Road Of Trials In Into The Wild, And Richard Cory

The road of trials is seen in The Stranger, Into the Wild, and “Richard Cory”. In “Richard Cory” the road of trials is seen when Richard walks through the street saying good-morning because he is facing people to see if he really wants to give up on society and die instead. Into the Wild depicts Christopher’s journey and his trials are said to be when he must hitchhike his whole way to Alaska. The Stranger has a literal road of trials when he is placed in jail and Meursault must go through trials to prove guilty.

Meursault, Christopher McCandless, and Cory all meet with the goddess, which is the 7th stage in the 17-stages of monomyth. Meursault’s meeting with the goddess would be when he goes to his mother’s funeral. Although he decides not to see her body, he meets with her in spirit and it allows him to soften up to Marie. McCandless meets with the goddess when his sister is born because she is the only person he gets along with and she allows him to have someone to rely on and have as a companion. Mr.Cory meets with the goddess when he walks through the streets because on one of his walks when he said, “good-morning” a homeless lady could have said it back and made him for at least one second feel like a friend was speaking to him. …show more content…
Richard Cory meets temptation when he grabs the gun, just like when Batman is in temptation of either killing the villains or keeping them alive until the police comes. Meursault meets temptation when he has the option of killing the Arab or walking away from the scenario. Christopher has a temptation to either go back home once he cannot find a ride to keep traveling west or to just keep walking on the road until he got lucky, if he ever