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That particular structure is called the "Hero's Journey," and yes, there are many stories which aren't. 1984, Animal Farm, Death of a Salesman, Brokeback Mountain — look for stories with sad end...
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2019-12-13T12:00:22Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T03:31:02Z (about 5 years ago)
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That particular structure is called the "Hero's Journey," and yes, there are many stories which aren't. - _1984, Animal Farm, Death of a Salesman, Brokeback Mountain_ — look for stories with sad endings, because that often means the hero didn't succeed in overcoming the problem, and wasn't transformed. - _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch_ is literally a day in the life of a prisoner in a gulag, so there isn't any kind of journey there. - I realize it's an episode of a TV show and not a novel, but _Star Trek: Voyager_ had a two-parter called "Year of Hell." Alternate timelines were heavily featured. At the end of part two, the Reset Button is hit, and all the alternate timelines are wiped out. The antagonist decides not to start the temporal mucking about, which might sort of qualify as "transformed," but no one remembers the events of the episodes, so no problem is overcome.
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2014-05-12T19:39:14Z (over 10 years ago)
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