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An Analysis Of A Hero's Journey

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According to Campbell, An-mei’s mother is a hero because she completed the hero’s journey: departure, trial, fulfillment, and return. She fulfills the hero’s journey when her status as a first wife was taken, faces an unhappy life for her daughter’s future, resolves it by taking her life to give her daughter a better one, and gets her status returned to as a first wife.

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