The call to adventure. A tragedy. Or a challenge. The hero’s journey starts when he or she encounters a problem created to defeat the hero. The hero must pick themselves up and answer the call. Chris McCandless answers the call many times from spending his nights offering advice to prostitutes and pimps, feeding the needy, and even planning to spend his summer in a foreign country to help a rebel cause. He truly answers the call when he graduates college and donates twenty five-thousand dollars to charity. He answers his call this late because he had promised Billie, his mother that he would go to college. Dirt poor, with no job, no money, or guidance; he starts his journey from square one, zero, nothing, and sets out on his journey looking for the Holy Grail. Freedom. Winston, from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, is compelled to answer the call when he buys the journal and secretly…show more content… To write means to think and to think means to oppose Big Brother, as Winston begins to write he becomes a thought Criminal. He is a dead man, and he accepted his call to revolt in search for redemption, freedom and acceptance. Shooting an Elephant, one of Orwell’s shorter pieces, showcases a reflection of himself through a Burmese Police Officer. An elephant escapes and causes mass destruction. The police officer answers to this problem. But the elephant does not pose a problem, the people around the officer do. Both the people and the elephant create the call to adventure, the officer either pulls the trigger killing the elephant or lets the creature live and pillage. The answer to this call leads to acceptance or the waste land of further alienation, maybe even death. The call arrives in all forms of circumstances but all prompt
