The best way to answer this question is to review the plot of
the novel and try to match each of these aspects of the Hero's Journey with similar points in
Atticus' journey. Although the steps go in a particular order, matching them to specific plot
points in a fictional narrative may mean they occur slightly out of
order.
One threshold guardian for Atticus is Scout: despite her own
struggles to be a good person, her strength of will and inherent honesty, as well as her
precocious maturity in many aspects of her personality, mean that she becomes an effective (if
young) mentor to Atticus, perhaps reminding him of himself and his own strong-willed
youth.
The hero's journey is ultimately a search for self; usually
the hero ends up learning that he/she always had what they were seeking for at the outset of the
journey, but were unable to realize it at the time.
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