Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Dora Valencia-Gomez

Hero's Journey Essay

In this paper we would talk about the Hero's Journey of Phillip. Who ia the main character of the book "The Cay". I think he completed the Hero's Journeyand he went through all the stages, exept the first 3.

The separrtion wasn't his decition, he was pushed to ti . He didn;t get de callin either. I don't think a 12 year old boy would like to stay in a Cay, blind with someone he doesn't know . The threshhold that's something he didn't get , but I think anyone would stay. The Descent in my opinion started in moment he got in the litle boat . Because he didn't know what's going to happen.

The initiation starts when he meet Timothy. Timothy was tryin to help him survive . The best part of all is when he meets his mentor he goes blaind and now his depending on him, in my opinio that's the abyss. Timothy was his mentor, he try to help him. He took Phillip to a save place, and teach him things they would need to survive. The transformation was hard for Phillip, it took Timothy to slap him. He start seein things the way they are, and that they're going to need t0 pass through all of them together. I would slap Phillip earlier. But it seems that Timothy is a patient man.

Timothy dies after a storm. But he got time to teach Phillip a lot of stuff so he could survive with out him. After a few days or weeks Phillip was rescued. That's the return. The creation was that he wasn't raisist anymore, and tryed to make his mother tink his way, which was the good way .

I talked about Phillip and his Hero's Journey. He did completed the Hero's Journey, but he didn't get chance to choose. He was pushed trough all his adventure, and it changes his life and give him a good friend.

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