ABSTRACT
As we have begun to discover, a story is an artificially constructed sequence of events that are rooted in the actions of the main character(s), or protagonist(s), a term we will be using from now on. The word is from the Greek protagonistes, which is made up of protos, meaning ‘first’ and agonistes, meaning ‘combatant’. So our protagonist is our ‘first combatant’, the one whose journey leads the action.
