The Hero With A Thousand Faces Chapter Summary

The Heroic Journey of Jacob

Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, instituted the concept of the “monomyth,” the basic story pattern that can be applied to seemingly all literary works, which similarity shown as each of the text has a main character that goes on a journey. In the same way, the hero’s journey can be divided into three main sections: separation, initiation, and return. Into the three main sections, here are the several stages as the call to adventure, road of trail and magic flight, which all of these stages were shown in a lifelike way in the novel named Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar children.

The hero’s call to adventure is always the main character’s first step of the journey and never leaves the character throughout the story. In the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the Jacob’s first steps in his journey, which was begun with his grandpa Portman’s last words. In novel, Jacob’s grandpa Portman notes, “ Find the bird. In the loop. On the other side of the old man’s grave.

In Miss Peregrine’s for Peculiar Children, the magic flight is between Jacob the protagonist and his adversary Dr. Golan. In novel, Riggs notes, “ he comes with a gun,” Hugh said, studying the dirt… he touched the back of his ear and his finger s came away spotted with blood”(Riggs 309), shows Dr. Golan is ready for the fight, and has the relief to subdue everyone else. Same way for Jacob, he states in novel, “ I had, just for a moment, a clear shot. Tried to empty my mind and focus on steadying my arm, creating an imaginary line that extended fro my shoulder through the sight to my target... Now Squeeze”(Riggs 327), shows that Jacob is one hundred present focus on the fighting now. And in the finish, Jacob killed Dr. Golan, then their relationship concluded