MOST Important?

Hi all,

relating to what Mrs. Nazima talked to 6/11 abt today - what defines the M.I.C. (is it necessarily the Main character?) - these are my views. Feel free to comment or post your own entries.

Well, I think that the Most Important Character ought to be either two characters of the story:
1. the narrator
or
2. the main character

Reasons?
Well, I shall firstly refer to #1 - the narrator. The narrator is, after all, the person who tells the story. If the story is written from a first person account, a.k.a the narrator is in the story itself, all his (or her) feelings, emotions, thoughts and actions are vividly decribed in the story, because it is HIS (or her) point of view. Of course, this only applies to good narratives. Bad ones don't usually have feelings inside (that's exactly why they're called bad.)
So anyway, since all these details are included through the narrator, the narrator is important. Otherwise, it wll be tougher allowing the reader to really experience the events in the story individually.

As for the #2 character - the Main character. He (or she) should be 95% of the time, the M.I.C.
The reason is that that person is actually the central figure of the story itself. The story usally follows or trails the mentioned events in the life of the character through the story. So, the story actually somehow revolves around the main character. Everything about him is closely followed and described. This is why he (or she) is so very important to the story. This is the main person included in the plot of the story, and he (or she) is also the one who is most commomnly mentioned in the story.

Tks for reading.

Entry by Rachel