Brief Summary Of Ofeli A Hero's Journey

This story is based off of a girl named Ofelia, who believes in fairy tales and is stuck at an intersection of two worlds. The adult world of war, pain, and suffering and the her world of fantasy, adventure, and innocence that she very often escapes to. And as the story goes on, Ofelia is forced into the adult world by her and her mother moving into a military camp with her stepfather who has no boundries of evil. He is a very abusive man who is evil through and through and has no sense of imagination.

The stepfather is named Vidal and he is the captain of this military camp. He is a murderous being who has no limitation of his abusive nature. He supports fascism and was named after his father whom was also a famous commander who was
Waiting for her to go in and to never be seen again. “Yes, keep walking that way little girl.” He whispered under his breath. Wishing that she would just walk in there already. But before she even take another step, Mercedes came out of nowhere and stopped Ofelia from pursuing her “adventure.” Letting out a long breath, the captain's smile faded away and was disappointed.

On that night, two farmers were found walking around his camp by his men. His men thought of them as anti-fascists and brought them to the captain. On that very night, his sociopathic and cruel nature was revealed when he brutally and mercilessly murders the two farmers with a glass bottle to the face and bullet to the head. When he searched the farmers bags, he realized that they were actually hunting rabbits when he found two bucks (That is what you call a male rabbit.) stuffed down in there.

The captain then turned to to his lieutenant and held the bucks in front of his face and said, “ Next time, actually check their bags before I kill them. Eh.” And walked back towards the
When she approached, he turned around and shoved them into her. She let out a gasp. “For dinner tomorrow night.” He said with an evil grin upon his face. Mercedes nodded and walked to the kitchen. As she left, the captain just watched and when she was out of sight, he put his hands behind his back, looked around for a bit and then went straight to his office.

When the next day came around, he told his Carmen, his wife, about the dinner party he was having. He told her that he wanted her and her daughter there and that Ofelia be well behaved. Carmen, still being pregnant, wheeled off in her wheelchair to tell Ofelia. Carmen seemed as though she was getting sick from the baby and even though she was married to the captain, he could not have cared less about her. All he cares about is the baby she carries inside and nothing else. Ofelia on the other hand became worried about her mother's condition and a faun gave her a root that begins to cure her mother's