Good Paragraph: Jack Kerouac "On The Road"

Kerouac approaches his Hero's Journey with a much more abstract view.  For most of the reading I found myself struggling with what exactly the Approach to the Inmost Cave and the Ordeal would be.  Upon the culmination of events at the end of chapter 7, however, I realized that it is in fact the confusion of the night that makes for our Ordeal.  There is a building tension with the passing of events as Sal reunites with Carlo, followed by Dean, and then is dragged through the night in a series of uncomfortable situations.  It is, therefore, this build-up of tension that is the Approach to the Inmost Cave.