heros journey

Hero’s Journey in Sponge Bob: The Movie Throughout history people have shared stories. A very popular story that is shared by almost all cultures around the world today is The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is present in many books and movies we see today. We see it in adult and children’s movies alike. One famous children’s movie where The Hero’s Journey is seen in is SpongeBob: The Movie. SpongeBob is the obvious example of a hero throughout Sponge Bob: The Movie. SpongeBob’s Hero Journey began when Mr. Crabs was accused of stealing King Neptune’s crown. SpongeBob SquarePants offered to go on the dangerous quest to get back King Neptune’s royal crown from Shell City in order to prove to the citizens of Bikini Bottom that he was not a kid and save Mr. Crabs’ life. SpongeBob didn’t refuse the call to action like many hero’s’ because he knew that even though Mr. Crabs didn’t promote him Mr. Crabs still didn’t deserve to die for something he didn’t do. Throughout the adventure SpongeBob had two main supernatural aids, Mindy and Patrick. Mindy was King Neptune’s daughter and helped SpongeBob on his journey because she didn’t agree with the way her father ruled the animals in the sea. She made sure that SpongeBob knew how difficult what he was about to do was and gave him a special bag of winds, that would help him get home, that she stole from her father, much like the bag of winds that Odysseus got from King Aleous in The Odyssey. Patrick helped SpongeBob by going on the adventure with him because he was SpongeBob’s best friend. Patrick supported SpongeBob and helped him overcome many obstacles in this Hero’s Journey. At one point Patrick and SpongeBob had to stop and fill up their vehicle, they got to the first threshold where they are warned once again about how dangerous it would be to continue on the journey. They ignored the two workers and crossed the county line. This was considered the first threshold because neither of them had ever left