Pi Hero's Journey

I chose Alice in Wonderland because it relates not only to the Hero’s Journey, but also to the book Life of Pi as both of them talk about a person who left their ordinary life in order to a new thing and came back after some time and no one would believe in what they said. It relates to how people act and think towards extreme situations. It shows how Alice, just like Pi, faced her adventure knowing how to manage her emotions and be brave enough to deal with the situations imposed to her. Alice in Wonderland made me think how important it is to manage your feelings and emotions and let your goals be the priority in your life. If Alice followed her emotions she probably wouldn’t have saved Wonderland. The same applies to Pi, if Pi followed

She sees things that she would never think were possible, for example: she talks to animals, and they talk back; she drank a potion that made her shrink, and she was considered the historical hero of Wonderland. Therefore, she keeps denying that she is the “real Alice” that Wonderland had always waited for. Alice is insecure and feels like she is not capable of accomplishing the tasks and duties she is expected to. Alice meets a man called Mad Hatter and while she has tea with him he teaches her about the Red Queen and her plans of devastating Wonderland. He tells Alice to kill the monster, the Jabberwocky and protect Wonderland from the evil Red Queen. The Mad Hatter does everything for Alice, he even sacrificed himself for her. Alice goes through the Threshold when she decides to save the Mad hatter. From the Red Queen. Her journey to the court shows how she took control of herself and of the situation and how she was capable and able to fight for her ideals and for what is important to her. She goes through trials, she meets with people that support her, but also meets people that consider her their enemy. She was told that the key to achieve her goal was to defeat jabberwocky with a vorpal sword. Therefore, she finds it and steals it from the evil Red Queen. After that, she goes to the White Queen’s palace and shows her side delivering the sword to