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On my resource page, you’ll find, The Hero’s Journey, or monomyth, which was devised by Joseph Campbell. The Hero’s Journey suggests the idea that all great stories have the same characters. When I started reading THE YELLOW HOODS: Along Came a Wolf (Book 1): An Emergent Steampunk Series by fellow twitter writer, Adam Dreece, I realized within the first few chapters his characters fit within the Hero’s Journey archetypes.
THE HERO: Tee
THE SHADOW: Andre LeLoup
THE HERALD: You’re going to have to read the book to find out.
THE MENTOR:Nikolas Klaus
THRESHOLD GUARDIANS: LeLoup’s henchman
SHAPESHIFTER: There is one
TRICKSTERS:The Cochon Brothers
ALLIES:Tee’s friends
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I really enjoyed Adam’s book because he has a knack for storytelling, and he followed Joseph Campbell’s archetypes by instinct.
What book or movie do you love? Does it follow the Hero’s Journey? If you’re a writer does your current work in progress follow this model?
My favorite example of the Hero’s Journey is Happy Gilmore.
Here are some links that use this example.
The Hero’s Journey-Happy Glimore Prezi
The Hero’s Journey-You tube video featuring Happy Gilmore
Young Adult written for everyone
Angela M Caldwell 
Excellent hero’s journey diagrams and videos at kalbashir.com
Thanks Justin. There are so many examples out there.
The hero’s journey, like lots of models of criticism, highly prescriptive, which means it seeks to find the points that define itself rather than looking at the work itself to derive the form or meaning. In scientific terms, it has a strong tendency toward confirmation bias. I consider this a fundamental flaw in most forms of literary criticism, but this does not mean they aren’t at all useful or interesting. I think the danger of such approaches is the feeling that, as a writer, you OUGHT to be working within them.
One of my upcoming projects is highly mythological in its style and intent, and might fit into “the hero’s journey,” but I won’t be looking to add its elements in an obtuse fashion, nor do I want to avoid them. I want to just write the book, and let the structure be what it needs to be to have the effect that I want.
And yes, Adam’s book is on the list.