It is undeniable that children literatures are consider as best tools to socialize a children in a society. Author use different methods like characters, themes and illustrations to provide knowledge and skills to understand a literature world that is similar to the real world. Children come to know how to survive in the society. Similarly, implementation of antagonist in children’s literature is a method that inculcate ability in children to fight for their rights and fight for goals that they want to achieve. So, Antagonist is a term in the children literature that resist the protagonist to achieve his goal. Antagonist plays very important role to develop character or protagonist character, bring climax in story and make the story interesting. …show more content…
So, inability or lack of ability to get something acts as an antagonist. Let’s understand it with an example, Tina who is Margaret mother, she never speak in front of his Husband, but she raised her voice for Margaret (Phillips, 134). Here fear was acts as an antagonist. She fights against her fear of husband and raised voice for the right of her daughter. Another example, Jesse does not like Leslie when they met first time to each other. Here is two internal antagonist, first is gender and second is mentality of Jesse. Jesse does not consider she is an appropriate friend for him. Even, she also demolish his dream of faster runner. Finally, Leslie efforts and her friendly behavior wins Jesse and they become a very good friends (Paterson). Let’s understand it with one more example, when Zulma tell the Harriet that shell missed her grandmother and wanted to go back in his country. Harriet (Margaret) decided to help her friend Zulma on same day. Although she was 16 year old children and she did not have power but she never lose her courage. First, she convinced her mother to help Zulma with help of Mrs.Billing. Then, they all women plan to send Zulma back and Harriet took step against her father. Finally, she get success to bring zulma back to Tobago after facing many …show more content…
Sometimes readers do not think about turning point, and this turning point brings a suspense in the story. Climax could be arise due to one antagonist or group of antagonist. Ether antagonist could be one of them internal, human and environmental or all. One day, Jesse go out with Miss Edmunds. When he came back to home and Brenda said "Your girlfriend’s dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too."(Paterson, 60). First Jess did not believe Leslie has died while she was swinging through rope to reach “Terabithia” and rope break and she fell down and die but later he had to believe. The rope which was a bridge to reach “Terabithia” world acts as antagonist. Here two suspense arise, first, Jesse lost his friend Leslie and he could not do magic in “Terabithia” without Leslie. She was only his friend who was the creator of “Terabithia”. Second is that who will do magic with “Terabithia” world because Jesse cannot do that. These type question will occur in the mind of reader and make the story interesting for reader. Sometime readers start guessing of next part of story. Children novels get more attractive for reader and read stories with more
In most stories we enjoy, may it be from childhood or something more recent there is many times a theme that shows a clear hero and a clear villain. But ordinarily this is not the case in real life, there are few times that this is quite that simple. There are many sides to each story, and sometimes people turn a blind eye to, or ignore the opposing side’s argument. But if we look at both sides of a situation in the stories we can more clearly understand what is going on, moreover the villains in the book or play would seem more real, instead of a horrible person being evil for no reason, these two people have their own agenda may it be a ruthless vengeance or misplaced trust.
The antagonist in the story is Abner Snobes. Abner Snobes is a very angry and inconsiderate man who has hate and detestation for almost anybody who is not “blood-kin”, and he portrays that hatred and contempt throughout the story (qtd. In Volpe 163).
Has a Story ever made a reader want to hurt the character responsible for trouble that’s being caused? Of course; usually the antagonist is often the nuisance. Richard Connell creates these instigative characters with pleasure and diversity. In his story “The Most Dangerous Game”, He Creates General Zaroff so that he is easy to hold a grudge against. Likewise Edgar Allan Poe Creates a character that is easy to hate. In his short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe creates a mastermind killer. Connells antagonist, General Zaroff, and Poe’s antagonist, Montresor, give the reader an invitation to hate them. These two characters are similar yet different in their evil persona, wealth, and challenge.
