I'm currently reading Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis. It isn't clear who the hero is yet but I think the emerging hero might be the main character, Emily. I think this because so far the book is in her point of view and it is talking about her life so it is obviously a path from the ego. Another hint is that in the story Emily's mother developes breast cancer and Emily immediately quits her job and breaks up with her boyfriend to be at her mother's side. It is also hinted that her mother will probably die so I definitely think that there is a lot of self sacrifice in Emily's life. The author also makes it obvious that she is an antagonist, which is also a hero character trait. I think something will happen in Emily's life soon that will somehow define her as a hero even more but I haven't come to that point yet.
In this quote you can kind of see how Emily is dealing with her mother's cancer and how it makes her a bit of a hero.
""I quit my job, walked out on Sam, and slept at my mom's house last night," I say.
Long pause. I'm actually waiting for him to shake his head in disgust, or laugh hysterically. He does neither. "All or nothing," Paul says. "All or nothing. Finding a middle ground would..."
"Be impossible, but feel like a vacation?""
-Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later, Page 59.
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