The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is a follow up to The Odysseus, an epic poem by Homer, and we are looking at our hero’s journey. However We don’t need to say that this book follows up The Odysseus, because every book has a hero, but what is a hero? In Joseph Campbell’s own words, “A hero is someone that has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” In simpler terms it is when one is selfless which defined by the dictionary is “concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one’s own”. One doesn’t have to even give something up all they have to do is to care for someone else before themselves. Like a mother would do. This proves to be true because not only does the majority of real