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    In Tim Burton’s film, Edward Scissorhands, A boy named Edward sits in a castle, because the maker of Edward died of natural causes. So a women, whose name is Peg finds him, when she is trying to sell her product. She feels bad for Edward so decides to take Edward home to take care of him, and fix him up. In the meantime, Edward does all kinds of things like trims bushes, cuts hair, and cuts dogs hair which is really useful, because no one even pays him, he just does it out of kindness. Then Kim’s

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    Sharing the Unusual In general, movies and novels have many similarities and differences because of the type of work they are; however, sometimes they share the unusual. Donnie Darko and Kafka on the Shore are two famous works which have both received numerous awards and have been highly ranked. Donnie Darko, a movie released in 2001 was awarded with the Silver Scream award, the Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Performance by the principle main character, and Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor

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    A false protagonist is someone who is portrayed as the main character at the beginning of the film. This character is later obliterated, usually by making them a lesser character, which reveals them as the antagonist, or killing them. By saying they are a lesser character, they are slightly less relevant within the story than the protagonist. The characters of antagonists are often flat or simple, as it contrasts the development of the protagonist. This literary technique is used as a plot twist

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    in the book always have a belligerent and a victim, it is not easy to discern who amongst the two are the antagonist and the protagonist. In either of these narratives, the tragedy that occurred within the stories blurs the line between antagonist and protagonist. In Good Country People, the characters that experienced the tragedy can easily fit within either the protagonist or the antagonist box. In the story, the three main characters within the tragic event are a kind old mother, an arrogant disable

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    Dystopian Novels

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    The book features a fictional island named Utopia and all its customs. This book prompted and generated more innovative genres, including that of dystopian novels. Dystopian novels, like any other well-written novel, contain a strongly developed protagonist and a mysterious, controlling antagonist. Often, the author labels the government or leader of the corrupt society as the antagonist. The authors have a propensity to use the ignored social injustices in modern society and

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    The movie trailer which will be analyzed in this essay is titled “Furious 7” or otherwise known as “Fast and Furious 7”. It is part of the Fast and Furious film series. The movie is due to be released April 3rd 2015. Movies all have different characteristics that follow a certain genre. Genre can be defined as “groups of texts that share a set of conventional characteristics such as content, narrative structure and visual style are classified as textual types or genres.” (O’Shaugnessy and Stadler

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    instinctive reasoning and understanding of the significance of the historical concepts in the film that can be used by students and scholars to broaden their thinking. William Wallace, a young man who is openly seen as the main character, is also the protagonist. On numerous occasions, he is involved in confrontations with the English leader and army in his pursuit of the revenge mission. In his efforts to secure Scotland, however, the young Wallace faces the daunting task of overcoming Edward Longshanks

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    where the six types of characters set the tone for the story. The protagonist is usually a positive character, like the hero who saves the town from an evil fire breathing dragon. Of course, this is not always the case, as the protagonist can be the evil dragon who comes to some kind of life changing realization. The reader can usually recognize personal values or morals in

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    James Dashner is an American fiction writer who writes primarily for children and young adults. He is responsible for the Maze Runner series, and The Death Cure is one of the books in that series. He attended Brigham Young University were he studied accounting but also decided to try his hand at writing. After several attempts Dashner eventually created the book series of Jimmy Fincher. After completion of the four book series of Jimmy Fincher, Dashner started on another series of books called the

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    The protagonist is Hazel Grace Lancaster. She is a dynamic character. An example that is the fact that at the beginning of novel she wants to distance herself from society. Then she meets Augustus Waters. Augustus has the view of that everyone matters using metaphor to explain it. By the end of the novel she realizes that it's ok to let people in and that everyone will die eventually but you have live your life to the fullest. She's also a is a round character as we get a lot of insight on her option

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