As stated earlier, once the hero initially crosses the threshold (the point of no return) as he enters the story’s second movement, he can never go home again. The new normal can, in fact, return a character to the same physical location from which he started, but the journey will have changed him in some important, even fundamental way. He may be back at his original physical “home,” but any number of things will have changed since he left. This is the protagonist’s new normal. Audiences who find the hero’s arrival at such a new normal to be physically or psychologically revelatory about that
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