It's a design pattern for stories called monomyth or The Hero's Journey. It's the same pattern found in the Bible, Star Wars, and many other epics. http://en.

It's a design pattern for stories called monomyth or The Hero's Journey. It's the same pattern found in the Bible, Star Wars, and many other epics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth Stories are important to humans because that is how we understand the world around us.