Approach the inmost cave, The Ordeal

When approaching the inmost cave the Hero will be making there final preparations for complete terror and wonder. The book used Wizard of Oz to explain how a hero will approach there inmost cave. There is usually a threshold guardian who confront the hero before they can enter another special world. This world is a world in another like Chinese boxes. For example the emerald city in the Oz. When a hero makes it in like Dorthy finnally getting to meet Oz she is given an impossible task. When they come to the inmost cave they have to realize that they are on the edge between life and death. That life is a ticking clock and that in the cave there is no turning back. The Hero must get into the opponents mind to out smart them. Finnaly the Hero has come to the big ordeal. The heart of the matter that must be dealt with. I big part of this stage is the Hero's death and rebirth. A hero must die to be reborn as a new person. They hero soon realizes that there greatest opponent is there own shadow. A villian is a hero's shadown in human form. A shawdow is a hero in there own story. So when the Hero is up the villian is down and when the villian is up the hero is down.

I though this section was intersting because it was getting to the core of every story. I liked the idea that every person has a villian deep down inside of them. That every one has a story. That even the villians could be looked at as a hero in a different light. I also liked how when talking about approching the inmost cave the used the Wizard of Oz as an example. It made it easyer for me to see what they were explaining.

I was a little confused by what they were taking about the placement of the Ordeal?