In both Among the Hidden and The Giver, Haddix and Lowry create the Hero's Journey with characterization, conflict, and style.
In both The Giver and Among the Hidden, the characters and their traits are very important to the hero’s journey.
In The Giver, the Giver says, “‘Call me the Giver,’ he told Jonas” (Lowry 87).
Readers feel like it is just the Giver introducing himself. We see that he is helping Jonas out and know more about him.
However, this isn’t all this quote reveals.
This quote here is very important to understanding the character that helps the whole journey for Jonas to fall into place. It helps the readers know who the character is, but eventually, this character, the Giver, is very important to the story and without him, the story wouldn’t
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Lowry makes it seem like a huge dam has been broken in between Jonas and the Giver using her style and word choice. This both created a major trust between the mentor and hero, as well as showed use of style by Lowry. This moment is developed by the style, and it develops the hero’s journey, which makes the style a major part of the hero’s journey in The Giver.
In Among the Hidden the author says, “Jen waited. The silence between them seemed to be growing, like a balloon. Luke struggled to speak. "I can't go." Jen gaped at him. "I can't," he said again, weakly. Jen shook her head briskly. "Yes, you can," she said. "I know you're scared—who isn't? But this is important”(Lowry 67/68).
In this piece of the story it shows how the author uses his style to make the story better, Lowry’s style makes it seem like something is stopping Luke from going to the rally and Jen is very suprised. He does this with his word choice and mood. For example. when Luke says he can’t go Jen gaped at him. Without this the story would be dull and boring.
As you can see, in both texts the authors, Lowry and Haddix, use author style to improve and expand their