Arjay Cordero

This paper will be about the Hero's Journey which is about Phillip Enright of the book "The Cay". Phillip Enright is a kid from Willemstad that encountered hardship in a lonely cay with a black man named Timothy. Timothy is Phillip's mentor in the book "The Cay" that was with Phillip when they were in the cay but died because of a storm that hit their cay. Phillip's dad work at the refinery and is the specialist at refining oil. Phillip's mom doesn't have a job and she doesn't like Willemstad because of the smell of oil and native people. Phillip did complete the Hero's Journey because he was able to change to be an independent person because of his mentor Timothy.

The separation started when the war started and they had to leave Willemstad to go to Norfolk, Virginia. His mom wanted to go to Virginia because they are originally from Virginia. The calling was the war, it's because Phillip had no choice but to leave Willemstad to go to Norfolk, Virginia. The threshold in the story was Phillip's mom and dad had the conversation about whether they will leave or not. The descent was when Phillip's mom and dad decided that Phillip and his mom will leave to Norfolk, Virginia, and so they boarded the boat going to America.

There was really no initiation but he did find a mentor though he didn't do any heroic deed. For the abyss, it's when they were on the boat on Caribbean sea. The other abyss is when Phillip and Timothy were aboard the raft on the Caribbean alone. Finally, the last abyss is when they drifted to an unknown island. His mentor is Timothy and on of the things that he did to wake Phillip is he slapped him when he won't work. The other one is when he protected Phillip from the storm. The transformation after Timothy slapped him was Phillip's attitude started to change. Also Phillip helped Timothy when he was sick with malaria. The last transformation was the death of Timothy, this had a huge impact to Phillip because he will have to use the surviving skills and surviving kits that Timothy made him so he could survive in the cay.

The return is when a boat came and rescue Phillip and took him back to Willemstad. One of the creation is that Phillip's family doesn't have to move from Willemstad to Virginia. Also that Phillip doesn't feel uncomfortable talking to native people. Phillip is even talking about Timothy with other native people and some of them knew Timothy of Charlotte Amalie. The last creation is that he will find the cay that he and Timothy got stranded and put the devil's mouth in the map so that everyone would know it existed and where Timothy of Charlotte Amalie died.

I talked about Phillip Enright from the book "The Cay" and his Hero's Journey. I talked about why they had to leave Willemstad. Also how he found his mentor through a war. I also talked about how he got rescued and what happened after. Phillip did complete a Hero's Journey because he was able to change to someone independent. he was able to live alone even though he was blind in a lonely cay thanks to Timothy's survival items he made for him. He completed a Hero's Journey because of the death of his mentor, Timothy of Charlotte Amalie.