%A NIM. 13150012 OVIUSTI LU’LU’ QURRATU’AYNY MAPPUJI %O Ulyati Retno Sari, SS, M.Hum %T THE STAGES OF MIA THERMOPOLIS IN THE PRINCESS DIARIES NOVEL: HERO’S JOURNEY %X Hero is a person who succeeds in fulfilling himself. The hero does the adventure from the world he already knows. He normally meets to an unknown world, and then he will find extraordinary powers. He must be able to face the obstacles in order to win. When he wins, the hero returns to bestow it on his fellow humans. Mia Thermopolis is an ordinary girl who does not have the courage to confront and then finds out that she is a princess of Genovia because her father, the Prince of Genovia who suffers from a cancer cannot have any children anymore. Initially, Mia refuses to be a princess but at the instigation of her father she finally wants to be the heir to the kingdom. On the way Mia has to do some lessons to be a princess with her grandmother. She also has to change her appearance to be more feminine, graceful and fashionable. During her new identity, she must be hostile to her best friend, Lilly Moscovitz. Since she does not tell her what is happening to her, Lilly gets angry. After her identity is revealed, a famous boy in his school named Josh Richter approaches Mia to use her to gain more popularity. However, Mia finally dares to vent her anger at Josh when everything is revealed. This study used Joseph Campbell's Hero’s Journey theory with a qualitative method. The results of the analysis show that there are 2 stages of the Hero’s Journey that Mia passes, the first and the second stages: departure and initiation. %K Hero’s Journey, Hero, Mia Thermopolis %D 2019 %I UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA YOGYAKARTA %L digilib33872