The Hero’s Journey: Your Own Plot

Act I:

Ordinary World: The young rebellious teenager Jaclyn attends high school in Brooklyn, New York. She lives with her father and her little brother Christian, and she’s a struggling drug addict.

Call to Adventure: Jaclyn isn’t able to pay her drug dealer the money she owns him, so her drug dealer (Jake) decides to give an alternative solution where Jaclyn becomes a drug dealer for him.

Refusal of the Call: Jaclyn refuses as she doesn’t want to put herself into more danger and more risk of being arrested then she already is in.

Meeting with the Mentor: When Jaclyn is face with her dealer Jake she realises that either she deals for Jake or she loses everything and everyone she’s ever loved. 

Crossing the First Threshold: Jaclyn’s first task is it work through all of Jake’s clients and deal to anyone he tells her to.

Act II:

Tests, Allies, Enemies: Jaclyn very quickly figures out who her friends and enemies are, she meets our second main character Robyn who seems to care about jaclyn and tries to help her get out of the drug dealing deal she has with Jake.

Approach to the Inmost Cave: One afternoon Jaclyn goes over to Robyn’s house and discovers that Robyn’s father is a police officer, he finds out about Jaclyn’s situation and proposes are scenario to her. 

Ordeal: Once Jaclyn speaks with Robyn’s father she discovers that she can help bring Jake to justice. Jaclyn is now faced with the difficult task of incriminating Jake before he finds out she’s a “rat.”

Reward: Jaclyn is about to take Jake down with the help of Robyn’s father and he is sent to prison. 

Act III:

The Road Back: Jaclyn enters rehab and works slowly through her addiction, she struggles going in an out of rehab but it on the road back home.

Resurrection: She finally is able to kick her addiction and go through rehab properly.

Return with the Elixir: Jaclyn returns home from rehab after a year of sobriety and fighting her demons. She returns to Robyn and her father to thank them a final time for all the help they had done for her. 

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