Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
the character's dire situation. Audience members making strong identification with
a character in trouble will make the wish themselves, desiring the hero to be happy,
triumphant, or free, and getting themselves in alignment with the forces polarizing
the story.
Spoken or not, the story hears the wish, seemingly attracted by the intense
emotion contained in it. Carl Jung had a motto carved above his door, "Vocatus
atque non vocatus, deus aderit," which loosely translated means "Summoned or not,
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the god will come." In other words, when the emotional conditions are right, when
the need is great, there is an inner cry for change, a spoken or unspoken wish that
calls the story and the adventure into being.
T h e story's response to the human wish is often to send a messenger, some
annaabi.ee 
