THE MUSEUM OF THE ROAD TRIALS

MONOMYTH IN "A LONG WAY GONE"

• Ishmael Beah's memoirs go through the series of events
• before, during, and after his life as a boy soldier. He
• must endure many tasks and trials along the way in search
• of his family and a life away from the war.
• Chapter 6 shows one of Beah's many trials.

"It was during that attack in the village of Kamator that my friends and I separated. It was the last time I saw Junior, my older brother" (Beah 43). The loss of his friends and brother is an ordeal that Beah must go through in order to begin the transformation along his journey. This trial adds to the list of events that have changed his character and attitude towards war thoughout his story.

HARRY POTTER And The Goblet of Fire:

• TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT
• Harry and the other students must compete in three
• tasks to determine the winner of the tournament. Each
• task tests a different skill that causes Harry to begin
• his transformation of character throughout the story tournament.

The second task involves rescuing a stolen object from the bottom of the lake. Harry completes this but fails to win this round of the tournament, as characters often do in Cambell's monomyth.
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THE AMERICAN CRISIS BY THOMAS PAINE

• “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer
• soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
• shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands
• for it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman”
• (The American Crisis, Paine).

This excerpt from Thomas Paine's letter shows the struggle that American soldiers during the Revolutionary War faced. Many were wounded, killed, or left to witness the horrors of war. Like Beah, these trials transformed them as people, leaving some as heroes and others as cowards as Paine puts it.

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