A Wish In The Dark Hero's Journey Essay

Pong, the main character of the book, escapes prison at the age of nine and rides in a bunch of garbage to escape. In the story A Wish In the Dark by Christina Soontornvat, Pong runs from Namwon prison to find a better life and be free. Pong then meets with a monk leader and joins a monk group only for the leader to die. Along Pong's adventure, he follows the hero's journey. Some steps he took that I will talk about today are the ordinary world, the call to adventure and meeting with a mentor. Pong is on the hero's journey throughout the entire story. The ordinary world is the part of the story when the hero is introduced. He is not any different than the people around him. Pong, the hero in Wish in the dark, does not seem like an extraordinary character in the beginning of

Cham dies. He gives Pong his blessing and tells him to find what he is looking for. The quote shows this and it shows how far. cham wishes good things for pong. “my wish for you is that you find what you are looking for the old man whispered” Meeting with a mentor, this is the part of the hero's journey when our hero goes to some other place and finds or is looking for someone usually older and wiser to meet with and get advice from.Meeting with this person usually gives them some power or motivation to do better.In A Wish in the Dark Pong goes through meeting with a mentor when Pong finds Father Cham, Father Cham mentors him until Pong is ready Father Cham then passes away and he is ready Pong goes on an adventure that shows how long he became a monk under Fr. chams teachings. ”Pong became a baby monk and began training under father chams guidance” (Sontornvat 111). In the end, Pong does follow the hero's journey. The main steps he follows are the ordinary world, a call to adventure and meeting with a mentor. In the book, Pong meets up with monks and becomes one himself before he ran away from prison on a trash boat and hid in a bin of fruit