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    character as we get a lot of insight on her option and life. The antagonist of the story is not a person but cancer itself. The cancer limits the activities that Hazel and Augustus can do. People constantly judge hazel for her oxygen tank just because she's different the reason cancer is the antagonist is because it prevents all the main characters from what society defines as normal teen lives. You could also say the antagonist could be Augustus Waters. The rasin for this is the fact the before

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    another woman Kat Lowe, do what they can to hunt him down. In doing this she creates a nonfiction piece the manifests itself as typical hero and rival story, a story in which the hero, protagonist, or good-doer attempts to stop the villain, rival, antagonist or wrong doer from whatever harm they with to inflict. Even more specifically, Labi piece can be read as a detective story, in which the hero goes through trials and research in order to hunt down a criminal whose identity is often initially unknown

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    Eastin’s style of writing is very focused on characters and how they interact. Every single one of his characters possesses unique traits and personalities. He somehow manages to create characters that the audience strives to be, and yet they are all pretty normal people. Take Neal Caffrey for example. He is the main character of White Collar and a pretty normal person. He turns from his life of crime and seeks a home, friends, and family (Eastin). The audience wants to be like him not because of

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    Updike’s “A&P” and Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” We as the reader are introduced to two teenagers through the author’s imagination. Not only are these two characters close in age, but they are also subjects to much older antagonist weighing down on some decisions at hand. Sammy, the cashier in “A&P” by John Updike is tested when three girls his age come into his grocery store in beach attire. While Connie, the conceited teenage girl in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You

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    gives the viewers some perspective of the story between the three main characters who play an integral part in the movie. Moreover, it can also be interpreted that the story will involve some vigorous fight scenes between the protagonist and the antagonist, but also glimpses of the heroine. Furthermore, I think in the quick glimpse of the movie that is given to the viewers in the trailer helps to determine the certain themes of what the movie would be about: such as honour of the Rajputs but also

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    character is labelled as the protagonist and the other the antagonist. Seeing as Shelley has embedded such complex character development and depth throughout the novel, it hardly seems appropriate to label characters as simply as “protagonist” and “antagonist”. I argue that there are two other protagonist-antagonist combination available for analysis: not only are Frankenstein and the monster both protagonists, but they are also both antagonists to each

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    Hilly In The Help

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    A villain in a story is usually the main antagonist, and usually changes the hero or the protagonist’s life and more often than not, enhances the meaning of the story. In The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the main antagonist is Hilly as obviously she causes problems in the very beginning when we are first introduced to her. As the reader gets to know Hilly through two of the three main protagonists is, also when we start to find interest and meaning to the plot of the story. Hilly is a mean woman that

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    After reading the two novels Frankenstein and The Sorrows of Young Werther, I realized that both antagonist Victor and Werther are disturbing because they caused a lot of problems. Werther is the antagonist in The Sorrows of young Werther, at the beginning of the novel whether is happy because he has escaped because he wanted to avoid the problems that he was facing. One of them was with Leonora the girl he was dating. It seems that she really was in love with Werther, but he ended up cheating on

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    Characterization is shown through indirect and direct stories. Indirect is when the author does not go straight out and tell the reader characteristics, but direct is a five letter acronym known as S.T.E.A.L. These individual letters stand for say, think, effect, actions, and look. Say stands for what the character says throughout the story, think is what the character imagines or says in his or her mind that only the reader and the narrator know, effect stands for what effect the characters' actions

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    so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blithely handing over the world to us so much like skid-marked underwear.” (86) There has been a new character introduced named Tobias, who seems to resemble an antagonist as Andy doesn’t seem to

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