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Hercules’s gift of the goddess is when he gets the gift to become a full god again from his father Zeus. His father also gave him the option to remain mortal but come to visit him anytime he wants. Hercules chose to stay mortal because he realized he was in love with Meg and did not want to leave her. Hercules’s father accepted

his decision and let him stay mortal to be with Meg.

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My statement illustrates this step because whenever a hero does something great like finish a mission, rescue a damsel in distress, or saves the city. He receives a gift “ of the goddess” to show the peoples appreciation. This shows that he did something great in order to get this special recognition

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My gift of the goddess was when my final report card came home for the semester. This was my biggest accomplishment. It felt good to come home and see my “reward” sitting on the table waiting for me to open it. I knew at that moment that all my temptations that I refused and all the help I got from my mentors, payed off. This was my proof. I felt very proud of myself at that moment in time. This was my gift I received for my hard work.

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Hercules’s temptation was Meg. Meg proves to be a temptation because she tries to seduce the weakness out of him. Also, she ends up falling for him and he ends up falling for her but they both don’t know about it. She is a temptation because she gets inside of Hercules’s head and get him to only think about her and not his “mission”.

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My statement illustrates this step because many heros face tough temptations sometimes. Heros also sometimes make the wrong decisions. Temptations make a heros journey harder because if he goes down the wrong path, the journey might end up going the way he thought it would.

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My biggest temptation was choosing my academic life over my social life. This was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. I have always had enough time to do both but when the homework load hit hard from the unknown world, I knew there was going to have to be a sacrifice. This was very hard for me to do. It was my biggest temptation. It still is today. It’s not easy to say no to your friends when you know they are going to go do something fun without you. I admit, I have made the wrong decision many times by choosing to go hang out with my friends before I did my homework. This actually caused me to be more stressed because I could not enjoy myself as much because I knew I had to go home and do homework.

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Hercules’s mentor was Philoctetes. He is the trainer that helps him realize the strength that he has so he can become a real hero again and be reunited with his mother and father. It takes a lot of begging on Hercules’s part because Philoctetes

does not want to train him at first.

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My statement illustrates this step because the mentors of heros are always there to help them whenever they are in need of assistance, training or anything else that they need. The mentor is the person who helps the hero to succeed their mission/ journey. This is what my teachers are doing for me. Just as a heros mentor will do for them.

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When I came into the unknown world I met six amazing mentors that I knew were going to help me get through my first semester of high school. These new six teachers of mine were very helpful from the beginning. Every question I had, they answered, every project that i faced, they helped me understand the reasoning behind why I was making it, and very challenged that I faced, we faced it together. I knew from the first day that I would always have my teachers beside me as my amazing mentors.

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Hercules’s call to adventure is when his “mother and father” tell him that he is not their biological son. They found him outside of their house when he was a baby. They tell him that they found a medallion on him from Zeus kingdom. Zeus tell Hercules that he is his father and he wants him to
join him in Olympus to become  “ true hero”

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My statement illustrates this step because every hero at first resist their call to action. They refuse to take the “offer” that is on the table for them to move on and “grow up” in life. This is just like me when I knew that I had to accept the fact that I did not have a choice to accept my call to action.

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My call to action was my 8th grade promotion. At first, I honestly did not want to accept the fact that I was going to be leaving a very known world, San Elijo Middle, to the great unknown, San Marcos High School.

I was trying to resist this as much as possible. Then at the end I had to accept the fact that I am growing up and had to cross the threshold to move into the unknown world.