why is it necessary to pick one person to be your protagonist? Your Protagonist’s Brain Is Your Reader’s Portal The answer brings us right back to why we’re wired for story. The world is teeming with things that happen, and on most days, especially before that first cup of coffee, it sure looks like chaos out there. Our survival depends on making sense of the particular chaos we call home—not in the general “objective” sense we hear so much about, but in the much more practical, subjective, how-will-this-affect-me-personally sense.
