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Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey

In fairy tales the donor might be 40  MENTOR a witch's cat, grateful for a little girl's kindness, who gives her a towel and a comb. Later when the girl is being chased by the witch, the towel turns into a raging river and the comb turns into a forest to block the witch's pursuit. Examples of these gifts are abundant in movies, from the small-time mobster Puttynose giving James Cagney his first gun in The Public Enemy to Obi W a n Kenobi giving Luke Skywalker his father's light-saber. Nowadays the gift is as likely to be a computer code as the key to a dragon's lair. GIFTS IN M Y T H O L O G Y Gift-giving, the d o n o r function o f the M e n t o r , has an i m p o r t a n t role in m y t h o l ­ ogy. M a n y heroes received gifts from their M e n t o r s , the g o d s . Pandora, whose