Comparing "The Adventures Of Huck Finn" And "The Catcher In The Rye"

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Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation.
The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the
actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are
many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by
chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. In The
Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck is forced with the dilemma of whether to stay
with his father and continue to be abused or to leave. Huck goes because
he desires to begin his journey. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden
mentally is torn between experience and innocence, it would seem to him
that an outside force is luring him to do something but in actuality he is
beginning his journey because of his desire. The Call to Adventure is the
first step in the Cosmogonic Cycle, it is the step at which the character
or hero is brought into cycle.
The Threshold Crossing is the second step, it is the place or the
person that ...

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of mind and exits with a cleared mind. The use of symbolic
death and motifs is associated with the Threshold Crossing, the second step
of the Cosmogonic Cycle.
The Road of Trials is the next step in the Cosmogonic Cycle, which are
the obstacles which the character faces throughout the literary work. In
The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck's Road of Trials occurs on the
Mississippi River. He faces many obstacles, including moral decisions of
right and wrong, dealing with con-artists, and helping a runaway slave. He
promulgates more experienced from his journey down the river on his raft.
In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden's Road of Trials takes from Pencey Prep
to New York City. ...

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