Subverted!
- The final battle and climax is
more about Sadie resolving
her internal conflict rather
than a violent battle with the
enemy, her sister.
Subverted!
- The ‘damsel in distress’
doesn’t want to be saved.
- There are two heroes in
this story. Amira heard
the ‘Call to Adventure’
and here Sadie ‘Refuses
the Call’ to be rescued.
RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR
- Our heroes are reunited and
marry each other in the
Epilogue (Subverted! - as this is
not once of the traditional 12 stages)
Subverted!
- There is no traditional
mentor in this story.
Instead, Amira and Sadie
are each other’s mentors.
Subverted!
- Our two heroes cross the
threshold together.
Subverted!
- Instead of a ‘damsel in
distress’ our heroes
encounter a ‘dude in
distress’ whom they have
to rescue.
SEIZING THE SWORD
- Amira and Sadie
celebrate their victory by
demonstrating and
embracing their
strengths, symbolic of a
transformation in terms of
self-acceptance.
Subverted!
- The ‘enemy’ turns out to
be just a misunderstood
ogre and Sadie engages
him through empathetic
listening rather than
brutal violence.
TESTS
ALLIES
ALLIES
APPROACH TO THE INMOST CAVE
- Both our heroes make the approach.
For Sadie it is about trust and
self-acceptance and for Amira it is
about morality and what it means to
be a hero.
ENEMIES