The Hero's Journey includes specific stages like the ordinary world, refusal, and call to adventure. Jewell Parker Rhodes' novel, Ghost Boys, puts the Hero's Journey into a narrative of Jerome, a 12 year old boy dealing with the difficulties of being a ghost. Why he's a ghost, you might ask. That's because he got shot by a white cop, mistaking a fake gun for a real gun. He got the gun from a friend named Carlos and got it from him. Throughout Jerome's story he learns to control being a ghost and his feelings about the cop, because he became friends with his daughter.
The first stage of the Hero's Journey is an ordinary world. Jerome's ordinary world is like every other because he wakes up, eats breakfast
