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The Hero's Journey

After we finish Lit Circles, we will do a short unit on The Hero's Journey and The Odyssey. Here's some information for you to preview.

The Hero's Journey

Bildungsroman or Coming of Age novel

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens' thirteenth novel. It is the second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and the story genre is Victorian Literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.

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