The Hero's Journey Essay

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Buck, a dog, went on a journey. The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is a set of steps in a narrative to complete a challenge. The hero, in this case Buck, went through countless challenges in his lifetime, and lost many, many owners. Buck had conquered the wilderness, but had lost his innocence along the way.
His first kill was troublesome, A horrible way to be the head of a pack. The cold hush winter of the Yukon terrain, had both Spitz and Buck crying out in pain. Buck’s innocence is failing, his life is on the line. Buck had barely even made it out alive. But Buck became a beast, and killed Spitz in a blood filled rage. Bucks leg closed on Spitz’s leg, the crunch of the bone snapping in half, the dog had faced him on only three
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This setting had affected Buck by stunting his performance, from being way too cold. “As he held on he became more and more conscious of the new stir in the land. There was life abroad in it different from the life which had been there throughout the summer.” Bucks life had changed since then because of the setting. The wilderness seemed to have a strong resentment for Buck. Countless deaths, and the complete loss of his conscience.
This experience affects Buck because it’s almost as if he forgot his old self, a dog owned by a judge who never had to worry, to the leader of a pack that is now a ferocious killing machine, “Ghost Dog,” is one to be feared.
This experience represents a ritual death. He lost his old name and is now called “Ghost Dog.” “But more remarkable than this the Yeehats tell of a Ghost
Dog that runs at the head of the pack. They are afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they, stealing from their camps in the fierce winters, robbing their traps, slaying their dogs, and defying their bravest hunters.” This experience is a physical challenge, because to become the brother wolf he had to kill a gigantic moose. Being forced to kill an animal three times your size and ten times your weight is terrifying. It makes it harder to kill after journeying the Alaskan Yukon for four days.
Buck’s worst loss is when He got called to the wild. He lost his

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