Protagonist

If you were a protagonist in your own short story, who would your antagonist be? Would you be on the same side as your parents or opposing sides? How would your story end? The answers to these questions can show similarities and differences between protagonists. In “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, the author challenges the idea of American vs. Chinese culture. She often uses chess as a simile for American culture. Waverly’s mother, Mrs. Jong, describes chess in a passive-aggressive way,…

Magnolia (1999) Like Born on the Fourth of July, this film simply tells a story and gets a valuable message across though relatable characters. However, the one characteristic that sets it apart from other films is that it stars multiple protagonists that each have their own story, and they all connect with each other in some way. In my opinion, this is a perfect example of cinematic brilliance because all of the previous films have only displayed one main storyline. I understand that it is…

Character narrators are a way of looking at scenes through an individual’s eyes. Using this point of view creates a more personal story, but it can also form a biased, unreliable view. By introducing a second character narrator, the reader is given a second point of view that enforces the first narrator and strengthens the story. In Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden gives two character narrators, Xavier and Niska. The present narrative is of the characters travelling down the river to Niska’s home…

Both stories includes the major theme around the protagonist’s relation with imagination and reality. Both stories gave the choice between 2 different ideas (imagination and reality) in the theme and the change the protagonist were having of their belief on the choice of imagination and reality in the turning point of the texts. Meanwhile, there were parts in the texts how the theme was used differently. While Walter Mitty made a choice to accept his change from the turning…

apocalypse takes place around 1951 in the center of London. Since the first half of the novel takes place in London, the setting includes thousands of frightened blind people who wonder the streets. This causes a more hectic environment for the protagonist, Bill, due to the constant theft and craze of the newly blind people. The setting of the novel creates a hopeless feel that Bill carries on his shoulders throughout the book. The most potent part of the setting is the Triffid plants that…

statements. The words come from Wordsworth’s mouth can give readers better sense of what’s going on and what are the protagonists thinking about. Conversations in the “Miguel Street” make readers know what it feels like to be a poet in a society that does not value poems at all; therefore, dialogues advance the major theme of the story and establish vivid scenes of the protagonists’…

In the short story, “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, the protagonist, Squeaky is a young girl who is in charge of taking care of her handicapped brother. Everyone calls the protagonist Squeaky because of her squeaky voice, but her real name is Hazel Elizabeth Deborah. She lives in New York with her family, and spends most of her days taking care of her brother and running. She does seem to be that social so she usually just prefers to be independent, and stick to her brother as a friend.…

-Ruby Otrera: the protagonist of the story who is gifted with Fireblood powers, she is portrayed with a stubborn and fiery personality. She is thought to be the last of the firebloods and also falls in love with Arkanus. Throughout the book Ruby is persecuted for her abilities and gift ,but also finds who she is throughout the book. Ruby is classified as a developing character due to her finding out her powers throughout the story. -Arkanus: a important character throughout the book who is a…

though he worked hard to provide for his family, he was not a good man and didn’t deserve to be remembered as one. So no, Troy Maxson was not a hamartia. He was not a protagonist that had an error or tragic flaw that led to a chain of plot actions building-up in a reversal of their good fortune to bad because he was not a protagonist with a good fortune in this play to begin…

script is that the protagonist, John, is determined to solve the murder of a police officer…