Oedipus creative

Informal essay on the topic: to journey.
People take "journeys" figuratively and literally. A figurative journey could be emomtional happenings that cultivate a person. A literally journey is to travel somewhere. Either way a journey repesents something that takes you to a different place than where you began. A family death could be an example of an emotional jouney, when a person dies you often wonder "why did they have to die? why now? couldn't it be me instead?", as you begin to face the of death, that everyone dies, death is a natural part of life, you often to come to a different conclusion about death than when the person first died. A literal journey can also be an emotional journey, if you travel to a place with different cultures, standards, forms of religion, food, ethinic groups, and traditions, you often question your own way of life and whether or not it is the life you are supposed to or want to be living. It is possible that these questions result in a complete change in personality and behavior, changing you from the person you where at home. In all journey's figuratively or literally, something new is always learned, or experienced, if you're taking a hike maybe you learn that you need to wear better shoes next time, or that a certain plant is poisonous. In Oedipus the Kind, Oedipus journeys from Corinth to Thebes, but he originally was in Thebes, so he was brought back to where he began. He grew up from the time he left, not only physically, but emotionally. In books, novels, and plays, all characters must journey, they set themselves, or are forcefully set into an unknown environment. Journey's are something people do everyday, whether large or small they happen, and they are used in literature to show the cultivation of a character.