A-HOW DO THE CONFLICTS MAKE THE PROTAGONIST HEROIC?

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DEFINE PROTAGONIST

DEFINE HERO

DEFINE CONFLICT

THERE ARE TWO PROTAGONISTS

• Rex
• Jack

WHY ARE THERE TWO PROTAGONISTS?

REX

• Young boy
• Age:12
• 6th grade
• Lives in Kettle Creek, New Zealand
• Lives with mom, dad, and sister (Gloria)

REX

1ST PASSAGE TO SHOW THAT REX IS ONE OF THE PROTAGONISTS

• Rex is telling the story about how Jackson is the most important person in his life.
• "Jackson Coop changed my life."
• "Jackson and the things that happened in those two weeks in February 1943."
• Page:2

2ND PASSAGE TO SHOW THAT REX IS ONE OF THE PROTAGONISTS

• Rex is thinking about who is going to stay at their house for the next couple of days.
• "I ran down the walk with the pail, wondering who was coming tonight."
• "People always sharing my room, friends of dad's from Auckland mostly, caught in Kettle Creek for the night.
• Page:6

THE CONFLICT THAT REX IS HAVING

• He does not like Jackson at the beginning of the book.
• "I hated them because they always came to cook up deals with dad."
• Page:6
• "Last came out our American soldier. He was a negro."
• Page:39

HOW DOES THE CONFLICT MAKE REX HEROIC?

• Even though Rex does not like Jack at first he was still nice to him.
• Jack needed supplies and Rex got them for him, even though there was a chance he would get in trouble.
• "Do you need tools?" "Yeah could use some, Rex."
• Page:157

JACK

• Wounded American soldier
• Man
• African American

JACK

PASSAGES THAT SHOWS THAT JACK IS A PROTAGONIST

• "Kettle Creek's the best thing that ever happened to me."
• Showing that Jack really had a good time in Kettle Creek.
• Page:183
• "His fingers dug into the muscle of Marv's arm and sent him tumbling away."
• Jack tries everything he can do to keep Gloria safe. Page:118

FIRST OF JACK'S MANY CONFLICTS

• First he is an African American
• Marv does not like Jack and is trying very hard to get him out of town.
• "As Marv went past us he reached down and grabbed my BB gun."
• "He stood up, straddle legged, and aimed at Jack."
• Page:110

ANOTHER CONFLICT JACK HAS

• He does not want to go back to the war.
• The night before he had to go back he did not sleep at all.
• "I'm (Rex) not sure that Jack slept at all that night."
• Page:134

HOW DOES THE CONFLICTS MAKE JACK HEROIC?

• Being African American and people not liking him because of it.
• He wasn't going to let anybody push him around or tell him what to do because of it.
• "Pick that up boy," said Marv. Rex went to pick it up, when Marv said "not you, the nigra."
• Jack did not move. That made Marv redder, So Jack just decided to leave instead of getting in a fight.
• Pages:100-101

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013."
• "Gee, Maurice. The Champion. New York: Simon & Schuster for Young Readers,1993. Print."