Both Uses
protagonist
in
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
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- Opening the novel with the suicidal leap of the insurance agent, ending it with the protagonist's confrontational soar into danger, was meant to enclose the mystical but problematic one taken by the Solomon of the title.†
Chpt Frwd. *
- The sentence starts with "North Carolina" and closes with "Lake Superior"—geographical locations that suggest a journey from south to north—a direction common for black immigration and in the literature about it, but which is reversed here since the protagonist has to go south to mature.†
Chpt Frwd.
Definitions:
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(1)
(protagonist) the main character in a work of fiction
or more rarely:
an important supporter or main figure of someone or something - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)