The Ordinary World

In The Jungle Book by Richard Kupling, Mowgli's ordinary world is deep into the Indian jungles living amongst his family-the wolfpack. The wolfpack is huge and each month they all attend a meeting of the wolves. Mowgli lives with a smaller clan of wolves; mother and father wolves and all of his brothers and sisters. From birth Mowgli was separated from his parents and he grew up with the wolves, so this is where he finds himself most at home. When he is forced to leave this world, he faces challenges like speaking human language and doing human things like farming and cooking.

The Ordeal

In the novel Change Of Heart by Jodi Picoult, Shay Bourne is a 30 something year old man convicted of first degree murder of a police officer and child and molestation, and he is sentenced to a death penalty. Before he dies he wishes to donate his heart to the child of the woman who was a mother and wife to his crimes. The little girl who is the daughter of the woman needs a heart soon or she will die. The Ordeal of the story is after Shay's wish is granted by the supreme court and he is allowed to complete his death sentence by hanging instead of lethal injection so that the organs can be harvested. It is when he gets hanged that is the ordeal or the heart of the journey.