I am currently reading the book 1984 by George Orwell.
I think that the call to adventure for Winston, the protagonist of 1984, is when he first met Julia. Although she doesn't send him on some quest to vanquish evil, she does bring him into a world that is new to him. Winston and Julia fell in love and decided to secretly try to be together. Winston's wife, Katharine had disappeared years before but wasn't confirmed dead by the Party (although it is very likely that she was). It would be against the Party's rules for him to be with any one else. Winston and Julia being together was very risky but Winston seems to have decided not to return to his ordinary world. In a way them being together was a way for them both to take a stand against the Party's rules. Both of them dislike the Party and believe that the world could and should be in a better state than it is, so my best guess is that later in the book they will end up joining some kind of resistance against the Party.
"Both of them knew-in a way, it was never out of their minds- that what was now happening could not last long." from George Orwell's 1984
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