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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
In any narrative, the focal character is the character on whom the audience is meant to place the majority of their interest and attention. They are almost always also the protagonist of the story; however, in cases where the "focal character" and "protagonist" are separate, the focal character's emotions and ambitions are not meant to be empathized with by the audience to as high an extent as the protagonist (this is the main difference between the two character terms). The focal character is mostly created to simply be the "excitement" of the story, though not necessarily the main character about whom the audience is emotionally concerned. The focal character is, more than anyone else, "the person on whom the spotlight focuses; the center of attention; the man whose reactions dominate the screen."[1]
For example, in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, the protagonist is Christine Daaé (the audience is concerned mostly with her emotions, aims, and well-being), while the focal character is the "Phantom" (the audience is concerned mostly with the allure of his actions and reactions—though to some degree, later on, his emotions as well).
The focal character is also not necessarily the same thing as the viewpoint character, through whose perspective the story is seen. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works of Sherlock Holmes, Watson is the viewpoint character, but the story revolves around Holmes, making him the focal character. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is the first-person narrator and protagonist, but his wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby is the center of the novel's attention, suspense, and intrigue.
| Film / Series | Protagonist | Focal character | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Chavo del Ocho | Chavo | Don Ramón | Don Ramón was the common thread that united all the characters of the neighborhood. Carlos Villagrán argument and mention: "If we take away Don Ramón, La Chilindrina is left without a father, no one pinches Quico, Doña Florinda is left with no one to hit. The Witch of '71, her reason for living in the neighborhood was Don Ramón. For Mr. Barriga, the only one who didn't pay the rent was him and El Chavo is left without a protector."[2] |
| Heroes | Peter Petrelli | Claire Bennet | Claire is the driving force of the series; the whole plot starts with the prophecy 'Save the cheerleader, save the world.' Claire is that cheerleader who, without knowing it, is at the center of everything, and her existence forces the other characters to act and interact with her storylines. |
| Pretty Little Liars | Spencer Hastings | Alison DiLaurentis | Alison is the one who starts the plot of the series. His mysterious disappearance in the first episode of the series sets the tone of intrigue and suspense that drives the plot, so his presence and story are central to the series, keeping viewers hooked as secrets are unraveled and mysteries are solved.[3] |
| 13 Reasons Why | Clay Jensen | Hannah Baker | Hannah is the one who commits suicide, and her tapes are the narrative engine that drives the whole plot. She sets the pace of the story, acts as the story's conscience, and connects the characters and the plots. |
| Riverdale (American TV series) | Archie Andrews | Betty Cooper |
Betty is the character who is always involved in the main plots and mysteries of each season, and even as the series progresses, her family becomes the central focus of the show. Even the series finale features her as the last living character and leaves us with the feeling that Betty has always been the true protagonist of the series. |
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In any narrative, the focal character is the character on whom the audience is meant to place the majority of their interest and attention. They are almost always also the protagonist of the story; however, in cases where the "focal character" and "protagonist" are separate, the focal character's emotions and ambitions are not meant to be empathized with by the audience to as high an extent as the protagonist (this is the main difference between the two character terms). The focal character is mostly created to simply be the "excitement" of the story, though not necessarily the main character about whom the audience is emotionally concerned. The focal character is, more than anyone else, "the person on whom the spotlight focuses; the center of attention; the man whose reactions dominate the screen." For example, in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, the protagonist is Christine Daaé (the audience is concerned mostly with her emotions, aims, and well-being), while the focal character is the "Phantom" (the audience is concerned mostly with the allure of his actions and reactions—though to some degree, later on, his emotions as well). The focal character is also not necessarily the same thing as the viewpoint character, through whose perspective the story is seen. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works of Sherlock Holmes, Watson is the viewpoint character, but the story revolves around Holmes, making him the focal character. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is the first-person narrator and protagonist, but his wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby is the center of the novel's attention, suspense, and intrigue.
In computing FOCAL character set refers to a group of 8-bit single byte character sets introduced by Hewlett-Packard since 1979. It was used in several RPN calculators supporting the FOCAL programming language, like the HP-41C/CV/CX as well as the later HP-42S, which was introduced in 1988 and produced up to 1995. As such, it is also used by SwissMicros' DM41/L, both introduced in 2015, and is implicitly supported by the DM42, introduced in 2017 (although the later calculator utilizes Free42, which is based on Unicode internally).
HP calculator character set refers to various calculator character sets used in calculators manufactured by Hewlett-Packard. These include: FOCAL character set, a character set used by some calculators supporting the FOCAL programming language between 1979 and 1995 Modified HP Roman-8, a variant of Hewlett-Packard's Roman-8 used on some calculators between 1986 and 2015 RPL character set, a character set used on various Hewlett-Packard RPL calculators between 1989 and 2015 Unicode, a character set used on some new calculators since 2011 (39gII, Prime)
A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.). It must be narrated by a first-person character, such as a protagonist (or other focal character), re-teller, witness, or peripheral character. Alternatively, in a visual storytelling medium (such as video, television, or film), the first-person perspective is a graphical perspective rendered through a character's visual field, so the camera is "seeing" out of a character's eyes. A classic example of a first-person protagonist narrator is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), in which the title character is telling the story in which she herself is also the protagonist: "I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me". Srikanta by Bengali writer Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay is another first-person perspective novel which is often called a "masterpiece". Srikanta, the title character and protagonist of the novel, tells his own story: "What memories and thoughts crowd into my mind, as, at the threshold of the afternoon of my wandering life, I sit down to write the story of its morning hours!" This device allows the audience to see the narrator's mind's eye view of the fictional universe, but it is limited to the narrator's experiences and awareness of the true state of affairs. In some stories, first-person narrators may relay dialogue with other characters or refer to information they heard from the other characters, in order to try to deliver a larger point of view. Other stories may switch the narrator to different characters to introduce a broader perspective. An unreliable narrator is one that has completely lost credibility due to ignorance, poor insight, personal biases, mistakes, dishonesty, etc., which challenges the reader's initial assumptions.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.