Does As I Lay Dying follow the Hero's Journey Template? Yes or no?
William Faulkner's book As I Lay Dying follows the lives of the Bundrens during and after the Death of Addie Bundren, who was the mother of the Bundren Kids. Throughout each chapter of the book, we are given a different character's perspective of what could be happening in the moment of the book or a story that happened in the past. This book tends to follow each step in Campbell’s Hero’s journey template, but some steps can sometimes be hard to figure out. I think that even though the book sort puts the events into a puzzle, I think that you can still pick out the steps of the Hero’s Journey. Throughout the book, each chapter is a different character, but to make the book even more confusing, the scene that the character is in sometimes changes between the characters. Having different perspectives can definitely make it so that different steps of the Hero’s Journey can be super long. For example, the “Call to Adventure” step. At the beginning of the book, the Bundren Family is...