The Character Of Jyn Erso In Star Wars Rogue One

Jyn Erso is the protagonist and hero of Star Wars Rogue One. Jyn Erso was a human female soldier and former criminal who became a pivotal member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic when she led Rogue One in stealing the Death Star plans during the Battle of Scarif. While to many it may seem the Jyn life does not resemble the life of a hero and more of that to an anti-hero, her story from the film fits the “mold” of Joseph Campbell's stages of the Monomyth and the Raglan's Hero Pattern quite well.
Starting with her birth, she was the daughter of Lyra Erso, a devout member of the Church of the Force, and scientist Galen Erso, who was forced into helping the Galactic Empire build the Death Star. Erso's mother was killed when Director Orson Krennic, the commander of the Death Star project, kidnapped her father to help in the development of the Death Star laser. Jyn Erso escaped from Director Krennic and was rescued by a friend of the Erso family, Saw Gerrera, who raised Jyn as his own daughter. Jyn’s birth and upbringing can be seen as a Hero’s birth, as she is the daughter of one of the most important scientists in the Empire (can be seen as the daughter of a king), it is

Moments before an attempt to rescue Galen, Director Krennic arrives to reprimand Galen for his deception and for compromising the Death Star project. An aerial dogfight ensues as x-wing pilots from the Alliance arrive to attack the research base of Eadu. Galen is injured in the ensuing fight but is reunited with his daughter one last time as he asks her for forgiveness for having to have dragged her into the fight against the Empire. Galen dies but is able to tell Jyn that the information the Alliance seeks to counter the Death Star can be found in the Imperial outpost in the tropical planet Scarif (this together with Saw’s death on the planet of Jedha can be seen as the death of a mentor and the atonement with the