I believe monkey fits into the Heroic Journey model and experiences its second phase during the first chapter of Journey to the West. In the first chapter, the monkeys are curious as to where their water source is coming from. However, they are too afraid to venture through the great waterfall’s curtain to get their answer. The monkeys exclaimed, “if any of us were brave enough to pierce that curtain, get to where the water comes from and return unharmed, we would name him our king”. Three times the monkeys raised their offer when suddenly Stone Monkey cries out that he is willing to go through the curtain. I feel that the monkeys offer was Stone Monkey’s first call to adventure, this risk that many of his peers were unwilling to take allowed him to become their leader and eventually lead him to his second call to adventure. I feel Stone Monkey’s second call to adventure comes when he suddenly becomes sad after several hundred years of ruling. Stone Monkey is unable to cope with the fact he is a mortal being, he wonders if there is any way he could live forever, “among the people of the sky”. One of his subjects then explains that there are immortals that walk on the very same earth they do. This news excites Monkey and he then says to his subjects “Tomorrow, I shall say goodbye to you, go down the mountain, wander like a cloud to the corners of the sea, far away to the end of the world, till I have found these three kinds of immortals”. This decision to leave his subjects would eventually lead Monkey to become, “The Great Monkey sage, equal to Heaven”.