The hero within

It's interesting that when reading literature there are so many "heroes" found. This so called hero can be a little girl who saves her grandmother, a miner boy, or even a hobbit. It was kind of odd to consider a strang little hobbit a hero, but after reading over the stages of the hero in the article about "The Hero with a thousand faces," it was clear to see. It's weird that as a child we look at a hero being someone like Superman and Wonderwoman, but as we grow up and read different types of literature, our perspective changes. As young adult/educated student, we consider a hero somebody who is basically introduced into a different world than his or her own, called to take some kind of adventure, encouraged to stick it out by some man or woman older and wiser, passes through the first threshold, encounters tests but helpers as well, reaches the intermost cave, endures the ultimate worst or "supreme ordeal," overcomes the enemy or obstacle, takes the road back, "resurrects" from this second world, and then finally returns to their own world with some type of treasure.