How the Grinch Became a Hero to Me :)

    

     Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call : In the very beginning, he could tell that he was different.  Now he lives in a cave, alone at the top of a mountain covered in snow.  His heart is 3 sizes to small.  He has turned his back on the world he used to know and has run out of patience sitting at the top of the mountain watching the Who's be happy and merry.  This year he has finally had enough - first it's the nosy teenagers who are brave enough to touch his door and get scared faceless when his "watch dog" comes snarling out of the door.  That is when he decides he needs a little social interaction-instead of sitting home trying to find ways to entertain himself, he dresses up and goes down to Whoville to raise some trouble.  This is where he hits his adventure.  While he is in the post office mixing up everyone's mail, Cindy Lou Who is  sent into the sorting room where she hears Max sneeze and Grinch Gesundheit him, she screams and falls into the mail sort smasher, just before she gets stamped by the huge stamp thing, he pulls her out saving her life.  She thanks him, and he refuses to be seen as a nice, soft person so he wraps her up in paper and leaves.

    Meeting With The Mentor: Cindy Lou decides that there is a soft side to this Mr. Grinch that everyone is so afraid of.  (After all - if he didn't have a spark of good, he would have let her get squished by the sorting machine).  She begins interviewing anyone and everyone who would know anything big or small about him, she wanted every shred of information she could get.  She interviews the ladies who took car of him as a small child, his elementary crush the Beautiful Martha May, and Augustus Maywho, the mayor and Grinch's least favorite person in Whoville.


 Crossing the Threshold, Tests Allies Enemies, Approach: Cindy learns a lot and decides to nominate him for the annual Holiday Cheer Meister award.  She is received with shock from the whole town, but eventually gets them to agree. She goes up to his cave to invite him down to accept his award.  She slowly talks him into coming down to town, by showing him that no matter how scary he made himself seem - he didn't scare her. Not one little bit.

     Ordeal: The Grinch - after much deliberation with himself-decides to drop down in town and accept his award.  He makes a grand entrance is attacked by old ladies with a light-up i love x-mas sweater and fruit cake, old men with homemade fudge and a Chair of Cheer he is exhausted.  He is presented with a gift from the mayor, it is a shaver- these bring back bad memories and snap him back into reality.  He watches his enemy propose to his love, then he wreaks havoc on the town, burns down the tree in city square and escapes back to Mt. Crumpit.

  

     Reward: He plots a way to get even with the town and comes up with a marvelous plan... HE WILL STEAL CHRISTMAS!  He makes a sleigh and a vaccum to make gathering things up easier. He waits for Santa to leave then goes down and takes everything Santa gave the town.  He escapes with his reindeer Max, pulling the sleigh up to the highest peak, and he rewards himself with all the gifts and food from the icebox's he raided and to watch the town melt-down when they realize there is no Christmas.

     The Road Back: The town finally listens to Cindy Lou and they realize that it isn't all about gifts and lights, it is about being with the people you love.  So he gets angry when he sees that they are still happy and singing, and that he went to all that trouble and failed at stopping Christmas, but as he sits there, he thinks and the sun rises and his heart begins to grow, because he is "toasty" inside. The sled begins sliding over the cliff and he looks up to find that Cindy is on top of the sleigh that is about to go off the cliff.  He picks it up and sets it back to go back down and fix Christmas.

     Resurrection: He and Cindy drive the sleigh back down the mountain into town and he apologizes for messing up Christmas, and that everything is in the sleigh, and is accounted for.

 
    Return With Elixir:  Martha May tells the Mayor Augustus - Grinch's enemy that she cannot marry him because her heart belongs to the Grinch.  He invites everyone to his cave for the Christmas feast and everything is all better!


Masks:

• Hero" to serve and sacrifice": Cindy Lou and in the end, Grinch.
• Mentor"to guide": Lou Who, Grinch's Mothers, Martha May.
• Threshold Guardian"to test": The people of Whoville, Grinch tests Cindy.
• Herald"to warn and challenge":Cindy, Grinch, Augustus Maywho.
• Shapeshifter"to question and deceive": Grinch, Mayor Augustus.
• Shadow"to destroy": Mayor, Grinch.
• Trickster"to disrupt": GRINCH.