Fifth Business Essay

Paul's has just moved to Gate a prestigious school at which his mother works at. Coming out of a troubling divorce his mother packs up pal and moves. A few weeks after he moved to town he started becoming friends with Charlie. People's differing views towards Charlie leaves Paul at a stuck point with many people in his life. For example Binky, Paul's best friend for a while took him in, hung out with him, and made him feel like a friend.

1-3. The main idea of Chapter 1 Every Trip Is a Quest (Except When It’s Not) (pp.1-6) can be concluded in the following sentence: every story is a quest that consists of a person that has a reason to go to a certain place with challenges on one’s way which then leads the particular person (usually the main hero of a story) to the actual, or real, reason associated with self-knowledge, because the quest is always educational.

In stories, there is always a pattern that they all have in common. This certain pattern is known as the Hero’s Journey. There are varying descriptions of the Hero’s Journey steps but only the steps that are set by the teacher is used. These steps are the “The Call”, “Allies”, “Preparation”, “The Guardians of the Threshold”, “Crossing the Threshold”, “Road of Trials”, “Saving Experience”, “Transformation”, and ”Sharing the Gift”.This essay is explaining what the Hero’s Journey is in the book Whirligig by Paul Fleischman. The step that is coming up is the Call which is when the hero starts their journey.

“It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else had recognized and defined” (Davies 113). He believes that he is in control of every situation, but inside he cannot control his guilt that is still buried deep inside himself. Contrary to Dunstan who feels responsible for problems, Boy runs away from his problems by keeping himself busy. The death of Leola, his wife, clearly shows Boy’s fear of facing problems, for his does not show up for her funeral, “Boy was in England, arranging something or other connected with his Ministry, and duty and the difficulty of transatlantic flights in wartime kept him there”(Davies 194). Boy still yearns for fulfillment even though he achieves greatness in terms of his financial success and his outward appearance. He says, “I feel rotten. I’ve done just about everything I’ve ever planned to do and everybody thinks I’m a success… But sometimes I wish I could get into a car and drive away from the whole damned thing.” (Davies). Boy knows that deep inside he is very unsuccessful. As he gets older, he is supposed to be wiser, but his commitment to achieving the external greatness has stopped him from being fully satisfied. There is an immense difference in the lives of Boy and Dunstan. Boy’s focus on his external being causes him live an unfulfilled life, like a ‘boy’ who cannot see that there is

The Hero’s Journey is a fundamental model by which most significant stories follow. However, the focus is actually on the emotional journey the characters go through, how they change as a person, and their psychological development. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a great example of one of these stories, where the author makes excellent use of this template in order to further develop the emotional depth of the protagonist: Guy Montag. He starts in the ordinary world, content with his life and unaware of the trials to come, but he soon crosses the threshold and is disturbed by what he finds. By the end of the book, Montag has a revelation and is transformed into a man with greater wisdom. Throughout The Hero’s Journey, Montag will adapt and grow, and by the conclusion, he will be a different person entirely, changed by his experiences.

Paul chooses to leave his family because he feels he is guilty for causing his mother to become insane. Dunstan sees Paul at the circus. “I had last seen Paul in 1915, when he was seven; fourteen years later many men would have been unrecognizably changed from child to man… After all, he had been my pupil in the art of manipulating cards and coins, and I had watched him very closely as he demonstrated his superiority to my clumsy self” (Davies 145). Paul leaves the circus because he feels he is responsible for his mother’s insanity. Paul joins the circus because he needs a job so he can live without anyone watching over him. Paul joins the circus because he can be magician because he has the skills of working with cards that he learned from Dunstan. Dunstan would keep him company because Paul had no friends. Dunstan recognizes Paul at the circus. This foreshadows that Dunstan might join the circus and run the magic show with Paul. Also up until yet Dunstan is still trying to take care of the Dempsters, he is still in the process of redeeming his guilt. Paul changes his name to try and change his identity to get rid of the guilt that he still has. “Eisengrim now introduced himself to us. He spoke in elegant Spanish, and it was clear at once that he did not present himself as a funny-man… I

As Dunstan grew old, he re-established the inner characteristics of his youth, revisited the possibility of becoming someone’s laddie, and dedicated his life to the wellbeing of childhood friend.

