In my opinion both Monkey and Tripiptaka fit into the Heroic Journey model as they both go through many hardships and have different experiences throughout their own journeys. Tripitaka fits into the Heroic Journey model because he goes through a helper’s stage—an essential part of the Heroic Journey. Tripitaka begins the journey in order to find ancient scriptures, which in itself is a heroic action and throughout his journey he faces challenges and must get help from monkey. Monkey saved the life of Tripitaka by killing men who tried to steal from Monkey. This is a clear indication of the heroism that monkey has, he risks his own life in order to protect the mission that Tripitaka is trying to accomplish.
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I believe that Monkey is in between stage three and four (Refusal of the Call and Threshold: Point of Letting Go). For example when Monkey killed the robbers that were set on killing him and Tripitaka but instead of being thankful he scolded Monkey on taking their lives. Monkey believed that what he did was the right thing to do and refused to understand that he doesn’t need to go around killing everyone that stands in his way so he got angry and left. This is an example of strange three because Monkey couldn’t face the fact that maybe there was another way to escape death without killing your opponent first. Monkey then went to visit the Dragon King of the East and told him “We met some brigands, and naturally I killed them. Then he started scolding me. Your may imagine I wasn’t going to stand that. So I left him at once, and am going back to my kingdom.” This is clearly stage three, he is running away from his challenges and is trying to return to that is familiar even if it isn’t what is best for him. But the Dragon King was able to push him to go back to Tripitaka and not give up, this is where i believe Monkey was on to stage four, letting go.