Creative Writing: The Hero's Journey

The forest had gone.... and the Witch looked much younger. Audette opened her eyes and had found herself upon a brow of white lilies. The shape of the shrouded old woman seemed changed. Having turned around, and opened her mantle to the tearing gusts, Meliza revealed to the young lady two streams of shinging blackness and smooth white flesh. Audette stopped in her tracks.

And sometime the snow would be lift clean from the ground and up into the air, and by and by it would be all clapped to the ground as though there had been no wind at all, straightaway it would rise and fly again.

The boy took comfort in believing that if the snowman were rescued by bringing the snowman in the house, the snowman would be saved. The snowman believed that by staying outside, no harm would come to him and he was not alone or afraid of the incoming weather, because he had nothing to fear of living outside alone and in the dark. The boy and the snowman lived two diverse lives, one that could never be meshed together because of the scientific fact that one character lived a cold life and the other character lived a life in which there was warmth.

“Sorry Finch, but Mouse and I are preparing for the winter by gathering food.” Finch pouted playfully at his

His first obstacle is the tremendous cold. Although his canine companion is covered in fur, the man is not, and he is forced to build the first fire. After preparing the wood, lighting the match, and warming his body, the man is slowed down considerably by the fire. His fingers and toes are numb and to make matters worse, the man falls into a frozen pool of water. Knowing that “one can’t go very far when his feet are wet,” made the man build another fire.

After getting socked by the freezing water and losing the only source of warmth he had, he was beginning to lose is cool. “It was as though he had just heard his own sentence of death” (London 524). Once the fire was diminished by the snow the man then knew he had to take action. This is where his survival instincts kick in and now has to see what he must do in order to survive. If he would have packed more than just food his situation might have been different.

The man learns his lesson the hard way.The man encountered many internal warnings that it was too cold to be outside. First, his nose and cheeks went numb. His face, feet, and hands followed. His beard and mustache grew icy from his breath.

The novel opens with Snowman, the story's protagonist, going about his daily routine, which involves scavenging for food and hearing unfamiliar voices in his head. He also frequently interacts with the Crakers; together, they form a

“He is just one of my teacher’s sons.” Richemonde said as she shoved food in to her mouth.

Aster slams through the door, falling to the hard, wooden, and cold surface of the front porch. Alex lifts him up, not taking his eyes off of their surroundings. Where there was supposed to be a soft snowing land was replaced with a cold white nothingness. Everything was like a

“Who wants to try some of my hot chocolate?” asked Master Cake, walking towards Danny, who was building a snowman in the middle of the yard.

Carol lowered her head in shame and pushed her sunglasses higher up on her nose, hiding the bruises around her eyes. She shivered as the wind whipped around her and pulled her threadbare sweater closer around her battered body, wincing as the movement pulled at her aching ribs. There was nothing

What he saw shocked him in this snowy day. There lay a girl soaked in her own blood. The snow around her turned into a shade of pink and she seemed to be at the verge of dying. Kubinashi immediately carried her bridal style and ran inside screaming.

Snow was falling again, and John had to get to the grocery store quickly. Trying to cover his face, he walked at a steadfast pace, while simultaneously trying to cover up all of his body in hopes that nothing but garments are burned.

After they thawed he ate and drank as if he had not eaten in days. But he would need the energy for tomorrow. He dug a hole in the snow next to the fire and slept, it was not warm, but it would do, he knew that he would be warmer under the snow than not, because snow acts as an insulator.