Leon Bridges Definition Of Journey

Name
Mx. Stremer
English 9
31 March 2023
Title
The simple definition of “journey” is “an act of traveling from one place to another”, but in the short stories Volar, Leon Bridges, and Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, the word “journey” is represented as chapters in a book called life, and the narrator is the author who writes the pages and directs the journey. Therefore, Journeys in life take place as moments where you have to persevere in order to achieve the desired outcome. The short story “Volar”strongly supports the thesis because the protagonist perseveres in order to block out her childhood by going on journeys that take place in her mind as dreams; these dreams morph her into who she is. For example, the author

Bridges' life journey relates to the thesis because of how he persevered through challenging times in order to become his fullest potential. For example, Bridges definitely didn't have a quintessential childhood; “He describes his childhood persona in much the same way—as a pariah.” And according to Bridges, “After his parents separated when he was 7, he split time between suburban Fort Worth and inner-city Dallas, where his father worked at a community center.” If that wasn’t hard enough, “10 relatives from New

It is clear that Bridges faced a challenging journey, but was able to overcome his challenges through perseverance and right decision.
The final short story that relates to the thesis is called Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, and in this story, not only does the author, Cheryl Strayed, embark on a metaphorical journey, but she also embarks on a physical journey: The Pacific Crest Trail.
Before Strayed stepped foot on the trail, she lived in Minneapolis “sad and desperate and on the brink of divorcing a man I still loved”; on top of that, Strayed said, “ My father left my life when I was six. My mother died when I was twenty-two”. Therefore, it is clear to see that Strayed definitely didn't have the most pleasant and desirable upbringing; in fact, it was quite horrendous. But these reasons were only partly why she embarked on The Pacific Crest Trail, for she wasn’t even aware that such a thing existed. The way she found out about that trail was through a book outside a store. For example, she said, “I’d been standing in line at an outdoor store waiting to purchase a foldable shovel when I picked up a book called The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California from a nearby shelf and read the back cover”. But she never planned on actually hiking the trail, for she said, “The Pacific Crest Trail wasn’t