Clownish Goobers
Blog 4 Prompt 3 When you think of the hero’s journey, you are reminded of books like The Hobbit or Harry Potter, where main character heroes go on journeys along with side characters encountering obstacles and saving the world from evil. It’s true that Faulkner’s unique storytelling tactics in As I Lay Dying provide many different perspectives for the reader to understand the narrative completely, but Faulkner’s story does not align at all with the template of the hero’s journey. The criteria to classify a story as a hero’s journey are not met and the determination of the hero is unclear. The telling of a story from countless perspectives just doesn’t work to tell a hero’s journey story. There are too many opinionated tales and flashbacks, instead of the main storyline being focused on. Some flashbacks or anecdotes also contribute little to nothing towards the main journey. For these reasons and more, As I Lay Dying by Willia...