A Hero’s Journey: Peer Analysis & Editing
Story Writer’s Name:
Story Editor’s Name:
ACT 1: DEPARTURE
What is the hero being asked to do?
The Ordinary World
1.
Identify the story’s exposition:
1. Who are the characters
and what role do they
play?:
2. Where and when does the
story take place?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
visualize the characters
and the setting?
The Call to Adventure
1.
Identify the story’s conflict:
1. What is the conflict?
2. What type of conflict did
the writer use (person vs
person, etc.):
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
visualize the conflict?
The Refusal of the Call
1.
Identify the refusal of the call:
1. Why did the hero refuse
the call to adventure?
2. What is the character trait
or weakness the writer
has defined for the hero?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
understand why the hero
refused the call?
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Mentor
1.
Identify the story’s mentor:
1. Who is the mentor in this
story?
2. How does the mentor
support the hero?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
visualize the mentor?
Crossing the Threshold
1.
Identify when/how/why the
hero crosses the threshold:
1. What favor or request is
the hero working toward?
(What is the hero being
asked to do?)
2. Why did the hero decide
to cross the threshold?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
understand why the hero
decided to accept the
quest?
Suggestions/Feedback:
Provide additional
suggestions, advice, and/or
feedback to help the writer
improve the quality of Act 1 DEPARTURE.
Consider the following:
1. Point of view (voice)
2. Proper use of dialogue
3. Sensory details (show not
tell)
4. Word choice
5. Theme
6. Transitions (organization)
7. Sentence structure & flow
8. Mechanics (spelling,
punctuation,
capitalization, verb tense)
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ACT 2: INITIATION
What does the hero do on the journey?
The Road of Trials
(Tests, Allies, Enemies)
1.
Identify the story’s rising
action (trials, challenges,
tests):
1. What trials, challenges, or
tests does the hero face?
(What does the hero do
on the journey?)
2. How did the hero fail to
overcome the challenges
he faced?
3. Did the writer clearly
define 3 events that
support the rising action?
Approach the Inmost Cave
1.
Identify how/when the hero
approaches the inmost cave.
1. How does the hero
prepare to face the
supreme danger lurking in
the special world?
2. What is the supreme
danger lurking in the
special world?
3. Did the writer provide
enough suspense to help
the reader understand the
danger the hero is facing?
The Supreme Ordeal
1.
Identify the story’s climatic
moment:
1. How does the hero
confront the most difficult
challenge?
2. What is the “death” that
the hero experiences?
3. Did the writer provide
enough detail to create an
excitingly suspenseful
climactic moment?
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Suggestions/Feedback:
Provide additional
suggestions, advice, and/or
feedback to help the writer
improve the quality of Act 2 INITIATION.
Consider the following:
1. Point of view (voice)
2. Proper use of dialogue
3. Sensory details (show not
tell)
4. Word choice
5. Theme
6. Transitions (organization)
7. Sentence structure & flow
8. Mechanics (spelling,
punctuation,
capitalization, verb tense)
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ACT 3: RETURN
What does the hero achieve in the end?
The Reward
1.
Identify the story’s falling
action:
1. What reward did the hero
earn? (What does the
hero achieve in the end?)
2. How does the hero
celebrate overcoming
their greatest fear?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
understand and visualize
the events of the falling
action?
The Road Back
1.
Identify the hero’s Road Back
to the ordinary world.
1. What challenge does the
hero face on the journey
home?
2. What personal
characteristics may have
prevented the hero from
succeeding in returning
home without help?
3. Did the writer use sensory
details to describe (show
not tell) how the hero felt
as he prepared to return
to the ordinary world?
The Resurrection
1.
Identify how the hero faces
the resurrection.
1. How has the hero’s life
transformed now that he
has returned home?
2. What lessons or insights
has the hero learned from
this journey?
3. Did the writer provide
enough descriptors and
details to help the reader
understand how the hero
has been transformed?
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The Return with Elixir
1.
Identify the story’s
conclusion:
1. What has the hero
learned on the journey?
2. How does the hero
benefit from
accomplishing the quest?
3. Did the writer provide a
reasonable conclusion
that makes sense with
the entire timeline of the
events? (Does the story
feel finished?)
Suggestions/Feedback:
Provide additional
suggestions, advice, and/or
feedback to help the writer
improve the quality of Act 3 RETURN.
Consider the following:
1. Point of view (voice)
2. Proper use of dialogue
3. Sensory details (show not
tell)
4. Word choice
5. Theme
6. Transitions (organization)
7. Sentence structure & flow
8. Mechanics (spelling,
punctuation,
capitalization, verb tense)
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