Essay On The Heroic Journey In Laura Weiss's 'Takeover'

The monomyth or more commonly known as the hero journey was thought of by Joseph Campbell who said that any good story would follow these certain rules no matter if it was horror, comedy, or even a love story you’ll find that even your favorite stories would all follow these models or archetypes no matter what, for example the story “Leftovers” by Laura Weiss follows the hero journeys if you analyzed it and pay close enough attention it even plays into archetypes with immediately showing you the protagonist or in this case protagonists and letting you hear their stories.
The first archetype is the quest or the departure often the protagonist is introduced in the beginning to give you a quick peek of their background and what gave them the drive to do what they’re about to do you’ll find it in nearly every monomyth and even in life such as in Weiss book the young heroes Blair and Ardith story both start
The unthinkable thing is finally revealed to be that they set one of Blair’s mother associate daughter dellassandra up by staging her to be raped by ardith brother ruining not only her brother’s life but Blair’s mother career as well. This is the rebirth stage as the girls felt like this was the only solution left and felt that they truly had won they admitted they wish it was another way to go about proving officer David innocence but they had no choice and did what they had to do this would be the part of the hero journeys where they track home victorious and gleaming with