This conference paper asserts that there are four faces to the stories of people's lives: (1) a personal face; (2) a political face; (3) a historical face; and (4) a sacred face. The study explains how each of these faces interacts in society and is used to analyze and to teach multicultural literary works as archetypal stories from the perspective of the core drama of life, the story of transformation. By using excerpts from "The Color Purple"; "Like Water for Chocolate"; "Blood on the Forge"; "Siddhartha"; "Ceremony"; and "Bread Givers"; the paper examines the teaching and practicing of transformational politics. Students learn to reproduce in the larger world the reality of either being docile followers, dominators, violators of others, or mutual friends. Seeing these distinct options as having implications for democracy, the study advocates leading students to create a fundamentally new and loving society. (EH)