The Journey Continues

tribulations on his journey home to Ithika, after his battle at Troy. However, Odysseus’ strong pride and boastful character provoke Poseidon, god of the sea, to not let him return home easily. During his absence, suitors raid his kingdom intending to marry his wife Penelope, and take Ithika for their own. Helping the hero, but also resisting lord Poseidon wishes, Athena, goddess of wisdom, attempts to bring the hero home. With disguise, Athena brings Telémakhos to venture off on his own journey to find his

unusual world of adventure (not the “real world”). His journey involves assistance from many which helps him cross the threshold into the imaginative world. Stage two continues with the hero successfully meeting and defeating several challenges and roadblocks in his way. The last Monomyth stage contributes to the hero completing his journey successfully and finding his way back to the mundane world. This paper will demonstrate and define Dante’s journey to adventure, crisis, and victory using the three

achieve through the course of the book. In the beginning of the book, Buck must learn how to survive and win to start his journey. First, buck has to survive from a man in the red sweater. For an example, the man in the red sweater hits buck with a club. Buck soon realizes he will die if he doesn't do what his master says. Buck learns the “law of the club”; he has survived on his journey. Secondly, Buck learns safety from Curly's death. For example, Buck watches Curly’s Death after she was badly injured

Frodo's willingness to face even greater dangers clearly demonstrates that his courage continues to grow. Frodo once again shows his constant growth of courage during the journey through the Mines of Moria. When the Fellowship is venturing in the Mines of Moria, they run into a large group of orcs. As one of the orcs tries to break into the room that the Fellowship is trapped in

the novel The Alchemist, written by Paulo Coelho, the author reveals the character through his journey to find his destiny in the deserts of Egypt. Santiago, the main character, is a shepherd herder that leaves what he knows to achieve his dreams and find his purpose. Santiago then finds that his journey to find himself is dangerous and longer than he expected. Santiago, a very curious man, continues to ask about his heart in the beginning of this passage. His questions are detailed through the

purpose of the awakening is the journey in which Edna embarks on in order to achieve her goal. Edna’s goal throughout the awakening is to be set free from the various social norms that are preventing her from being herself and to gain her long sought after freedom. There are many social norms that she fights against such as the expectations of being a mother and the life of marriage that she must maintain. Edna’s journey to obtain freedom starts with her journey to the water. In Chapter ten of

The famous poet Mary Oliver once wrote in her poem “The Journey”, “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began”. Oliver’s belief is seen in classic and modern literature about journeys. Many people and characters have experienced very difficult journeys in their life. “The Cruelest Journey”, a travel biography by Kira Salak, depicts her six-hundred-mile journey on the Niger River to be the first person in the world to kayak the journey alone. She travels through the most dangerous and bleak

Can you imagine you and a turtle having similar characteristics? In the Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck uses a turtle to foreshadow future events and problems that the Joad family will come to face. The turtle exemplifies fear, determination, and overcoming a situation. The turtle also forebodes the theme of hope and determination. The drivers’ reactions not only help predict the outcome of future events, but also help establish a theme in accordance with what the turtle exemplifies. A forty-year-old

Phoenix Jackson, the main character has a mission in which she is trying to complete when she is faced with many challenges. This short story is centered on the challenges that are faced by an elderly African-American grandmother as she continues on her long journey from the secluded pinewoods into the town nearby of Natchez. She has one intention in mind when she begins, to get a medicine for her chronically ill grandson no matter what the challenges are that she encounters. The one way to convey

David Ferry, illustrates a story about a man who knows everything, but continues to try and learn more. Although Gilgamesh may be arrogant, he still remains a great ruler and commander of Uruk. Throughout the book, the adventures of Gilgamesh fit Joseph Campbell’s idea of the hero’s journey. After analyzing the pieces to the hero’s journey, Gilgamesh is proven to be a true hero because his journey parallels that of the hero’s journey described by Campbell. The latter part of this paper will prove Gilgamesh