1984 is about a middle aged man named Winston who goes through several trails/events through his life. These trails/events fallow a non-complex story path called the heroes journey. But not all of these sad, romantic, and terrifying events fallow this journey and that’s what I’m here to discuss.

In the begging Winston was just another member of the simple yet so strict community. Just like the heroes journey stated. He did what the party told him to do. he ate drank, slept and worked as though he and all the other members in the community were zombies forever owned by the party and of course big brother. According to the heroes journey the begging states that the hero is part of the community brainwashed since birth and embedded into the society until the middle...

In the middle of the book Winston starts to realize that he doesn’t want to be a member of the society and thus rebelled. This is a common event in hero stories such as harry potter when instead of continuing to be a muggle he decides to become a real wizard (not including the abuse his “parents” and their son put on him).Winston started to realize the real truth about the life he was living and the people controlling it.

In the end of the book the story starts to take a turn from the heroes’ journey path. When Winston goes into the torture room instead of bravery he provides fear, and ends up doing irrational things because of fear. Such as giving away his true love to the party. This is unlike the story line of the heroes’ journey because it states that the hero either dies while making a huge sacrifice for their true love etc. but in this case he ends up cowering and giving her up because he finally faces his worst fear...rats.

In conclusion the heroes’ journey is a path that not all stories fallow ,but it is an important path because it shows us how different stories can be and it helps us compare and contrast hero stories witch helps us to think ,make observations, and even write.