The demonic monkey in " Green Tea " could be a delusion of the story's protagonist, who is the only person to see it ; in " The Familiar ", Captain Barton's death seems to be supernatural, but is not actually witnessed, and the ghostly owl may be a real bird.

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

* Nell ( Nellodee ) — The story's protagonist, from the viewpoint of the novel as a coming-of-age story.

Although the protagonist is often referred to as the " good guy ", it is entirely possible for a story's protagonist to be the clear villain, or antihero, of the piece.

The antagonist may be the story's hero ; for example, where the protagonist is a criminal, the antagonist could be a law enforcement agent that tries to capture him.

The story has been the subject of two film adaptations, 1990's Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story's protagonist ; and 2012's same-titled remake with Colin Farrell in the same role.

The 1933 short story The People's Choice by Erskine Caldwell is set in Washington County, where the story's protagonist is a popular local politician elected again and again as the county's tax assesor.

The story's protagonist, Tung Chien, is a party bureaucrat in Vietnam in a future where Chinese-style communism has triumphed over the entire world.

In later books Zuckerman is given a less indentured form of existence, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist, a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff.

work is the choice of a very ordinary man as the story's protagonist, rather than the more typical space opera hero.

" Rip Van Winkle " is a short story by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix and their final days in Deva ( Chester ) in the early 400's AD form the backdrop to the Tom Stevens mythic-fiction genre novel ' The Cauldron ' ( special edition ) with the story's protagonist Valerian-the Praefectus and Chief Centurion defending the city with the rump of the legion against the incursions of Hibernian pirates as the ' Dark Ages ' settle on Britannia

Generations later, the story's protagonist, Setne Khamwas, steals the book from Neferkaptah's tomb despite opposition from Neferkaptah's ghost.

After the story's protagonist moves to a suburban residence, she notices increasingly uncharacteristic behavior by the other women in her community.

Miles Coverdale: The story's protagonist and narrator, Coverdale is a simple observer of the activities of the Blithedale farm.

In Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo, released on January 21, 1994, and in its 2010 remake Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyū, Marth reprised his role as the story's protagonist.

Maximillian " Max " Cohen ( Sean Gullette ), the story's protagonist and unreliable narrator, is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers.

Interactive Storytelling is a form of digital entertainment in which users create or influence a dramatic storyline through actions, either by issuing commands to the story's protagonist, or acting as a general director of events in the narrative.

* Newland Archer: The story's protagonist is a young, popular, successful lawyer living with his mother and sister in an elegant New York City house.

* Helena Campbell, portrayed by Stephanie Leonidas, is the story's protagonist.

The story's protagonist, Vash the Stampede, is a wandering gunslinger carrying a silver revolver and a dark past.

Pip the Troll was introduced by Jim Starlin in Strange Tales vol 2 # 179 ( Feb 1975 ) to be a comic foil to the story's main protagonist, Adam Warlock.

The story's primary protagonist is Colonel Forbin.

Inspired by the story's main character, the sorcerer now called himself Felix Faust and began a never-ending quest for mystical knowledge.

Several of the story's occurrences and places were derived from Peter Gabriel's dreams, and the protagonist's name is a play on his surname.

The versatility of structuralism is such that a literary critic could make the same claim about a story of two friendly families (" Boy's Family + Girl's Family ") that arrange a marriage between their children despite the fact that the children hate each other (" Boy-Girl ") and then the children commit suicide to escape the arranged marriage ; the justification is that the second story's structure is an ' inversion ' of the first story's structure: the relationship between the values of love and the two pairs of parties involved have been reversed.

In the story's first half, Meursault is an unperceptive man, existing only via sensory experience ( the funeral procession, swimming in the sea, sleeping with his girlfriend ).

The story's first appearance in any source other than Matthew is in the 2nd-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James of c. 150 AD, which excludes the Flight into Egypt and switches the attention of the story to the infant John the Baptist:

Charlton Heston showed little interest in reprising his role as George Taylor from the first movie, but agreed to briefly appear with the provision that Taylor be killed at the story's start and that, instead of being paid, the producers donate money to charity.

During that period, he also edited Grosset & Dunlap's Science Fiction Classics series, which he conceived as an inexpensive alternative to hard-to-find small-press editions of such titles as Robert A. Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, although the first title in the series ( Henry Kuttner's Fury ) was that story's first book publication.

This being slowly infiltrates the life of the story's narrator, first via a manuscript describing its cult.

The story's legacy, coupled with Barks ' own love for it, made it launch the first The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library volume.

Sometimes this appears to be a deliberate switch: The Brothers Grimm, having put in their first editions versions of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel where the villain was the mother, altered it to a stepmother in later editions, perhaps to mitigate the story's violence.

The story's recording became the first comedy album to sell over 1 million copies.

Despite such criticism, the reception that met She was overwhelmingly positive and echoed the sentiments expressed by anthropologist and literary critic Andrew Lang before the story's first publication: " I think She is one of the most astonishing romances I ever read.

The Horse and His Boy is the only Narnia book which does not feature children from our world as the story's main characters, although the adult Queen Lucy, Queen Susan, and King Edmund ( all of whom first appear in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ) do appear in the book, and the dynamics of the story develop from Susan's interactions.

The first known association with rockets was in the 1929 German science fiction movie Die Frau im Mond ( English: Woman in the Moon ) by Fritz Lang to increase the drama of the launch sequence of the story's lunar rocket.

This version omitted the original episode divisions, and included a new opening and closing narration for the first two sets, and an opening narration only for the last, written by Sibley and performed by Ian Holm as Frodo Baggins-Frodo's narrations deal with his efforts to write his historical account of the War of the Ring in the Red Book, as well as his own personal reflections and musings on the story's events.

Throughout the story's progress, he transgresses the boundaries of acceptable behavior for love of Ellen: first following her to Skuytercliff, then Boston, and finally willing to follow her to Europe.

The letterer crafts the comic's " display lettering ": the story title lettering and other special captions and credits that usually appear on a story's first page.

While the first three may be ( and usually were ) taken as Doctor Who by another name, the departure here of the Miss Brown character ( for which Nicola Bryant had not used her Peri Brown American accent ) and the Stranger himself being likewise " returned to his proper time and place " at the story's conclusion allowed for a move to divorce the series from any such notions.

The short story's first edition was called Allergorhai-Horhai, but later, after Yefremov's visit to Mongolia, he changed the name to the original Mongolian spelling " Olgoi-Khorkhoi ".

Ms. FitzGerald, who made a strong first impression in Hear My Song, is again a forceful presence, even when acting out the story's giddy erotic fantasies.

Because of this story's significance as the first Shadow story, it has been reprinted more times than any other Shadow tale.

The text of " The Assistant Producer " contained in Nabokov's Congeries omits the story's final two paragraphs, which had apparently been inadvertently dropped from all English-language editions of the story subsequent to the first.

While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction " and " arguably the first major work of American science fiction ".

Vawter embodied Philoktetes three times in Jan Ritsema's triptych in the Brussels ' Kaaitheater in 1994, using his own body naked and covered with purple Kaposi rash, thus making the connection between the performance's " here and now " and the story's " there and then " as well as between life and death, subject and abject in his first audience address when he said that he was suffering from aids: I am dying, I am on my way to the grave but am just doing this performance on the way.