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Vogler, Christopher. “Approach to the Inner Most Cave” “The Ordeal” The Writer’s Journey:Mythic Structure for Writers. 3rd Edition. Studio City, California: Michael Wiese Productions,2007. 143-173.

There are many different aspects and scenes that are contained inside the inner most cave. Most of these obstacles are dangerous to the heroes journey to The Ordeal. The inner most cave is where the heroes and their men are joyous and have their last cigarette before they enter this new world with a different set of rules. also in the ordeal, this is the part where something changes the hero forever, whether it be good or bad. the placement of the Ordeal differs in every story. The points of tension are a very important structure technique that helps support keeping the audiences attenion. Also there is a lot of talk about death in these chapters such as hero witnesses death, hero causes death, hero appears to die, taste of death, and death of a villian, now not all of these can actually be life losing death but maybe the death of a relationship or an era.




As time goes on in this reading I am becoming more and more interested and I find myself looking at the people in my life and looking at the obstacles I have faced. Though sometimes it is easier to point out who is what character in someone else’s hero story than my own. Like in my own hero story my approach to the inner-most cave is when I Kassandra moves to Siseria. as with the witness to sacrifice, it really explained something about myself that I never knew; anyone being in a near death experience just makes life seem so much sweeter and important. People who have never been in that sort of situation willnever know what it's like, they may say they know or learn to live their life better in a sense where life is a precious thing, but to those who have been in a near death experience, like the hero, it changed me. It's kind of like having a baby, only those who have had one can say they know exactly what it's like compared to those who say they know what it's like but have never experienced it.

Why should a hero have to make these transitions?

What is vogler trying to say about our own person?

What is suppose to change in the hero