The Journey
Ordinary World: Mike O'Donnell has a dead end job and does the same thing every day. He doesn't have a good relationship with his kids and his marriage is rapidly coming to a close.
Call: Mike does not get the higher position at his job, which should cause him to take action. Not to mention the fact that his marriage has fallen apart.
Refusal: Instead of doing something to change his life, he merely goes back to his old high school and looks at pictures of what he used to be.
Mentor: Mike talks to his "spirit guide" who is disguised as the school janitor. The janitor is the one who decides to shove Mike in the right direction. Ned Gold, his long time best friend, is also Mike's mentor throughout the whole journey.
Threshold: Mike sees the janitor about to jump off of a bridge. Mike goes to help him but he is already gone, when Mike looks over the bridge he falls over, literally crossing the threshold and turning seventeen years old again.
Tests, allies, enemies: Mike's enemy throughout the story is his own blindness to what he did wrong and Maggie's boyfriend, Stan, who is the school bully and is preventing Mike from getting close to his daughter.
Approach: His approach is just as he gets closer to his kids. He gets Alex, his son, a girlfriend and gets Maggie to understand that Stan is not a good guy. He learns to care about Scarlet, his wife, again and they fall in love again.
Ordeal: The ordeal is similar to the approach, really just the same things. Also, after the basketball team's first game, Mike throws a party at his house that the whole school is invited to. When Scarlet comes to find Alex, Mike kisses Scarlet. Unfortunately, she slaps him, as he is 20 years younger than her, and the house is in shambles as Ned comes back from his own date.
Reward: Mike gets a kiss from Scarlet and gets closer to his kids.
The Road Back: Mike realizes that he screwed things up and tries to make things better by reading a fake letter to Scarlet at court for their divorce. He decides to really get into basketball to get a scholarship, as he doesn't believe that there is a "p
ath" to follow anymore.
Call: Mike does not get the higher position at his job, which should cause him to take action. Not to mention the fact that his marriage has fallen apart.
Refusal: Instead of doing something to change his life, he merely goes back to his old high school and looks at pictures of what he used to be.
Mentor: Mike talks to his "spirit guide" who is disguised as the school janitor. The janitor is the one who decides to shove Mike in the right direction. Ned Gold, his long time best friend, is also Mike's mentor throughout the whole journey.
Threshold: Mike sees the janitor about to jump off of a bridge. Mike goes to help him but he is already gone, when Mike looks over the bridge he falls over, literally crossing the threshold and turning seventeen years old again.
Tests, allies, enemies: Mike's enemy throughout the story is his own blindness to what he did wrong and Maggie's boyfriend, Stan, who is the school bully and is preventing Mike from getting close to his daughter.Approach: His approach is just as he gets closer to his kids. He gets Alex, his son, a girlfriend and gets Maggie to understand that Stan is not a good guy. He learns to care about Scarlet, his wife, again and they fall in love again.
Ordeal: The ordeal is similar to the approach, really just the same things. Also, after the basketball team's first game, Mike throws a party at his house that the whole school is invited to. When Scarlet comes to find Alex, Mike kisses Scarlet. Unfortunately, she slaps him, as he is 20 years younger than her, and the house is in shambles as Ned comes back from his own date.
Reward: Mike gets a kiss from Scarlet and gets closer to his kids.
The Road Back: Mike realizes that he screwed things up and tries to make things better by reading a fake letter to Scarlet at court for their divorce. He decides to really get into basketball to get a scholarship, as he doesn't believe that there is a "p
ath" to follow anymore.Death: At the final big game where the scouts are coming to watch him, the whole scene from 1989 replays right before Mike's eyes. Scarlet also realizes that the same thing is happening so she leaves the gym, just like she did before.
Resurrection: Mike knows that he cannot make the same mistake again so he drops the basketball in the middle of the game, just like before, and runs after Scarlet, just like before.
Return with Elixir: Mike is a changed person, realizes what he has done wrong and has vowed to make things right again. He has gotten Maggie and Alex back on the right path and his marriage is going swimmingly once again.
Archetypes
Resurrection: Mike knows that he cannot make the same mistake again so he drops the basketball in the middle of the game, just like before, and runs after Scarlet, just like before.
Return with Elixir: Mike is a changed person, realizes what he has done wrong and has vowed to make things right again. He has gotten Maggie and Alex back on the right path and his marriage is going swimmingly once again.
Archetypes
Hero: Mike is the hero because he is the one changing to try to get his family back together again and fix all of his mistakes.
Mentor: Ned is Mike's mentor because he helps him through the whole journey, including help figure out what happened when Mike's age rewound back to seventeen years old. Also, Mike is the mentor to his children and Naomi is the mentor to Scarlet.
Threshold Guardian: The janitor, because he is the one who really shoves Mike through the threshold, knowing what Mike has to do to pull his life together once again.
Herald: Scarlet's friend Naomi because the comments that she makes to Scarlet really wake Mike up, making him understand that Scarlet is moving on with her life.
Shapeshifter: This is Mike when Mike is under the impression that he is just comforting Maggie and she really thinks that he likes her. It is also Maggie when she starts to hit on Mike, not knowing that he isn't actually interested in her.
Shadow: Stan is one of the shadows, as he is just not a nice kid and is what holding Maggie back from moving on with her life. It is also Mike's simple blindness to the fact of what he is doing wrong in his relationship with his family.
Threshold Guardian: The janitor, because he is the one who really shoves Mike through the threshold, knowing what Mike has to do to pull his life together once again.Herald: Scarlet's friend Naomi because the comments that she makes to Scarlet really wake Mike up, making him understand that Scarlet is moving on with her life.
Shapeshifter: This is Mike when Mike is under the impression that he is just comforting Maggie and she really thinks that he likes her. It is also Maggie when she starts to hit on Mike, not knowing that he isn't actually interested in her.
Shadow: Stan is one of the shadows, as he is just not a nice kid and is what holding Maggie back from moving on with her life. It is also Mike's simple blindness to the fact of what he is doing wrong in his relationship with his family.
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