She heard none of this.”(P. 52). Paul sees how Erik really acts when his parents aren’t around. He sees that Erik is like a scam-artist who lies about what they do to get people to like them or think greatly of them. In this quote, Paul sees how Luis tries to defend Tino after the incident with Erik and what happens afterwards: “Arthur reached Luis, turned, and whipped the blackjack with a loud whack against the side of Luis’s head. Luis’s arms shot up to cover his head as he staggered to the right and fell on one knee… ‘Arthur takes care of all my light work.’ Erik and the rest of them caught up with Arthur at the gate.”(P. 211-212). Erik and Paul’s parents think that Arthur is a

This is the beginning of a second expedition in the story. In the hero’s journey, it goes from the ultimate boon, which is Enkidu’s death, to refusal of return. This leaves out the key factor that sparks the last journey of the story which is the call to adventure. Furthermore, the call to adventure needs to be placed after the ultimate boon because that event is the reason why Gilgamesh receives another call to adventure. Moreover, we see how these two key events that occur in The Epic of Gilgamesh must be added to the hero’s journey in order for it to completely fit Gilgamesh’s journey.

As Paul grew up, he learns about his mother, Mrs. Dempster's demise. He was told that his birth caused his mother's illness, therefore causing him to blame himself and feel guilty. His guilt rose as the residents of their town kept their distance from Paul. Paul Dempster does accept his guilt much like Dunstable Ramsay, but instead of trying to resolve it, he repressed the

The concept of a magical guide or supernatural aid informs the audience of unworldly guidance that follows after the acceptance of “The Call to Adventure”. The texts “A Once and Future King” and “Le Morte d’ Arthur” both exemplify an entity, Merlyn, that invades the life of a hero, Arthur, as an aid in order to guide him to victory regarding his journey and adventure. Heroes are often began on their trip by a character who has aced the laws of the outside

It was his anger about Luis’ death that enabled Paul to make this confession. When the cops came to arrest Arthur for being linked to the death of Luis, “[Paul] stood up straight and faced them all, like [he] had seen Luis do. ‘I saw-I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it’”(276). The guilt inside Paul over Luis’ death quickly turned into anger when Arthur’s father tried to convince the cops that Arthur was innocent. Paul gained this courage because of the presence of the many adults and officers who were around, making sure that Erik could not get revenge on Paul. The book implied that Erik was going to jail when the officer said “You keep this young man in the house-not in the neighborhood, not in the yard-in the house. I may call or come back at any time and I expect him to be here”(276). When Paul confessed, he changed his entire life, because his parents would no longer act as if Erik were the standard that Paul had to meet. This also helped Paul prove to his parents that Erik was a terrible person deep down and not destined for greatness the way his parents thought. Paul was brave for standing up to Erik in front of his family and the police. Most importantly, Paul exposed Erik for what he really was-a cold-hearted person who didn’t deserve all the attention that he received for being a great football

Luis, Tino, and Luis are all the people Paul hangs out with. While the crew is at his house, Tino taunts Erik and Erik retaliates on Tino causing him to bleed. A few days later, Luis was fed up of Erik’s shenanigans and went up to the school to teach Erik a lesson, but things didn’t go as planned for Luis. Erik called up his goon, Arthur, because he was too much of a coward to fight himself. Arthur pulls out a murder weapon, and strikes Luis in the head.

Most journeys taken on by heroes consist of 12 stages that lead them to what they’re searching for. The first stage is exploring the ordinary world. The first stage consists of meeting the character and clarify the journey before they take the challenge on. Every journey involves a journey that disrupts the ordinary world. Learning about the ordinary world helps the reader understand the journey and the new world the hero will have to explore. The next stage is learning about the call to adventure. The call to adventure disrupts the ordinary world by presenting a challenge or quest that was be undertaken. The call shows what will happen to the ordinary world if the challenge is not accepted. Most of the heroes have to choose between two calls

In Fifth Business, the main problem that causes guilt for the two major characters is the snowball incident which results in Mary Dempster’s insanity. However, Paul’s guilt comes from a different cause: he feels guilty because he runs away from home, abandoning his already simple mother, causing her condition to deteriorate even farther. Paul is a character foil for Dunstan, because of the fact that they both do deal with a guilty conscience, but in very different ways. Although Paul seems angry at the world and in denial of his guilt to the very end, his feeling of guilt is evident as he spends his life reshaping himself, going as far as changing his name a few times. All of this is done in an attempt to reshape his heart, which has been forever affected by the events of the past.