Abstract
Jennifer Johnston writes about secret friendships which grow between disaffected members of opposing communities, an example being the kinship found between a Catholic boy and a Protestant woman in Northern Ireland in her novel Shadows on Our Skin. These friendships cross traditionnal boundaries and lead to ritual punishment. Johnston shows that real heroism does not lie in the soldiery and violence used to maintain such boundaries, but in opening the heart and learning more about oneself and the world through friendship with someone whom your own community has taught you to mistrust. This redemptive journey corresponds with Joseph Campbell's study of the stages of the journey of the hero in his mythological study, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
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