays down by Shelly's grave. Eric and Shelly are then reunited when Shelly appears at the grave dressed in white to take him back to the afterlife.

4. The Crossing of the Return Threshold
After Eric and Shelly are reunited and at peace, Sarah visits their graves and the crow gives her the wedding ring. Sarah takes the ring and knowledge of what has happened with Eric and Shelly that true love lasts even through death.

5. Master of the Two Worlds
Once Eric and Shelly are reunited, Erik is happy that he can now rest in peace and that he can now leave the present world.

6. Freedom to Live
In this movie, it is more the opposite; freedom of death. After his mission is complete, Eric accepts what has happened in the past and can now rest peacefully in death.