* In Stephen King's 1980 novel Firestarter, the protagonist chooses Rolling Stone as an unbiased independent media source, through which she can expose the government agency hunting her.

In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies.

In his introduction to the 2003 revised edition of his novel The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Stephen King revealed that the film was a primary influence for the Dark Tower series, and that Eastwood's character specifically inspired the creation of King's protagonist, Roland Deschain.

* The villanelle supposedly written by Stephen Dedalus, protagonist in Joyce's novel " Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ", beginning with the line: " Are you not weary of ardent ways ..."

The horrific nature of Scheherazade's situation is magnified in Stephen King's Misery, in which the protagonist is forced to write a novel to keep his captor from torturing and killing him.

In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the Irish poet Thomas Moore is described by the protagonist Stephen Dedalus as being " a Firbolg in the borrowed cloak of a Milesian.

Blue Eye was the home of the fictional character Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of various novels by film critic and author Stephen Hunter.

Pownal was chosen by author Stephen King as the hometown of schoolteacher Johnny Smith, protagonist of the 1979 novel The Dead Zone.

* The 1979 musical " Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street " written by Stephen Sondheim and based upon Christopher Bond's 1973 play of the same name, begins with its protagonist, Sweeney Todd, returning to London in 1846 having spent fifteen years in an unnamed British penal colony in Australia.

Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words ( pûr, meaning " fire, lightning ") and ( kínesis, meaning " motion "), was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in Firestarter.

Indie rocker Stephen Malkmus mentions Stoke-on-Trent in " Pink India ", released on his self-titled solo album, singing that the song's protagonist, Mortimer, is a " rook " in The Great Game, who " came from Stoke-on-Trent.

Agrippa is briefly mentioned in Joyce's 1916 novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, as being known to the protagonist Stephen: " A phrase of Cornelius Agrippa flew through his mind ".

Glass fictionalized his own story in The Fabulist, a 2003 novel whose protagonist is named " Stephen Aaron Glass ".

For example, Stephen King's The Dark Half has epigraphs taken from the fictitious novels written by the protagonist ; Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair has quotations from supposedly future works about the action of the story ; John Green's The Fault in Our Stars has a quotation from a fictitious novel, An Imperial Affliction, which features prominently as a part of the story.

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses.

Roland Deschain of Gilead is a fictional character, the protagonist and antihero of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

Stephen R. Donaldson's works are infused with psychological undertones involving an exploration of the darker side of the protagonist Thomas Covenant whilst preserving strong humanist ideals.

The protagonist of Stephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger Series consisting of the novels Point of Impact, Black Light, Time to Hunt and I, Sniper is loosely based on Carlos Hathcock ( Hathcock is alluded to in the book as " Gunny Sgt Carl Hitchcock ").

*" Mighty Steel Leg " Sing ( Stephen Chow ): The movie's main protagonist, he is the striker for Team Shaolin, fifth brother " Mighty Steel Leg " Sing is a master of the " Shaolin Orthodox School Mighty Steel Leg " kicking technique.

In Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, the protagonist, Roland Deschain, hails from a kingdom called Gilead, which was destroyed by John Farson.

* Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, the protagonist of a series of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson

* In Stephen King's The Dark Tower fantasy novel Song of Susannah ( 2005 ), the protagonist Odetta Holmes met Chaney and his colleagues in Oxford Town.

The band was named after the protagonist in Stephen Sondheim's Passion based upon the translation of Lawrence Venuti of the novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, 1869.

His popularity in Boston at this point led New England-based writer and Red Sox fan Stephen King to reference him as the object of infatuation for the young protagonist of the 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

* The father of the protagonist of Frederick Marryat's The King's Own was hanged for his part in the Nore mutiny.

* Much of the Dewey Lambdin novel A King's Captain is set during the Nore Mutiny as seen by the protagonist, Alan Lewrie.

* In Stephen King's first novel, Carrie ( which was made into a 1976 film ), the protagonist uses her power of telekinesis to kill her mother, who had tried to exorcise Carrie of her possession by Satan.

* Mentioned in Stephen King's novel Roadwork as favorite drink of protagonist Bart Dawes

Notably for an unofficial, fan-made project, the game's protagonist King Graham is voiced by Josh Mandel, who also voiced the part in Sierra's official CD-ROM full-speech versions of King's Quest V and VI.

King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, released in 1988, was the first major graphical computer adventure game with a female protagonist.

* The King's Fifth is a novel by Scott O ' Dell in which the protagonist is accused of stealing the King's Fifth.

As in many of Stephen King's works, the protagonist of the story is a writer, Mike Enslin, who writes non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places.

The adventure novel exhibits these " protagonist on adventurous journey " characteristics as do many popular feature films, such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In Baxter's novel, Aurelianus is a minor character who interacts with the book's main Roman-era protagonist, Regina, founder of an ( literally ) underground matriarchal society.

At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

* Christian, the protagonist in John Bunyan's novel The Pilgrim's Progress

The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.

Despite condemning the ' Mahometans ' as infidels, he viewed the protagonist of the novel, Hayy, as a model for his ideal Christian philosopher and monotheistic scientist '.

An example of silicon based life forms takes place in the Alan Dean Foster novel Sentenced to Prism in which the protagonist Evan Orgell is trapped on a planet whose entire ecosystem is mostly silicon-based.

Alonso Quijano, the protagonist of the novel, is a retired country gentleman nearing fifty years of age, living in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and housekeeper.

Philip Roth titled the second chapter of his novel " The Ghost Writer " Nathan Dedalus, after the novel's young protagonist Nathan Zuckerman.

* Haki Stërmilli's novel If I Were a Boy ( 1936 ) is written in the form of diary entries which documents the life of the main protagonist.

Saga's grandson, Minamoto no Tōru, is thought to be an inspiration for the protagonist of the novel The Tale of Genji.

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

* Douglass is the protagonist of the novel Riversmeet ( Richard Bradbury, Muswell Press, 2007 ), a fictionalized account of his 1845 speaking tour of the British Isles.

Coming Up for Air, his last novel before World War II is the most ' English ' of his novels ; alarums of war mingle with images of idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood of protagonist George Bowling.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

* Glaucus, the protagonist in the novel The Last Days of Pompeii

) The literary technique applied in telling the story is Bildungsroman, which is a type of novel concerned with the moral and psychological growth of the protagonist.

* Katie Scarlett ( O ' Hara ) Hamilton Kennedy Butler: The protagonist of the novel, Scarlett's forthright Irish blood is always at variance with the French teachings of style from her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

In the Mouth of Madness took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the madman he was hired to track down.

* In A. J. Cronin's novel, A Pocketful of Rye, the protagonist Carroll reads the poem as a young man, forgets it, and suffers from a recurring nightmare that finally leads to his conversion.

* Joshua is a main protagonist in Matthew Woodring Stover's novel Jericho Moon.

Typically but not always, the protagonist of a wuxia novel will become this leader and command the actions of wulin.

La Malinche is the main protagonist in such works as the novel Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest by Colin Falconer, and The Golden Princess by Alexander Baron.