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Is It Possible For Your Protagonist To Get What He Wants At The Beginning Of The Story Without Him Being Obligated To Make That Thing Be A Bad Thing At The End Of The Story? - Question/Answer Now Playing

Is It Possible For Your Protagonist To Get What He Wants At The Beginning Of The Story Without Him Being Obligated To Make That Thing Be A Bad Thing At The End Of The Story?

Aug 04, 2010

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henrymann
henrymann: Huck Finn
at Aug 04, 2010 - 4:01 PM
At the start of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn wanted and got freedom from people who tried to sivilize him and at the end he still wanted that freedom. “But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”

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