Redemption is an integral part of every person. It's about stories with ups and downs, about the music industry with the success of bands and their inevitable destruction, and most of all about people because we all make mistakes and most of us learn from them . Redemption is what made both of these stories successful. Without the redemption of the characters, A Visit from the Goon Squad and Almost Famous would not have been as successful as they were and the viewer would have hated each of the characters. The stories would simply be about characters who make big mistakes but never fix them; of characters who never really become someone because the viewer will never become truly sympathetic. In this statement there are several characters that could be examined to show how justifying themselves makes them successful, but for the purposes of this article we will simply examine the characters of Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Bennie and Sasha, and Crowe's almost famous characters Penny. and William.Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer, born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco (Bio). When asked how she "categorized Goon Squad, in terms of genre, in terms of (her) own past work", she responded by saying: "I wanted to avoid centrality. I wanted polyphony. I wanted a sideways feel, not a forward feel. My basic rules were: each piece should be very different, from a different point of view. I actually tried to break this rule later; if you make a rule, you should break it too! (Julavits)His book is made up of 13 short stories that work together to form a single story, moving "from one protagonist to another in a wild relay race that will end with the same characters he begins with while dispensing." ..... middle of paper ......n Squad. New York: Random House, 2010. Print. “FAQs for Almost Famous. » IMDb. IMDb.com, June 2013. Web. March 29, 2014. .Julavits, Heidi. “Jennifer Egan.” Editorial. BOMB Magazine sd: n. page. BOMB Magazine. Summer 2010. Web. March 29, 2014. "Bio “Jennifer Egan." Jennifer Egan. Np, and Web. March 29, 2014. .Scott, AO "With sympathy for the devil, a rock writer finds his way." Reverend of Almost Famous. The New York Times September 13, 2000: n. The New York Times, September 13, 2000. .Travers, Peter. Rolling Stone, September 13, 2000. March 28. 2014. .