Forthcoming of American Literature

The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct




Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora




of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared:




The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by




J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the




adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make




their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century.




The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about a young man called Holden




Caulfield, who travels from Pencey Prep to New York City struggling with




his own neurotic problems. These two novels can be compared using the




Cosmogonic Cycle with both literal and symbolic interpretations.




The Cosmogonic Cycle is a name for a universal and archetypal




situation. There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to




adventure, the threshold crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test,




a flight or a flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do




not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic




death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to




interpret literature because is 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...