Rule #1: Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It’s Not)

Every Trip = Quest*

1. Quester
2. Place to Go
3. State Reason to Go There
4. Challenges & Trials
5. A Real Reason to Go

Outcome = Self – Knowledge (May appear as a change)

Examples:

Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queen, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, North by Northwest
*except when it’s not

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off / The Goonies

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