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My Hero's Journey-Personal Narrative

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The soft, waterlogged dirt pushed its way between my toes whilst I marched on along the river as it coursed bend after bend. The flexed limbs of oak and hemlock trees hugged each other in an elongated stretch to eternity. Wind rustled against the copse. A kestrel landed on a branch in fair proximity to me. I had seen this bird before. He was a small, rotund fellow with a bright blue head and contrasting tan body. Unlike most of his brothers and sisters who had deep blue tips on the ends of their beaks, his was a solid yellow. “It’s a little far from the meadow, dontcha think?” I asked the bijou falcon. He cocked his head to the side, inquiring me with his big, probing eyes. “I think so too,” I whispered. I turned on my heel and continued …show more content…

A government enforced journey known as The Hunt. I call it a journey only because that’s what my mom thinks I should call it. “If you go on this journey with the attitude that it is, in fact, a journey,” She would begin, “It’ll take all the discord away. You may dislike the system, but a hundred years ago, what kid could say they’d been across the entire world in just one year? You’re really the lucky one here. Kids didn’t get to go on journeys like this back in the day.” I guess she had a point, didn’t she? I got to travel the entire world, and since my aunt was married to the Secretary of State, I got to go completely free. So I really was the lucky one. Right? Before I tell you any more, I guess maybe I should try explaining the government. The whole concept of how our government came to be is, well, how can I put it nicely? It’s rather improbable, but it's all anyone has ever been taught, so it must me true. Over a century ago, complete turmoil broke out. All the governments in the existing earth collapsed, leaving destruction to romp free. Luckily for us, it didn't take long for a man named William Sanford to rise to power and quickly turn everything

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