The Epic Hero Cycle In Kanye West's Through The Wire

The call in the epic hero cycle is when the hero is challenged to face the unknown. In the song “Through the Wire”, Kanye West is called into the epic hero cycle when he gets into a car crash. This can be seen in “Through the Wire” when West said, “There's been an accident like GEICO” (45). He is called into the challenge of recovery. West enters this challenge unwillingly. The car crash he got in was near fatal, and everyone involved had serious injuries. This is ‘The Call’ for him, because these injuries made him enter the road to recovery. In conclusion, Kanye West gets ‘The Call’ into his quest/challenge of recovery when he gets in a car crash. The threshold is the part that jump-starts the story. The threshold in “Through the Wire” is when Kanye West broke his jaw. A broken jaw is a very serious injury; it takes around four to six weeks to recover from one. In “Through the Wire,” West states, “I
In “Through the Wire”, Kanye West’s low point during this near-fatal event was when he was near death. After getting in a car crash West was placed on life support. In “Through the Wire”, West states, “I must got a angel cause look how death missed him” (47-48). This shows that it was his darkest hour, and how he is blessed to be alive. In conclusion, the low point of Kanye West’s car crash was when he was near death. The atonement in the epic hero cycle is when the hero is ‘reborn’ and they continue their journey. In the epic hero cycle demonstrated in “Through the Wire”, Kanye continues his journey of recovery and getting back into music after his car crash. West describes this in “Through the Wire” when he says, “But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph” (54). He continued his recovery, and turned this tragedy in to positive things, such as writing his experience into a hit song. In conclusion, Kanye West continued his recovery and made many good things out of