"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
Grapes of Wrath: The Hero's Ending
The Hero's Journey
Separation (from the known)
The Call
The Threshold (with guardians, helpers, and mentor)
Initiation and Transformation
The Challenges
The Abyss
The Transformation
The Revelation
The Atonement
The Return (to the known world)
The Return (with a Gift)
A traditional Hero's Journey story follows the pattern above. The story follows the hero on his journal from point A, through obstacles, to point B, and then, traditionally, back …
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…and companionship and so forth, but it completely veers from the Hero story, and leaves the reader quite clueless about what happens to Tom. Rather than ending with Silent Madame No Baby and her Adventures in Milkland, the novel should have ended with Tom the golden cowboy hero god flying off into the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night to fight for right and use his powers for good.
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