Showing the Hero’s Inner-Outer Problems, the Hero’s Lack, and the

58 But Id like to see the castles in the towns where they live, the boy explained. Those people, when they see our land, say that they would like to live here forever, his father continued. Well, Id like to see their land, and see how they live, said his son. The people who come here have a lot of money to spend, so they can afford to travel, his father said. Amongst us, the only ones who travel are the shepherds. Well, then Ill be a shepherd His father said no more. The next day, he gave his son a pouch that held three ancient Spanish gold coins Coelho, 1993: 9 In The Ordinary World, Santiago has desire to become a traveler so that he abandons his father’s choice of directing Santiago to become a priest. Santiago’s father tells him that it is nearly imposible to become a traveler, for to travel the world needs a lot of money. Since they are living in farmer family, his father tells him that the only ones who can travel are the shepherds. The fact that he is lack of fund to spend, Santiago insist to travel the world anyhow, and he choses to be a shepherd. Then, his father afford him to buy some sheeps. I can work for the rest of today, the boy answered. Ill work all night, until dawn, and Ill clean every piece of crystal in your shop. In return, I need money to get to Egypt tomorrow. The merchant laughed. Even if you cleaned my cr ystal for an entire year… even if you earned a good commission selling every piece, you would still have to borrow money to get to Egypt. There are thousands of kilometers of desert between here and there Coelho, 1993: 47 In the Special World, Santiago is undertaking the quest, heading to the Pyramid of Egypt. For some reason, however, he loses all his money when he arrives at Tangier, a port city of Morroco. After chaotic moment and desperate, he decides to work for a crystal merchant. Expectedly, he can get money to continue his journey. Santiago oferrs his enthusiast to the merchant that he can work for the rest of day, all night, and until dawn. Then, santiago tells the merchant that the money he gets will be used to go to Egypt. In this situation, the merchant feels 59 funny. The merchant tells Santiago that the money he will get from the work in crystal store is not enough to fund his journey to Egypt, for it is too far from Tangier and there is thousands kilometers of desert. Santiago, absolutly, can afford the caravan to ride on the desert.

2. The Call to Adventure

The call to adventure is actually a process of selection in which a selected hero, willingly or not, must take responsibility. As noted in chapter two, the call to adventure comes in special circumstances like a dark forest or an abandoned sacred building. The change of the event signifies that a destiny will test hero’s spirituality and takes him from his ordinary world out to a zone of unknown. In the novel, Santiago’s recurrent dream is the call to adventure. Meanwhile, the change of the event is the transformation of the plot line from the reality to the realm of dream. This transformation signifies that there is an adventure that Santiago must take to leave Andalusia for a place that he has never been there before. The call may come more than once in order to get the respond from the hero. Moreover, the call is generally brought by heralds that bring such temptations and knowledge to awaken the hero that he must undertake the adventure.

a. The Call Comes More than Once

The call to adventure comes not only from Santiago ’s dream, but also from his wish. Both wish and dream coincidentally happen as he arrives and camps in the abandoned church under a sycamore tree. The wish is the call since, according to Jung in Vogler, 2007: 100, the call to adventure could be simply