Angry Black White Boy as a Hero's Journey Gone Wrong
Throughout the first part of Angry Black White Boy, my emotions surrounding the book were kinda okaaay… maybe… huh, looks like this might go all right! Oh, this seems like a problem… eh, he’ll figure out something. After all, it’s a Hero’s Journey, right? Right? And towards the beginning, it seemed like it was working out. Whatever I thought of his ideology, he seemed to have one! He had an ability to galvanize people and somehow reach them. And he did make some good points. By what I thought was the end of the exciting bit, when he is whisked away in the Deus Ex Machina, I had doubts. But I wasn’t about to give up hope yet! Maybe it looked like Macon had completely failed the Supreme Ordeal, but there was probably another thing coming up where he could, I don’t know, figure out how he relates to black people and become an actual supportive ally! Oh, I was so naïve. How do we deal with a failed hero? Where did his journey go off