PicPicPic was straight in with a pretty definitive inventory: "A quintessential JRPG should contain the following: A spiky haired protagonist with emotional issues A cutesy sidekick, may or may not be human.
Delany won the science-fiction Nebula Award for this book, which established his reputation, and for The Einstein Intersection (1967), which features a similar protagonist and addresses issues of cultural development and sexual identity, a theme more fully developed in the author's later works.
A comparison between Jade and Alaska from John Green's Looking For Alaska jumps to mind as they both serve to "open up" the minds of the male protagonist while each having their own private issues that the protagonist wants to help them out of, giving a more deconstructed version of this trope.
A protagonist with some serious issues, who is flawed and worn down by life?
By making both protagonists men, the central issue of the film becomes the growth and development of their friendship.
Next to Syria's implosion and Egypt's secular-religious fracture, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an old, tired issue: Its protagonists weary of it, the outline of its resolution well known, the futility of its perpetuation evident.
This is a coming-of-age story, unusual for the fact that it charts the development of a female protagonist, Scout, and explores issues around racial violence, rape, and social marginality in the depression-era deep south of the United States.
2) The plotline moves to a feeble ending--it's almost as if a white writer decided how the protagonist should resolve her issues and with whom.
The next couple of issues feature the protagonists journeying through hell, "literally heading toward Satan's throne room," Fialkov said.
Both of the protagonists have deep-rooted family issues and this episode is the beginning of the exploration of that story arc.
