“Journeys can be motivated by the desire to change our circumstances.” Journeys are taken because they are needed or desired. Sean Penn’s ‘Into The Wild’ and Ivan Lalic’s ‘Of Eurydice’ both start with this motivation and are physical journeys of discovery. However, journeys are often not about where they take place as the location has no value, but in order to move forward the journey is about the spiritual meaning. Serrini’s poem ‘A Dream’ the film ‘Into The Wild’, demonstrate that journeys many not be about the destination, but about the search for spiritual meaning. In both situations, something is to be gained either physically, spiritually or metaphorically to change or move on from our present circumstance.
Thus, all heroes on a journey encounter dangers that they must overcome. The hero must leave the safety zone of the known world and enter into the danger zone. It is here that he faces many of his fears and challenges. This is analogous to parents cutting the apron strings, so the child may enter the unknown world on his own and face challenges in life in order to gain maturity. After the hero has completed his challenge, he returns to the known world and brings a valuable lesson.
In Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, Faulkner tells the story of a young boy named Colonel Sartoris Snopes who was driven against his own dogmatic loyalty that his father, Abner Snopes, instilled in him by an innate sense of justice. In the closing passage Faulkner provides a resolution for the story, though he leaves the story of Sarty only partially resolved as he has overcome his father by his actions but not entirely as the sense of loyalty that he feels towards Abner as a result of his family ties being all he knows. He is now left alone on the crest of a hill, facing the dark ominous forest, with his back turned to glare of his home he knows he must move forward. Faulkner depicts Sarty in a state of transition, caught between the injustices of his past that have dominated his entire life and reconciling these injustices with an uncertain a future that he must face alone. Faulkner employs spatial imagery within the setting to illustrate the different stages in personal development Sarty must undergo.
Once the men find Private Ryan, they are forced to help defend the bridge which Ryan has been left to "babysit" in Remmel. During the successful defense of the bridge, Captain Miller is killed. Miller's dying words to Ryan are "earn this". Hollywood's version of this particular aspect of the story is absolutely fiction. There are of course some historical inaccuracies which are in my opinion not harming our understanding of past events and historical figures.
The stories both center on the journey, and the way a person goes from one phase of life to another. The stories show that it does not matter the direction a person’s life may take them; they will meet setbacks that can discourage their pursuit for a better life. A person needs to possess a strong and firm will to build motivation toward the journey of life. The theme in both of these
Decisions now affect the future Life is full of decisions waiting to be made. Whether that decision is choosing what to eat for breakfast or deciding what the daily activity should be, it will affect an individual’s life in one way or another. The poem, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost tells a story of a man who reaches a fork in the road and must choose which path to take, each path different from the other. In this poem, Robert Frost contends that every decision that one makes, no matter how insignificant it may seem, will have an impact on that person’s life. Robert Frost uses a walk in the woods as a metaphor for making a decision in life, a situation that people face daily.
While in his hometown Guigemar is a great knight , the best of the best, but he is seen as the young man who has not entered manhood. Guigemar’s journey to manhood is in a liminal state, and is enhanced by his killing of the deer and learning that he must find a true love to become a man. Guigemar has to be “cured by a women who will suffer for your love more pain and anguish than any other women has known” (Page 44). The forest represents the in between, a part of the journey that Guigemar must go on in order to mature and move from his liminal state in life. The woods represents nature and how it is wild and untamed not bound by any laws of the ruling class.
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech is a novel which has plenty of themes like time never stops or nature has bond with human life.But the most important of these themes is that people mustn’t judge a man until they’ve walked two moons in their moccasins, until they be them for a long time. And this is entirely about empathizing. Walking in someone else’s moccasins is important in Walk Two Moons because book wants to teach us that empathizing shows the truth. The reasons for this are people mustn’t be biased, because everyone doesn’t seem like who they really are. And empathizing helps us to notice things that we couldn’t realize before.
The Fellowship of the Ring Friendship Essay In The Fellowship of the Ring Friendship is an important aspect of the journey. The Hero needs to have someone he can trust to be there for him. The Hero, Frodo, can not make the journey on his own so he needs to have a helping hand. Frodo is going to a quest to get the ring away from The Shire. Sam is Frodo’s best friend that started with him on the journey.
They both describe how one goes through life learning from life’s struggles. Paulo Coelho says in The Alchemist “We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property, but this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world are written in the same hand” (Coelho 76). What Paulo is talking about, is that we are afraid of loss. One does not want to lose their belongings, but once one understands that one’s life needed to lose those things in order to become who they are in life. In comparison Gary Allan sings “Life ain’t always beautiful some days I miss your smile I get tired of walking all these lonely miles” (Gary Allan).