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Genius Annotation

From Tommy. Tommy’s father has been reported missing in the war, but he returns. This is sung in the characters of his mother and father.

In Joseph Campbell’s theory of the the hero’s journey, this song represents the call to adventure – a dramatic event that throws Tommy out of his comfortable childhood and into an uncertain world.

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