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A Hero's Journey

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The genie didn’t outset like everyone knows him, he wasn’t omnipotent or even delighted in the beginning. Throughout his life, he had to agonize and put up with many events. However, you could say those advents made him who he is. At the beginning, he was a wonted person called Khalid, who didn’t enjoy an ecstatic life. Living in the streets, he had managed to withstand over time by doing small tasks and in extreme plights, by stealing. On occasion, he was able to burglarize some books from travellers from far away. This way, he was able to pick up by his own. Because of his nonexistent wealth, he couldn’t afford tutelage, instead, he taught himself with books he found lying around and with the 3 different styles of learning. Visually, he …show more content…

Nonetheless, who would want a poor man with no actual education to teach? Feeling despondent, Khalid walked the roads every night in search of something of interest to him. However, he shouldn't have, at night the sultan's guards wandered the roads, if they saw someone in the streets at that time of the night, they imprisoned them until someone will come to their extrication, unfortunately, Khalid had no one to rescue …show more content…

The guard instead of arresting him started to talk with Khalid. The guard had a map of the desert that guided to a magic lamp that could make all of your ambitions come true, so he made a deal with Khalid. Khalid will venture in the dangerous dessert to look for this lamp, if he found the lamp one wish would be his. Thinking of the paramountcy he could gain with this wish, Khalid immediately accepted and ventured to the desert. Gruelingly and eminently, Khalid had been scrutinizing the lamp for over an hour without luck. Suddenly, a vigorous gale started to blast and took the map from Khalid’s hands, he started to stampede, he didn't know how to come back, he would likely succumb in a few hours of dehydration. Running towards what looked like a little hill where the sandstorm wouldn’t reach him, he noticed two curious pieces shining in the sand apart from each other. Wondering what they were, he picked them up. When he analyzed those objects carefully, he clearly saw they formed a beetle together. When he thought of this, he joined

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