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peer viewers is because they have the same study program and concentration with the researcher. Moreover, the researcher also consulted with the two supervisors,
Ari Nurhayati, M.Hum, and Eko Rujito Dwi Atmojo, S.S., M.Hum, since both of them are scholars in literature.
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CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This chapter elaborates the finding and discussion of the research. The data are used to clarify and verify the discussion. There are two major parts for
this chapter. The first part answers the first research question along with its discussion. The researcher finds all of the twelve stages of the archetypes of
hero’s journey in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. The archetpes of hero’s journey in the novel demonstrate that
The Alchemist’s narrative pattern follows the universal pattern of the Monomyth, a mythic structure of Separation
– Initiation - Return. The second part answers the second question. It uncovers the literary
elements used to reveal those archetypes. Structuralism approach is used, with the aim to expose the finding, showing that the narrative pattern of a single story is
integrated into a kind of structure which is constructed as the form patterns for all stories. In the process to prove that the narrative pattern of The Alchemist
complies with the form of the archetypes of hero’s journey, Christopher Vogler’s
version of mythic structure is applied.
A. The Archetypes of Hero’s Journey in The Alchemist
There are twelve stages according to Vogler that a hero must undergo in his journey that signify the Monomyth of Separation- Initiation- Return.
Separation or act one consists of the stages of The Ordinary World, The Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Meeting with the Mentor, and Crossing the First
Threshold. Initiation or act two special world consists os the stages of Tests- Allies-Enemies, The Approach to the Inmost Cave, the crisis or Supreme Ordeal,
