Hero's Journey In Hope Was Here By Joan Bauer

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Hero’s Journey Essay

Hope has moved from place to place her entire life. She hasn’t stayed in one town long enough to create special bonds with anyone, so she doesn’t have any close friends. Maybe Mulhoney, Wisconsin will be different. In the book Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer, Hope has always been trying to do her name justice. But when she moves to a small town in Wisconsin, her whole world has been turned upside-down. She has been waitressing for a local diner and even helping a man with cancer (G.T) run for mayor. Once she went on her departure to the strange new world of Wisconsin, her greatest life adventure begins. The second Hope departed to WI, she knew she was in for a roller coaster ride. As she and her adoptive mother, Addie,

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