Typically, a novel contains four basic parts: a beginning, middle, climax, and the end. The beginning sets the tone for the book and introduces the reader to the characters and the setting. The majority of the novel comes from middle where the plot takes place. The plot is what usually captures the reader’s attention and allows the reader to become mentally involved. Next, is the climax of the story. This is the point in the book where everything comes together and the reader’s attention is at the fullest. Finally, there is the end. In the end of a book, the reader is typically left asking no questions, and satisfied with the outcome of the previous events. However, in the novel The Things They Carried the setup of the book is quite different. This book is written in a genre of literature called “metafiction.” “Metafiction” is a term given to fictional story in which the author makes the reader question what is fiction and what is reality. This is very important in the setup of the Tim’s writing because it forces the reader to draw his or her own conclusion about the story. However, this is not one story at all; instead, O’Brien writes the book as if each chapter were its own short story. Although all the chapters have relation to one another, when reading the book, the reader is compelled to keep reading. It is almost as if the reader is listening to a “soldier storyteller” over a long period of time.
In a country like the United States of America, with a history of every individual having an equal opportunity to reach their dreams, it becomes harder and harder to grasp the reality that equal opportunity is diminishing as the years go on. The book Our Kids by Robert Putnam illustrates this reality and compares life during the 1950’s and today’s society and how it has gradually gotten to a point of inequality. In particular, he goes into two touching stories, one that shows the changes in the communities we live in and another that illustrates the change of family structure. In the end he shows how both stories contribute to the American dream slipping away from our hands.
antagonist; whether to act according to his feelings and instincts, or to try to follow the
...it up to each reader to draw their own conclusions and search their own feelings. At the false climax, the reader was surprised to learn that the quite, well-liked, polite, little convent girl was colored. Now the reader had to evaluate how the forces within their society might have driven such an innocent to commit suicide.
...iminals who do what they are told, they have quick tempers and have no difficulty drawing their guns in order to kill someone. They are antagonists because they will do anything in order to get the Maltese Falcon for Spade and O’Shaughnessy.
end. This essay will further show how both stories shared similar endings, while at the same time
In most works of literature there is an “evil” character that has conflicting interests with the protagonist. This issue may arise in multiple forms including, but not limited to, abuse and manipulation. In this paper we will be discussing the similarities and differences between Shakespeare’s character Iago from Othello and J.K. Rowling’s character Voldemort from the Harry Potter series.
story as the corruption of evil takes a prominent role in the story of the two children. The
...e grandmother and her family. Although O’Connor uses foreshadowing from the beginning of the story, she never directly reveals the story’s ending. By understanding O’Connor’s usage of foreshadowing, the reader can further understand the development leading toward the story’s climax.
In both Ann Petry’s “Like a Winding Sheet” and Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” the protagonist is also the antagonist. In the story, Like a Winding Sheet its Mae’s husband, Johnson, and in the story Desiree’s Baby it’s Desiree’s husband, Armand. In the beginning of both stories their husband seem to be loving, caring husbands who would never hurt their family. Then, the stories turn in a twist when the husband became insolent and angry toward their wives, but they were feeling furious towards themselves. Johnson was repeatedly getting abused from the outside world and in his mind and he starts to espouse a dismissive image that turned to anger against his wife and eventually he kills her. Armand was angry at his wife because his son turned out
In psychology, the term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological harm to oneself, others or objects in the environment. Aggression can take on a variety of forms, including: physical, verbal, mental, and emotional. Aggression can also serve a number of different purposes such as asserting dominance, to intimidate or threaten, or to express anger or hostility. Everyone has experienced anger at one point in their lives and some of us have channeled that anger into violence, perhaps by throwing a punch during a heated argument or after too many beers at the bar. Then there's aggression on an greater scale, in the form of murder, wars and genocide. Trying to understand what fuels the different levels of human aggression, from fist fights to nation-on-nation battle, has long preoccupied human biologists.
Behaviorism is a classic psychology approach to understanding an organism's social and cognitive skills. This field of psychology focuses on observable behavior including measuring types of communication and natural mannerisms. It is important to understand how individuals present and express themselves in their natural environments in order to recognize and further advance knowledge about psychological disorders. When it comes to determining and labeling psychological disorders, especially behavioral disorders, it can be tricky to make the correct diagnosis. Psychologists have to assess all of the characteristics and symptoms an individual possesses and stick to textbook definitions when it comes to properly formulating a diagnosis.