1. The Hero Cycle: Parallels between Jack Sparrow and Odysseus
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The Hero Cycle: Parallels between Jack Sparrow and Odysseus

2. Call to Action Odysseus Is forced to fight in the Trojan War
Jack Sparrow
Will Turner asks him for help to save Elizabeth Swann, and he needs a new ship

3. Getting a crew and a ship for departure
Preparation
Odysseus Experience fighting in the Trojan War and outwitting the Trojans
Jack Sparrow
Getting a crew and a ship for departure

4. Odysseus Gets a crew and endears himself to Athena
Allies
Odysseus Gets a crew and endears himself to Athena
Jack Sparrow
Gets a crew and befriends Will Turner

5. Guardians of the Threshold
Odysseus Beginning the voyage home
Jack Sparrow
Jack begins the journey to Isla de Muerta

6. Crossing the Threshold
Odysseus The ship is blown off- course by the winds
Jack Sparrow
Jack and his crew reach the island

7. Road of Trials Odysseus Jack Sparrow
Defeats the Cyclops, escapes the Lotus-eaters, Laistrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Sirens, and tricks Circe
Jack Sparrow
Escapes the island on which he was marooned, tricks both Norrington and Barbossa

8. Saving Experience
Odysseus Enters the Underworld and learns how to reach home
Jack Sparrow
Kills Barbossa

9. Transforming Changes
Odysseus Reaches Calypso’s island and cannot return home
Jack Sparrow
Shows that he genuinely cares for Will Turner when Jack saves him

10. The Return Odysseus Slaughters Penelope’s suitors Jack Sparrow
Escapes his hanging

11. Sharing the Gift
Odysseus Settles the conflict with the suitors, is reunited with Penelope, rules well over Ithaca
Jack Sparrow
Shows the governor and Commodore Norrington that a pirate can be a good man