are there antagonists and protagonists in all books? need help?

Question

WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD BOOK TO WRITE A SECOND GRADER

Answer 1

I like to believe that there are always antagonists and protagonist in every plot. The antagonist does not need to be human. It can be any central force that has a great effect on the protagonist whether it be a mental issue or physical issue. For example, the antagonist could very well be nature when the central plot of a story revolves around a man being swept a way by a tornado everyday that he wakes up. Wierd plot but it works.

Answer 2

Yes, if there are two characters in the book who are having some sort of issue that needs to be resolved. But there are many stories and books that have only one character.
The protagonist is the main character and the antagonist is the character who causes a change in the protagonist. Some teachers tell students that the protagonist is the "good guy" and the antagonist is the "bad guy"...this is irritating to me because the antagonist is not always a negative influence on the main character.

Answer 3

There's always going to be a protagonist: s/he's the main character. For the antagonist, there usually is one, with the exception of philisophic dialogues, which are two people talking. Sometimes the protagonist isn't a good guy, but has some traits which make the reader feel sympathy for the character, like Horrible Harry, or Junie P Jones, they aren't really "heroes" or "good guy's", but we still like them.

Answer 4

That is what makes a book interesting - the inclusion of antagonists and protagonists.

Although for a second-grade level, the plot should be simplified immensely.

Answer 5

Nonfiction books and poetry don't have antagonists and protagonists.

What ever you write about, talk to your publisher about an accelerated reader test or school children can't read the book and most school libraries will not buy them.

Answer 6

Not necessarily, but in most conventional stories there is at least one antagonist and at least one protagonists.

But that's just stories, if you are saying books in general, there are cooking books, poetry books, history books, books of music, record keeping books for accounting, do it yourself books, etc.

Answer 7

Yes, but occassionaly the antagonist is not necessarily a person. There's 3 classic match-ups:

man against man
man against nature
man against himself

Answer 8

there's not always both but there's usually always a protagonist and that's usually the main character of the book.

Answer 9

gosh well, you can have a book with only one character in it, but they could somehow play both roles...i'd say a book without both would be potentially very boring!