The Hero's Journey In The Grapes Of Wrath By Joseph Campbell

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Road of trials
After crossing the first threshold overcoming the belly of the whale, the hero go through the first stage in the ignition who is the road of trials . He go through many trials that he have to defeat in order to achieve a specific task . All through these tasks the hero gain power and knowledge . in addition the road of trials can be seen as an entry to a new world where the hero becomes more mature as mentioned by Campbell “Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials” (Campbell, 1949, p.89) .
For my hero , oprah winfrey , she passes the road of trial as she changed various time her occupation and location of living
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It can be an internal or an external force that drives the hero away of his goal. Moreover , this temptation do not have to be a feaml figure as ther is female heros and in these cases the temptation can accur from a man . However , campbell in his book shows that the hero should not follow these temptation and have to continue his journey . The temptation that distract oprah for fullifing her dream was foo . She had an addictitio to food and cant control herself . As a host to one of the most knonw tv show in american she has to take care of her body and her apperence but she was never able to maintine a healthy look for a long time as she lost weight before but gain it again .For oprah her” drug of choice is food. she uses food for the same reasons an addict uses drugs: to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress.” (Hartman, …show more content…
the ultimate boon is whe the hero reaches his ultimate goal , when he finds his treasure after going trought some much . After passing all these stages and working hard so hard , the objective of the journey is finally acoplished . This stages is seen as a git for the hero , it is the opeak of his adventure . yet , once the hero gets his gift he must return to his orniary world as stated by cambpell “It is time for me now to leave this place.” (Campbell, 1949, p.159). For y hero the ultimate boon , her gift was her show .Oprah worked so hard in order to gain the place I which she is right now . The oprah show had a huge success , it was aired nationally for 25 seasons form 1986-2011. She interviewed many celebrities and knonw people . for example on February 10,1993 winfrey set down with mikckeal Jackson for what would become the most-watched interview in television history . Morevoer , Oprah had a dream of becoming a actress and she accomplished also this dream by opening a producer house and acting n 6 differtentt movie

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