Word: protagonists
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...begins to believe that happening upon a curly-haired baby spewing obscenities or a fourteen year-old version of yourself are as routine as a couple discussing opera or a phone call to a sick friend. In “Writ,” Smith’s protagonist confronts her childhood self at the dinner table, and struggles with the question of whether or not to divulge the details of her future. “I want to tell her who to trust and who not to trust; who her real good friends are and who?...
...university library, strange apparitions—phantasms, childhood memories and the Jew of Malta, among others—haunt his steps and agitate his research in compiling a biography of... himself. Circumstances run afoul when his love interest, a buxom barista with retrograde amnesia, begins to suspect that the protagonist has been brainwashed to murder his own father. Elsewhere, a cabal of petit bourgeoise candle manufacturers study the cryptic final notations of a reclusive poet-sage in search for the last prophecy of the Knights Templar. Laughter, tears and awkward stimulation await in the vaunted final climax of possibly...
...archetypes, but they are not limited to those conventions particularly because of Auden’s poetry,” she said. “They never say anything that sounds generic. Everything they say is interesting.”The basic plot line traces the downfall of the protagonist Tom Rakewell (James B. Onstad ’09), who leaves his sweetheart, Anne Trulove (Eva E.M. Schlitz ’09), and the comforts of the quiet countryside behind for the alluring delights and debauchery of London after coming into an unexpected inheritance. A mysterious character by the name...
...toward Manila Bay. In the third Rosales novel, My Brother, My Executioner, set just after World War II, the head of "the country's leading sugar family" Eduardo Dantes rents two floors to lodge the European royalty and opera singers he flies in for a party. Luis Asperri, the protagonist, is a privileged would-be poet who lives near the hotel in Ermita - at the time one of Manila's most exclusive districts. From his Spanish-style home, he soaks in those gorgeous Manila sunsets of lore with their "resplendent ochres, browns, and indigos...
Fortunately for Harvard (10-7-3, 10-4-2 ECAC), it can rely on the leadership qualities of a protagonist determined to make up for lost time...