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Discover LudwigThe phrase "second protagonist" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when talking about a story or narrative that has two main characters or protagonists. It implies that there are two equally important characters in the story. Example: In the novel, "Gone Girl," the second protagonist, Nick Dunne, is just as complex and multi-layered as the first protagonist, his missing wife Amy.
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The film's second protagonist, Mélanie, is an earnest redhead who lives in a Paris suburb with her mother.
Halliday abruptly leaves the muddled Alice behind in favour of a seemingly unrelated second protagonist: Amar Jaafari is an Iraqi-American detained by immigration officials at a London airport.
If Jacir began as Soraya, the immigrant in America who returns east, she perhaps now feels more kinship with her second protagonist – the boy in the camp, close yet exiled.
Although a fan of Wallander, his idea – to create four stand-alone films featuring a conflicted police detective roaming an atmospheric woodland landscape that would act as a second protagonist – came prior to all knowledge of The Bridge and The Killing.
The second protagonist, Fiona, is a soldier of the White Army of Guinevere, who saved her life.
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And yet, like his very first protagonist, Morvern Callar, Follana has moved strangely beyond sexuality.
Timothy Cavendish, Cloud Atlas's fourth protagonist, also has a short scene in Ghostwritten.
Indeed, hair is practically the book's third protagonist after Ifemelu and her high-school sweetheart Obinze.
In this it matches the personality of its third protagonist, Mariza Estrella, the school's tough-minded founder.
Ms Orford suggests that the case in fact involves a third protagonist, "the threatening body, nameless and faceless, of an armed and dangerous black intruder".
He was the first protagonist I filmed for 'Shoah,' but I didn't know how to fit him into the film.
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