With the passing of crisis in a story comes celebration, perhaps a love scene. Survival or resurrection from death provides the central character a wider scope of consciousness.
Personal concerns no longer drive the protagonist. Those of the community dominate her or his thoughts and actions instead. Agape love now influences their choices and behavior.
Personal suffering has yielded a greater respect and understanding of those aches and pains that affect, and beset the collective. From this emerges empathy guided by the wish to heal.
A change of heart, the ultimate transformation takes place. This establishes connection to the Imago Dei, god center or divinity within. The raindrop merges with the waters of the ocean.
Personal awareness lives side-by-side with consciousness of the collective, the two influencing and informing, shaping and modifying the other.
This combination sets the stage for a greater transformation that takes place later with climax, which can be termed an evolution of sorts, or perhaps the open and manifesting action that evidences the initial and primary change garnered through crisis and survival of that challenge.
During this phase of the story the protagonist lays claim to that for which she or he has been searching, fighting, desiring, or struggling to reach.
Attaching a physical object to this achievement allows the reader a greater point of identification with the central character.
This physical object then becomes a Holy Grail of sorts, making real the crisis that has been survived.
If the point of crisis, or greatest challenge is the Eucharist, a celebration of the Crucifixion, the moment of prayer following the eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine–the moment of transubstantiation–sets the stage for climax.
Here we reach a point in the story where the Mass has ended. The protagonist, though wary, must now go and declare, through thought, word and deed, the good news of her or his survival.
They have waged the battle and won.
They now carry the Holy Grail full of the elixir, the medium, or medicine that will now heal the community.
The symbol or physical object she or he now possesses operates now as a talisman. It both proves she or he has fought and won the first and primary campaign of the war.
As such it makes the protagonist agent of both change and healing for the community or family that she or he serves.