In this excerpt from "How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune", Jack can be best named as the protagonist due to the characteristics Jack displays throughout the text. Jack's ability to make friends along the journey and ultimately use them for positive, proves the strategic and helpful personality traits that protagonists usually possess. However, even though Jack is the protagonist, the author does not go into much detail about Jack's background story, making this particular protagonist quite static. This fairytale starts out and says, " Once on a time there was a boy named Jack, and one morning he started to go and seek his fortune." This is one example of Jack's static character qualities. The author allows readers to know that Jack is going …show more content…
For example, readers can imply that Jack is a bright boy due to the strategy it took to get rid of the robbers that had infiltrated the house Jack was planning on sleeping in that night. The text explicitly states, " Jack went back and told them to wait till he gave the word, and then to make all the noise they could. So when they were all ready Jack gave the word, and the cat mewed, and the dog barked, and the goat bleated, and the bull bellowed, and the rooster crowed, and all together they made such a dreadful noise that it frightened the robbers all away. And then they went in and took possession of the house." This example, provided from the text, displays Jack's quick thinking and strategic traits. Another personality trait readers can infer from the text is, Jack's ability to make friends. Throughout the first day of the journey, Jack meets a cat, dog, bull, rooster, and goat. Each animal Jack meets joins the journey to find Jack's fortune. An example of Jack meeting and adding a friend to the journey can be found in the beginning of the excerpt, and it says, " He hadn’t gone very far before he met a cat. “Where are you going, Jack?” said the cat. “I am going to seek my fortune.” “May I go with you?” “Yes,” said Jack, “the more the merrier.” So on they went, jiggelty-jolt, jiggelty-jolt." This exact