The story you just “read” had the shape of a trickster tale, a story in which a character tries to improve his status and manages to lower it instead. However, the comic appears in a much longer graphic story that could be read as an example of the hero’s journey. Each episode at the beginning of Pepper & Carrot includes details that usually appear at the start of the hero’s journey, during the departure stage.

During the departure stage, readers get to know the main character before he or she becomes a hero, when the character is just an ordinary person. Read this section from the beginning of Pepper & Carrot, and notice what it shows you about Pepper’s life and her personality.

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}