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Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey

do the work of explaining everything as needed. T h e Ally is sometimes an "audience character," someone who sees the Special W o r l d of the story with fresh eyes as we would do if we were there. Novelist Patrick O'Brian employed this device in his long series of books about the British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars. H i s hero, Jack Aubrey, is similar to heroes of other seafaring books like C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornhlower, but O'Brian's books are distinguished by the introduction of a strong, life-long Ally for the dash­ ing sea captain, in the character of Stephen Maturin, a doctor, naturalist, and secret 72  ALLY agent who remains a stranger to the ways of the sea despite decades of sailing with his friend. O'Brian provides much comedy with Stephens lame attempts to under­