Thomas Anderson: The Hero

Bob Riley stated that "Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed". This quote goes hand in hand with the Matrix; it sums up Keanu Reeves's character, Thomas Anderson, beacuse it was only after a series of events that Thomas even decided to accept the fact that he was "The One". During Thomas's development of a hero, he went through a series of steps and many of them fell in line with the hero's journey. The movie started with Thomas in a ordinary world, and his life seemed extra-ordinary:he worked a desk job in an office as a computer programmer, and lived alone in an bland apartment. The only out of the ordinary thing in his life was at night he is a computer hacker that sells the contraband

It then tells him to "Follw the white rabbit", which does not turn out to be a literal rabbit, but instead a man with a white rabbit tattooed on his arm. Thomas chooses to follow, therefore accepting his first call to adventure, which leads to him meeting a girl, Trinity, who tells him that somebody is watching him, and that there is a man who can answer his search for the truth. His second call literally came in the form of a phone call while he is on his job ; a man tells him that "they" are coming for him, and directs him out of his office away from the men who are there for him, but when Thomas is outside of the window edge and drops his phone, he loses confidence and climbs back into his office building, which is a refusal to his call and ends up leading to his capture. After he is released, he recieves another phone call, and is told by Morpheus that he is "The One", and offers Neo the chance to meet with him, and Neo

When they first meet at the hotel he explains the Matrix in the best way that words can explain,then gives Neo a choice between a red pill and a blue pill, one pill will show him the truth, while the other will send him back to the world that he knows. Neo chooses the red pill, which leads to him crossing the threshold from the reality that he knows to the Matrix. He briefly meets the people who, both plugs him in so he can enter the Matrix, and the ones who enter with him and aid him throughout his journey, and next thing he knows he wakes up in a pod, naked, which is a form of him being reborn into the Matrix, which he finds out is the ultimate reality, and that the world that he has known his whole life is a virtual reality, but Neo is unwilling to accept the truth which is another refusal to his