I'm starting to notice a pattern in the books I read. It's called the pattern of Transcendence. I just made that up.
The Literary Pattern of Transcendence:
1. The characters start out in a hard place, usually they're at the bottom of their respective place.
2. They rise up to get out of their place, but they are challenged and beaten back down.
3. Finally, after enduring hardship and learning of their place, and their inner strength, they overcome their place, their boss, their nemesis, their enemy, something that blocks them from ruling their place.
4. After finally getting to the top of their place, they then go beyond the bounds of that place, and they go from place leader to myth.
5. After becoming a myth, they later turn into a god.
I'll just put that there and then make a note of it whenever I read it.
Call of the Wild:
1. Buck, the dog, is taken from a good place to a bad place and is in the lowliest of spots.
2. But tries to rise up out of his place with his strength, but is literally beaten down by the man in the red sweater and by Spritz, the lead dog of the dog sled team.
3. Finally, after enduring much hardship and learning, he kills Spritz and takes his place as the lead dog of the dog sled.
4. After finally getting to the top of his place, he then, eventually, is leaves his place and finds himself in the wild, where he becomes a mythic creature that runs in the wild as an 'evil spirit,' which the Indians understand him to be.
5. He is now a myth to the Indians that turn tell his legend to all. And we read a book about his life journeys.
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