Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone Follows Mythological Hero Model
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter is the hero of the story. I believe that this movie follows Joseph Campbell's model about the pattern of a hero's journey. Campbell wrote that there were three stages in every hero's mythological voyage. For the following five paragraphs, I compared the first stage, Departure, with the beginning of the movie.
The hero is called to adventure when Hagrid brings Harry to Dumbledore. This makes sense to me since when Dumbledore places Harry on the doorstep, he explains to Professor McGonagall about why he is leaving Harry with the Dursleys. He also says the words, "Â…until he is ready" and that, "it's not really good-bye after all". This means that Harry Potter will be seeing Dumbledore someday, and in a sense, that is how Harry is called to adventure. The movie then shows scenes of Harry Potter being maltreated by the Dursleys, which is everyday life to Harry. All the owls dropping in their letters into the house shows an example......
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