HUM Genre Study discussion

In this post I would like 10th grade genre study students to think of their favorite protagonist (hero/main character) and antagonist (villain). Identify what book/film they are from and explain why their actions are heroic or villainous.

Protagonist - Caddy Compson, from The Sound and the Fury

Though we are only told about Caddy through the words of others, she is the central figure of the novel. She is the oldest of four children growing up in the Mississippi. Her parents stay relatively uninvolved in their children's' lives and as a result she pretty much raises her brothers. She is particularly fond of her brother Benji, who is mentally handicapped and requires constant supervision. She is forced to leave her family after she brings 'disgrace' upon the house and with her departure, the Compson family slowly begins to crumble. What makes Caddy such a heroic figure is that even though she takes constant abuse from her mother, father and younger brother Jason, she never takes her anger out on others. She fights for her opinions and, even though she is ultimately forced to leave the family homestead, her years of support helped keep the family thriving throughout the majority of her life.

Antagonist - Dr. Hannibal Lechter, The Silence of the Lambs

Even though he is not the immediate villain of the novel, he is a tremendously compelling character who is crucial to he development of he story. A former psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lechter was a serial killer who was eventually captured by the very FBI agent he often helped to track down and capture other serial killers. Currently serving a life sentence, he assists young FBI trainee Clarice Starling track down a new killer. Though his insights are professionally helpful, he demands unusual pay for his services, all the time seeking ways to escape his prison and seek retribution on the prison psychiatrist who mentally abuses him.

Aaron - The Fallen series
He is my favorite protagonist because he starts off as a normal guy but after finding out that his father is an angel and his mother was human woman his world is turned upside down. He has to change fast and be the best in order to survive what is after him. Throughout all of the books him, his companions and his dog Gabriel,of course, he has to save his kind, The Nephilim, the Fallen Angels and The World.

Verchiel - The Fallen series
He is my favorite antagonist because he starts off as an evil guy and does so many horrible things to humans and the half angels because he thinks it's what 'GOD' wants. Although he has killed a lot of Gods creations he has a chance to redeem himself ( In The Fourth and Fifth Books ). He has ruined a lot of families but he'll make it up to them by saving the world with the help of Aaron and others.

My favorite protagonist is Jim because his life is wavy he is nice in basketball and gets ladies. My favorite antagonist are the socs because they are people that want to protect their land. They respect one another even thought they do bad things like fighting and oing drugs

My favorite protagonist in a movie was dave in the movie kickass because he was a wanna-be hero that nobody believed in but ended up actually doing things no one could ever imagine. He goes around his city to stop crime in his amateur ways. Even though he kills people to get the job done I believe he is the good guy cuz he's doing a good deed for his people.
Also my favorite antagonist is from kickass also, Chris D'Mico . He's my favorite because he wasn't always a bad guy. He was a good guy that slowly transformed to a bad guy. He started of as a normal kid. When Dave aka kickass became kickass it inspired to be a hero too. But in his dad's business there are no good guys. So to impress his dad he decided to become the first villain to go public. Hidden identity of course.

My favorite protagonist is probably Agustus and hazel from the fault in our stars and the antagonist is cancer.

Supernatural (the TV Show):

My favorite protagonist is Bobby Singer because he took care of two children who weren't even his children, but of his hunter friend, John Winchester. And he always stood by their side anyway, even by all the mistakes both Dean and Sam made. And even when he remained in a wheelchair for a short period of time, he didn't give up on his two boys and helped them. Even when he was still hurt right after he killed his wife because she was possessed by a demon, he remained strong, and that's what I loved about his character, he remained strong even though he was broken in the inside or outside.

My favorite antagonist, out of all, will probably be Lucifer because he was really a funny in his own way, character, and he was a very gritty one. The things he done to have his vessel, Sam Winchester, was really crazy, and he kept it really macabre. And the way he tried to reason with Michael, his brother the arch angel, that he hadn't done anything bad to be casted down to hell. He claimed that God gave him the wrong punishment to his crime, and he had said it in a way that was very persuasive, that at some point I was on his side. Simply because he claimed to be misunderstood, the freak. And so that's what I liked about his evil character, that he had a very strong edgy passion.

Michael from Burn Notice is one of my favorite protagonist from that television show. He take son jobs that the police nor any other person van handle. People hire him to find the bad guys and send them to jail. Michael saves people from being hurt/ killed. The way he completes these jobs is amazing. He does it with a lot of action.
Mr. Harvey from lovely bones is one of my favorite antagonist. He played the character from lovely bones who kidnaps the main characters rapes and kill her. He tricks her in his underground tunnel. When she tries to leave he keeps her trapped in there while her parents are out there looking for her.