Post #4
As I Lay Dying: Hero's Journey In As I Lay Dying, the structure of the book often uses non-linear plotting and mobile perspective as a way to tell the story. Confusing as this may be, this story follows Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. Decipherable stages of the hero's journey that we can see in the book include the Call to Adventure, and Road of Trials, which I would argue that we are currently on. Though some stages of the Hero's Journey are unclear and don't follow the monomyth down to a T, we can see that the story uses the monomyth as a structure of its storytelling. Though the Call to Adventure is not at the beginning of the book, it still happens. In this case it happens after we get some context of the characters. Addie Bundren dies, which is the Call to Adventure. This sets off a journey to go to Jefferson. According to Joseph Campbell, this stage begins as " a call to head off into the unknown. According to Campbell, this region is repre