The Rites of Passage - A person knows they have reached a new stage in life and seeks to find what must be done to complete the transition. They pretend that they already know, then meet a challenge that shows they do not, yet also provides the route by which they achieve the full transition.
The Wanderer - A person arrives somewhere new and finds a problem there. In facing the problem they show why they left the last place. They then seek to move on, repeating the pattern.
These are the two story types that most work with the story I have written of Wally's Peaks. The story features Wally (from Where's Wally fame) going on a journey to try and find himself, in which he travels to a mountain, ends up in prison and fights a crime syndicate. As you might expect, it's a comedic drama story makes jokes throughout, as opposed to being serious, and this is fairly unusual for these story types. A lot of them in these types are serious, with "The Wanderer" consisting primarily of serious drama stories, including films such as 'The Book of Eli', for example, which is about [spoilers] a blind man who wanders from place to place trying to deliver a brail bible to the start of a new civilisation in a post-apocalyptic world [end spoilers]. This is a serious film and is very different to what my idea consists of, while "The Rites of Passage" may contain stories such as 'Stand By Me' which, while more light-hearted than my previous example, is definitely not a comedy film, which makes Wally's Peaks more unique and interesting amongst other stories. This is not to say it hasn't been done, however, I feel that it is a very uncommon way of telling a story to have a comedic story fit either one of these story types, and to have Wally's Peaks fit in these stories like that, it makes for a more unusual kind of story.
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