The road back After surviving the supreme ordeal, the hero is ready to return to the ordinary world. The forces opposing the hero regroup and make one final attempt to defeat the hero, who seems almost vanquished, but then recovers, as if miraculously. But Truman survives. Having survived all his tests, the hero is now ready to return to the ordinary world with his prize. In the James Bond movies, the prize is typically the world itself, which Bond has saved from destruction.
Myths are no mere diversion.
We draw inspiration from them. The sight of others facing obstacles, struggling, persevering and achieving, often on a grand scale, inspires us to persevere in our own struggles as well. To demand more and get more our of our own lives. For each of us is a hero too the hero of our own life stories, our own myths. If you study the various great legends or mythologies of the world and different cultures in almost every version of the heroes journey that exists, the first great rite of passage is the struggle to leave home.