Of course, there must continue to be plenty of obstacles in his way, but this moment, which is usually fairly easy to identify, is full of high hopes or real determination. This is the moment when the protagonist actually crosses the threshold as he exits the world of his old life to begin his exciting new journey. This moment (or sometimes a sequence of moments) regularly shows up at the end of the story’s first movement—the end of the story’s beginning—and designates the leap into the greatest gulf of the story, its middle, thereby initiating the story’s second movement.
