A Hero's Journey Analysis
The departure stage is the first stage that starts the hero’s journey. The call to Adventure is the first part of the hero’s journey. (Campbell 41). The call to adventure is as it sounds the point where something happens that causes the hero to begin his or her quest, it’s the most pivotal moment that the hero has at the start of the journey. Wright has his call to adventure when he enrolls in the University of Wisconsin in the engineering program that they had. Wright ended up dropping out after a few semesters and at the time that he does, he moves to Chicago (Huxtable 41-42). He decided to make the move when he decided that the small town of Madison had nothing left to offer him. Upon making it to Chicago Wright wasted no time in finding a place to work. “He tried many places and kept getting rejected. Wright’s last stop was the firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee” (Huxtable 46). Silsbee takes the place of mentor for Wright, it’s with him that Wright learns more on his talent and begins his career and legend. Wright leaves Silsbee and gets hired immediately by Adler and Sullivan as an assistant for Sullivan at this time Sullivan becomes the mentor teaching Wright more. Wright going through these parts of the hero’s quest puts him in the hero category. Even with the fact that it’s known he lied to lie his way into getting what he wanted.
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His biggest Ally had to be Darwin Martin who supported Wright financially for many years. Wrights mother was also an ally to him; she always believed in him and wanted him to succeed as an Architect. Sullivan who helped Wright develop his talent was also an ally to Wright. The next step of the initiation stage is the road of trials that Wright faced. Wright faced many trails during his quest. “In 1909 Wright left his wife and six children to leave Chicago with his lover Mamah Cheney but he had not thought this through” (Smith 101). This was the first step into the road of trials for Wright. He decided to take a voluntary exile and while doing this built himself and Mamah a place to live. He could the place Taliesin. Possibly one of the biggest trials that Wright encountered was on August 15th 1914 while Wright was away “A servant set fire to the home, causing the death of seven people in the home at the time. Mamah being one of the persons present” (Huxtable 137). It is this period that Wright was put to the test the
His biggest Ally had to be Darwin Martin who supported Wright financially for many years. Wrights mother was also an ally to him; she always believed in him and wanted him to succeed as an Architect. Sullivan who helped Wright develop his talent was also an ally to Wright. The next step of the initiation stage is the road of trials that Wright faced. Wright faced many trails during his quest. “In 1909 Wright left his wife and six children to leave Chicago with his lover Mamah Cheney but he had not thought this through” (Smith 101). This was the first step into the road of trials for Wright. He decided to take a voluntary exile and while doing this built himself and Mamah a place to live. He could the place Taliesin. Possibly one of the biggest trials that Wright encountered was on August 15th 1914 while Wright was away “A servant set fire to the home, causing the death of seven people in the home at the time. Mamah being one of the persons present” (Huxtable 137). It is this period that Wright was put to the test the