False protagonist

is played in order to help and support the protagonist on their journey. At times it can be more beneficial to acknowledge and face the truth head on rather than avoiding it, but at the same time it could be detrimental and the role of minor characters in both A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and the Life Of Pi by Yann Martel demonstrate this point adeptly throughout the novels. Ness and Martel use shifts in character relationships between the protagonists and minor characters to develop the plot…

whether or not she will reach the phone and speak with Jamal. The audience’s anticipation builds even further when Prem says to Jamal that ‘(he) is on (his) own’, before gesturing towards the crew to cut off the call. The use of dark lighting creates a false sense of loss, as the connection between Latika and Jamal is nearly severed. Latika’s scene is also interesting as it holds a lot of parallels towards the previous scene where Latika and Jamal try to run to each other at the train station.…

in the Year 1957” are stories that both similarly center on a teenage male protagonist and somewhat broach the idea of innocence and naivety brought about by youth. “The Bread Of Salt” is about an ambitious fourteen-year old, lower class boy who dreams of success and aspires towards winning the heart of a young lady named Aida. Unfortunately, Aida belongs to a prominent Spanish family. And towards the end, the protagonist realizes they cannot be together as he does not have the same social…

which means that he is able to see things more clearly that the normal person. Dostoevsky does not give the man a name in order to create a sense of similarity between the readers and the Underground Man. The author also relies on the use of a protagonist, Liza, who needs to feel a sense of worth as opposed to the Underground Man and his manipulative attitude. Dostoevsky uses the ideas of Russian Romanticism in order to depict the Underground Man as being someone who is and outcast in a…

about the happenings and why that is their opinion. (“Writing a Book Report”) Plenty of examples from the book need to be used to support a student’s opinion. The examples need to be very detailed and they need to be accurate. Because if you put in false details then your summary is not correct. People think that a Plot Summary is like a synopsis or a black liner and it is not. It does not have the same structure or go in complete chronological order like a synopsis, and it does not ask a…

is “The Sniper”. The story is first built up and then there is a huge twist at the end that changes everything. In “The Sniper”, we find out that the enemy sniper on the other side of the street turns out to be his brother. We find out when the protagonist decides to go check on the dead body and it happens to turn out to be his brother. As stated in the final sentence, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (pg. 4). This fits in situational irony because…

He has to seek out his daughter once she is locked out and police find her weeping in the darkness of the night with one of the hoodlums whom is whispering false promises to her. In the end, the ruffian states to the police, “…I never wanted her anyway…” and this statement shows how he never intended to stay with her. It seems he just wants to see how far he could take her into his realm. The butcher learns…

The typical fictional protagonist is a dynamic, likeable and awe-inspiring character. Someone you could be proud of in the end, someone you wish you knew or could be. That is the sort of person one might have expected Mr. William Hundert, main protagonist of the short story “The Palace Theif” in the book, The Palace Thief, by Ethan Canin, to be. That expectation is supported by the fact that Hundert started out as a moral-driven, passionate, school- and student-loving teacher and antiquarian.…

In the “pursuit of materialism,” objects can often define a character’s depiction and can play a part in displaying their personality as stated by Thomas C. Foster of How To Read Novels Like A Professor. Chapter 14, titled The Light on Daisy’s Dock, maintains “...the Law of Character Clarity: To understand characters, you have to know their deepest desires. More often than not, that desire finds an emblem -an object or action- to give it tangible expression” (Thomas C. Foster 173). The tactic of…

On August 2009, Ms. Patty Chan said she was hired by Chain Systems, Inc. as the Office Manager for the insured as she is supervised by Tong Chen the owner and operator at Chain Systems, Inc. She said her front office desk position requires her to work the front reception of the office where she types up invoices, create P.O.’s, (Purchase Orders) and other simple bookkeeping duties. She said that her office duties derive from instructions whom she receives from Mr. Tom Tong by helping him with…