percy jackson and the 17 stages of the monomyth as elucidated by Joseph Campbell

  Vardaman's mother becomes a piece of delectable French cuisine        For much of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying , Vardaman has an obsession with fish. In his first appearance in the novel, he shows up with a big fish which he caught in the river. After Addie dies a few chapters later, Vardaman continues thinking in terms of fish and not-fish, eventually concluding on page 84 that his mother is a fish. He sticks with that conviction for the rest of the book, only slowly beginning to forget that concept during the barn-burning scene.     What's going on with that (Vardaman and the fish)? Why does Vardaman so vehemently cling onto fish throughout the novel?     Also, for the fun of it, how does Vardaman's fish develop over time through the book? (it's mostly because of how the fish is an easy to grasp way for Vardaman to understand her mother's death. surprise, surprise.)     Vardaman's first fish catching coincides well with the death o...

     In Quicksand , Helga attempts to embark on a Heroine's Journey, travelling from place to place to seek a life that grants her satisfaction and happiness. Yet, despite her attempts to go through the motions of a Heroine's Journey, she eventually fails decisively. In the later chapters of the novel, instead of finally achieving self-actualization, she finds herself trapped in a hellish and stifling life of child-rearing as a reverend's wife. Why is that so? How does Helga, after all this travelling and experiencing, fail so devastatingly on her journey? The answer lays in how she eventually diverges from the Heroine's journey, in which she eschews the final step of integrating the masculine and feminine, accepting the  role which stops her journey in its tracks.     In Maureen Murdock's version of the heroine's journey, the final stage of the journey involves integrating the masculine and feminine after a continuous reckoning with gender expression and g...