Maritza Elizabeth Benitez Flores

The hero's journey is based on three stages the seperation, the initiation, and the return. The seperation has three different events which are the calling, the threshold, and the descent. The initiation contains three events as well. The abyss, the mentor, and the transformation. The return the last stage of the heros journey only contains one event, which is the creation. My eassy is going to be about Phillip Enright and how he fits into the hero's journey. Which in my opinion Phillip is a great example to explain the hero's journey.
In the seperation Phillip's calling is the war. It is the world war 2 takes place in Willenstad on February 1942. The threshold that Phillip has to go through is mom and dad's discussion of leaving the island the mom wants to go because she is scared of the war. Phillips descent was the book sailing away to sea. In my opinion all of those are good examples to let the reader understand the hero's journey better.
In the initiation which as well has three events. The first event is the abyss, which is also known as the unknown. In this case it is the cay the unknown island. The mentor is Timothy which helps Phillips to be independent and teaches him teachnics to survival. The transformation which is the change is Timothy slapping Phillip and making Phillips attitude change towards him.Those all match up to thier topics that fit into the hero's journey.
The return only has one event which is the creation. In this event and stage Phillip gets saved by the lifegaurd from the army. But in between the hurican Timothy doesnt make it and dies. After Phillip gets rescued he meets up with his parents. Then his parents take him back to the U.S. and while he is over there he gets opperated so he can see again because he was blind.
In my paper I talked about Phillip and his journey to the cay and how all the events that happened match up to the hero's journey. He had something that fit in all the events from the calling, to the abyss, to the creation he had everything. Thats how a heros journey should be with a charecters Seperation, to his or her initiation, and to the return. Thats how a hero's journey should work.