Summary Of Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth By Kevin Wilson

“Tunneling to the Center of the Earth” by Kevin Wilson is a story that took place in suburbia USA in the present time. Wilson describes three recent college graduates who, when presented with the boring and rather bleak prospect of entering the adult world, decide instead to turn their energy to digging a hole (Dempster). While Wilson’s story is quite modern his story is structured like the mythological Quest Cycle. The Quest Cycle is an ancient pattern used in mythology and storytelling that is well known and is the most frequently used patterns that is used all over the planet. The Quest Cycle consists of six specific stages in a sequential order and always involves some sort of transformation in the main character. Wilson’s story is structured on the ancient pattern called the Quest Cycle, his story correlates with the six stages of …show more content…
Vogler notes that “The Resurrection and Return with the Elixir” is one of the trickiest and most challenging passages for both the hero and author; this is where the climax of the story occurs, the hero must undergo a final purging and purification before going back to the Ordinary World (Vogler 203). As Vogler stated this is the point in the story where there needs to be another ordeal before the hero reenters the Ordinary World. Wilson’s story also has a point of “Resurrection and Return with the Elixir” where it started getting harder for them to continue on with their journey. Wilson expresses that it got colder, they were running out of food and their tools were broken; they came to the point where they decided whoever wanted to leave could leave (Wilson 102). This is the point where they encountered another ordeal which goes along with Vogler’s Quest Cycle because they came to a resolution that if they wanted to leave they could leave no questions