Some protagonists grow throughout the journey; others are trying to embark on one.
Some protagonists grow throughout the journey; others are trying to embark on one. In stories involving an “Escape Artist,” the reader becomes intimate with a character stuck in a trap. Sometimes that trap is a building, like the prison in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Other times, the trap is society or the government, much like Offred’s desire to escape Gilead in A Handmaid’s Tale.