Entry #4: Protagonist and Antagonist

Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Birdie's peach farm is broke, but she doesn't realize that. Murphy works on the farm over spring break and Murphy doesn't like Birdie that much. Birdie is shy and quiet, and even insecure. Her parents got a divorce and she's still trying to cope with that, while her dad tries to get them out of debt. Murphy might be the antagonist because she thinks one of the workers is cute, and he's also the same guy that Birdie has a crush on. Murphy has a lot of boyfriends and likes to cause trouble; she even wrote a paper about homosexual monkeys for her homophobic teacher. Both of them are kind of alone, though, and forced to go through things or do things that they don't want to, and they might help each other to save the peach farm from being taken away.
-Melissa


The Boxes by William Sleator
In the book The Boxes, Annie is a very curious girl that likes to explore various places and is quick thinker in terms of decisions that are life changing or could potentially ruin the world. Even though her uncle told her not to open the boxes, she opened them anyway because her temptation to open it was increased due to the reverse psychology placed by Uncle Marco. The antagonist, Crunchy Development Company tries to take over Annie and Henry’s House. They use every tactic available to them including stalking, bribing and spying to get them to sell the house. Their goal is to build a super mall on the old neighborhood but when they found about the clock and its powers they try to get their hands on it.
-Benmark

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In the Hunger Games, the protagonists are Katniss and Peeta. Some people think that Fox face and Kato are the antagonists, but I think that the government is the real antagonists. The people in the arena are being forced to fight, so they are not really antagonists. Katniss is the main character in the Hunger Games, and she is the one who wins the hunger games, and the one who wins along side her is Peeta, the baker’s son. The government is the one that forces the districts to live in poverty and starve each year, they also force a boy and a girl to fight in the arena each year to get food for their district. The people and the government are not similar in any way, but they are connected. Every decision the people make are based on what the government allows. The ways they are different are that the government treats people very poorly, and only care about staying in power, but Katniss has always helped people throughout her life; if it wasn’t for her, her family would be nothing. Peeta also has always given bread to Katniss when she needed it.
-Bret