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Every lane of life represents a journey and challenge for human beings. This journey itself also creates the base of all narratives that are produced by humankind. Joseph Campbell who states that every narrative is the same one and only story that has the same patterns, treated the process of become a hero of ordinary people in his work of The Hero’s Journey (1949). Indicating a pattern on the axis of “The Road” , “ The Journey”, and “The Hero”, Campbell classifed the processes of which heroes goes through in narratives in principles of “Taking the Road”, “Inititation” and “Return” stages. It’s a matter of subject that heroes that manifest themselves with their individual standings of modern times especially in novel genre, also take place in their societies as well as their lifes by going through a certain journey. In this respect, It can be said that, processes that Campbell built over archaic narratives have a vast scale of similarities with journies of heroes in the Bildungroman that emerged in German literature. Because, for centuries, some rituals and trainings have been practiced in order people to be accepted in a society. It is seen that Bilgdungsromans, examples of which are also encountered in Turkish literature, and the pattern suggested by Campbell in “The Hero’s Journey” include the hero’s adventure the path that is followed ends up with a certain achievement. In this context, it comes to mind of questions of what kind of motivation the heroes of traditional and modern narratives take out the journey with, what obstacles they encountered and what kind of tranformation they experienced. In this study, the works of modern Turkish literature Hakan Gunday’s Daha (2013), Hasan Ali Toptas’s Heba (2013), Orhan Pamuk’s Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık (2014) and Abdullah Atascı’s Yara Bende (2018) have been selected in order to find answers to these questions. In the research in which the discourse anylsis method will be used, commonalities and separations of hero’s journey with Bildungsroman genre and Campbell’s forms in the narrative pattern will be englightened over selected examples of novels.