Always love your stuff, Mr. Sato! I am a teacher too, and you and I seem to say the EXACT same things - I just discovered your channel about 6 months ago - thanks for putting the time and effort into making these videos!
Thank you! I've never been to Northern part of your state, but I drove through MInneapolis/St. Paul one summer thirty years ago on a cross-country road trip. Beautiful country.
Maybe not in the movies, but in the original comics, he was a ruthless avenger who murdered bad guys. www.cbr.com/every-comic-book-batman-kills-in-order/
Stereotypes are just a form of inductive reasoning. As long as there's no moral prohibition on using stereotypes in a particular context, like race, for example, then there's no reason not to use them.
Well, one flaw here is that a protagonist is NOT the "good guy." You can have a main or central character who is morally corrupt. Still the main character but definitely not "good." The same holds true for the antagonist. Most times in literature the antagonist is not even a human being, let alone "bad." An antagonist is simply anything or anyone that works against the main character and causes internal or external conflict; feelings or emotions, forces of nature, expected societal norms, religion, etc. Teachers please stop adding "good guy" and "bad guy" when you talk about elements of characterization.
I confess that I'm being prescriptive rather than descriptive. That's what those words should mean. Isn't there greater utility having protagonist and main character not be exact synonyms? Raskolnikov is a main character, but it feels wrong to call him a protagonist. Just my opinion. I don't expect every teacher to agree with me, but thanks for sharing your perspective!
