Hero's Journey 2: Ezra Bridger - Star Wars rebels Season S01E01 to S03E05

In this series of articles, I would like to study the Hero's journey. It is known that Joseph Campbell was a mentor of George Lucas and the Hero's Journey is a base for the build of the characters and the plot.

My plan is to try to describe the hero's journey of the main characters of StarWars : Luke, Anakin, Ezra, Ashoka, Rey and also counter heroes like Darth Maul and Kylo Ren.

This way I will be able to check if the model is still applied in the newer cannon material and try to extrapolate the model in order to make some thought of what might come in the futures movies or shows.

The so far achieved hero's Journey of Ezra Bridger:

1. THE ORDINARY WORLD.	Ezra is an orphan child on Lothal. Parents killed by the Empire. Living on is own. Steeling to survive. Just believes in himself.
2. THE CALL TO ADVENTURE.	The main fact that shakes the ordinary is the meeting with the Ghost crew but there are 2 different calls to Ezra.  The first one is that Ezra starts to realize that I can us his abilities not help only himself but all others in order to avoid that others are facing the tragedy he faced.  The second is the knowledge that his abilities are special and that he should learn more of the Force.
3. REFUSAL OF THE CALL.	I first refuse to help others. I does not trust in other them himself. For him nobody helps others. This does not exist! So when Hera press him to go and help the crew, he first refuses. Why should he help someone? Nobody ever helped him !
4. MEETING WITH THE MENTOR.	The Mentors are 2 : Kannan and Hera The articfact is the Force (through the holocron)
5. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD.	At the End of episode 1, Ezra understands that he can use his abilities to help people, he can join this crew = strange family.  He passes the threshold when he run and save the life of a young Wookie (a mirror of the drama the Empire reserved toEzra). He can give a sense to his life!  He also realise that the Force is something that he has the opportunity to use to grow and help people. He choose to be trained by Kannan.
6. TESTS, ALLIES AND ENEMIES.	Allies : Kannan, Zeb, Hera, Sabine, Chopper, Hando, Rex, Ashoka, Leia, YODA.  Enemies : The Empire, Kallus, Tarkin, The inquisitors, Darth Vader, Maul, Thrawn…  Tests : The need of focus and discipline as a padawan, the thin path between trusting feelings without seeking revenge, the fear of loosing his new family, the quest to find informations on parent and the news that they are dead, The fight that constantly seems uneven... Tempetation. Becoming a pirate with Hondo and leave the fight. Trust Maul to seek knowledge in the Sith holocron: the easy path through the dark side.   During this period Ezra is growing in maturity and in abilities of padawan. He understands the cost of war and he has to constantly control is emotions that would tend to bring him to the dark side. Indeed, when he unleashes is emotions he can accomplish great actions through the force (both good and bad).
7. APPROACH.	The rebellion is endangered due to thte fact that the inquisiters are searching for Kannan, Ezra and Ashoka. The approach goes through the visit to the Jedi Temple: Ezra talks to Yoda, Kannan is made a Jedi Knight, Ashoka sees anakin and definitly knows that he his Vader. THen, Ezra and his Jedi friends, have to split to the rest of the allies and go to their major challenge: Seek knowledge to defeat the inquisitors.
8. THE ORDEAL.	The Ordeal takes place on Malachor (closure episodes of Season2). Ezra enters a Sith temple: the place that represents Evil. He also meet Maul that tricks him to activate the Sith temple. Ezra nearly dies by the end of Vador. Kannan is blinded, Ashoka is left for dead. Ezra feels himself responsible for all of it has he pushed to trust Maul and activate the Temple. At this point Ezra looses himself to passion, anger and hate...
9. THE REWARD.	The treasure is the Sith holocron. But off course this is very dangerous. Kannan is not present. Ezra opens the holocron and seek knowledge and power out of it. He reborns as a strong fighter with no mercy to his opponents. He his falling to the dark side but for him it is the only way to get revenge on the one that destroyed is family again (Kannan blinded, Ashoka dead... )
10. THE ROAD BACK.	The road back starts when Kannan (The mentor) returns and make him understand that Ezra is not responsible for what happened. Moreover Ezra starts to understand how dangerous the Sith holocron is for him. Slowly Ezra finds is way back to the light and start to act like before the ordeal. New test, Enemies, Allies are appearing but the Resurrection and the Return with Elixir is yet to come...
11. THE RESURRECTION.	open
12. RETURN WITH THE ELIXIR.	open

I am working on a way to visualize the Jouney on a time scale ploting also the feelings of Ezra. It will be ready in the next weeks. 

Now I am thinking of what could be the next steps of Ezra.
Based on this model, What do you think will happen in the rest of Season 3 and the future upcoming Season 4 ? 

Here my article about Luke Journey : http://beingstarwarsfan.blogspot.fr/2016/08/heros-journey-1-luke-skywalker-original.html