Metaphor is most frequently used as a literary device in which a word or phrase that normally designates one article is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. Travel serves as an effective metaphor because it can accurately represent many concepts from all walks of life without becoming vague. This feat is accomplished using the inherent characteristics of the word “journey” itself, as a journey can be representative of a process, a physical journey, or any undertaking involving a goal. In Heading South, Looking North by Ariel Dorfman, The Postman by Michael Radford, and "Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda, the metaphor of travel manifests itself both as a process that the protagonists experience and as a goal that they strive to achieve. In all three works in question the process takes the form of a physical journey, while the goal becomes the discovery of one's true identity. These two interpretations of travel as metaphor are intrinsically intertwined and, through careful analysis, we will see how these associations are represented in these works. Heading South, Looking North by Ariel Dorfman perhaps best illustrates the concept of travel being both a process and an experience. objective. Dorfman's travels are a focal point of the autobiography, but the journey of Dorfman's parents becomes important in developing different aspects of Dorfman's search for identity. The connection between Dorfman's soul searching and his journey begins, strangely, before he was born. The story begins in the early 20th century, when Dorman's parents had to flee Europe; his father leaves Odessa and his mother leaves Russia. Both end up in Argentina, where they met in the language common to both bilinguals: Spanish. In essence, the creation of Dorfman's identity begins there, as he was "conceived in Spanish, literally imagined in that language..." (Heading South, 14). This allows us to observe how Dorfman's parents' travels are directly causal to two central elements of Dorfman's identity: his name, Vladimiro, and his language, Spanish (for the time being). The name "Vladimiro" is an important part of Dorfman's identity because it comes from the values ​​and experiences he learned from his father. In essence, Dorfman inherits the product of his father's inner journey that included a fascination with Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution. This is only the beginning of Dorfman's metaphorical and physical journeys, as over the course of the book Dorman encounters new ideals that shift his goals considerably; very often it is the journey that causes this reorientation.