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Antagonist In The Kite Runner

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Antagonist? Protagonist? In every fictional book, there are a lot of antagonists and protagonists, but are antagonists always bad? Or are protagonists always good? I want to prove that not all antagonists are bad, and shouldn’t be hated all the time. For example, Darth Vader is a dynamic character that changes throughout the whole book. Is he always bad? No, he saved his son, whom is the protagonist of the story. The character who I want to talk about is Ava Paige. Ava Paige is a female character who is in the Maze Runner series (The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The death cure, and the fourth book is going to be published soon). She is an anti-hero that leads the group called the WICKED. The WICKED is trying to find the cure of the deadly disease that might end the human race. She is an antagonist in a book and she forces other people to do an experiment, the experiment to cure the deadly disease.

The fiction book series Maze Runner is set in the future when a lot of people have died because of the deadly disease from Sun’s radiation. Ava Paige and WICKED is trying to find the cure of this deadly disease. The WICKED decided to do a several evil experiment. These experiments have killed, and injured a lot of people and Ava Paige directed all this. By now you must have asked, “How is this woman a good antagonist? She’s really evil,” yes I …show more content…

She looks at the entire human race rather than just few people. The author made us to compare her and all the other protagonists. If she is compared with other good characters, of course she is an evil character. That’s how I feel empathy to her. She is always hated by people and she knows that. She does evil experiment for human race. You can say that she could have as well just put her on an experiment. You are correct, but you forgot that she is the leader. If you were the leader you wouldn’t risk your life right? Just think about it what I

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