The change may involve a drastic geographical relocation, as in adventure stories such as Tolkien’s The Hobbit, or the visits to Narnia in the C. S. Lewis chronicles, or Mr. McGregor’s garden in Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit. On the other hand, the change may involve social or cultural relocation, as in the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, whose main character is plunged into the heady world of the aristocracy via Oxford University in the 1920s. In the movie It’s a Wonderful Life, the “voyage” takes the main character into an alternative history, namely, the history that would have
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