The Journey Continues

Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist, is developed as a hero’s journey through the realizations from Santiago’s life experiences that propel him on his journey/quest. The novel is about a boy named, Santiago, who is a shepherd and has a strong desire to go on a journey to carry out his personal legend, sending him on a quest to Egypt to find treasure. Santiago meets an old man who claims to be the king of a place called Salem. Still finding him hard to believe, Santiago gives the old man a chance

of the Birds and Dante Alighieri’s Inferno was to motivate and inspire the specific demographic within their audiences who already believed in and practiced the texts’ respective denominations to continue on with their spiritual journeys. This is demonstrated by the main protagonists’ spiritual journeys, the consequences of sin they both experience and witness, as well as how they relate to the audience. This topic is significant due to the fact that the two texts analyzed are examples of religious

Seeing a character's life as a journey in search of truth or meaning may help us to understand a central theme of the work. By studying Dunstan Ramsay's journey towards happiness in Fifth Business, it can be said that guilt must be managed, and not forgotten. Dunstan is motivated by guilt towards happiness during his interactions with Mrs. Dempster, during the First World War, and by the various romantic interests in his life. Davies writes the story of Ramsay's journey in a way that emphasizes the

traumatic experiences and are driven to continue on their journeys by the totem they carry with them. The main character, Abdul, exhibits very close connections to the items he carries with him whether they be physical or emotional totems. These totems all lead back to the family and close friend, he has lost which give them added meaning and importance. These experiences represented through his three main totems are what inspires him to continue onwards on his journey with hope and determination. Abdul

on a journey and for good or bad, humanity continues to move ahead. Along the journey come changes, another important idea in the novel. Journey is the main idea in the beginning of the novel when Tom Joad first gets out of prison and is looking for a ride home. Walking home he sees a turtle. Lying on the highway, having been missed by a car, but hit by a truck, the turtle still struggles to continue his own journey towards the southwest. Therefore, from the beginning of the novel, two journeys are

destination after one's journey is a great achievement, many tend to overlook the amazing things one passes while on their journey. Robert Frost shows the beauty of the extraordinary things they pass in his poem, “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” In the poem, the speaker is traveling in the woods on a dark snowy night. He soon comes to a stop to take in the nature around him. The speaker is so enthralled by the falling snow, that he forgets that he must continue on his journey. By using visual imagery

each writer’s work, the atonement with the father occurs through the hero or heroine meeting the power that controls them, the power that motivates them to complete their journey. The hero or heroine must confront and defeat the power that controls him or her in order to procure wisdom that allows them to complete their journey. In William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” the atonement with the father occurs when the aging man finally talks to the sages on the mosaic wall, confronting the ultimate

In a cruel and unforgiving world that man “needs to believe that he is on a divine mission” (Wielenberg 3). His mission is to continue to take care of the boy and to continue their journey on the road. At one point he even tells the boy, “My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by god” (McCarthy 77). He turns to God, when struggling to explain to the boy the hardships they face, “great

claiming their kleos (glory). Homer uses this as his main theme in his epic poem the Odyssey, as it shows the main character Odysseus yearning to return home to Ithaca after twenty years of being away. The poem portrays Odysseus’ journey home, however, during his journey he is constantly driven off course. After ten years, with the help of his main protector, the goddess Athena, Odysseus finally makes it back home to Ithaca where he reclaims his identity. Later in 19BC, Vergil who was a roman poet

the path home. While on their separate journeys, they both face insurmountable odds and obstacles. Odysseus and Slav have to carry on with their treks even when their comrades fall into the hands of death. They must rely heavily upon their wits, but they also accept the kindness others they meet along the way. These men keep moving to stay alive and to return home to their families. To escape injustice, Odysseus and Slavomir embark on treacherous journeys during which their friends die, and they