Cesar Chavez A Modern Day Hero

Cesar Chavez has influenced the people in west by enhancing their workplace conditions. In literature, a hero is defined as a person or being who has completed Campbell’s Heroic Cycle. The Heroic Cycle is the guideline to most epics or hero based stories. It includes 12 different stages each having their own symbolic importance to the overall storyline. Cesar Chavez would be considered a modern day hero because of his contributions to the working conditions of the Latin and Mexican American population in the southwest. "Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927, on a small farm near Yuma, Arizona."(Project). Being one of five children, he was raised in poverty. After the farm that they had grew up on was sold back to the agent when he was ten so he and his family were forced to join the many other migrant workers in California during the Great Depression. This is was Chavez’s Ordinary World. The Ordinary World is the first of the twelve elements in The Heroic Cycle that describes the uncomfortable situation and the background of the hero. It also introduces a stress factor in the hero’s life. …show more content…
He then sought out training as an organizer with a thought in mind. That thought was to change how Mexican and Latin Americans/natives were to be treated in the workplace. The CSO, Community Services Organization in California offered him the training. “Chávez spent the next ten years building CSO chapters, leading voter registration drives, and aiding dispossessed Mexicans and Mexican Americans on issues of immigration, welfare, and police abuse.”(Gale). Crossing the Threshold is another element of Campbell’s Heroic Cycle. It describes the hero’s transition between the Ordinary World and the Special