Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

The One Who Is The One

As an evil dictator known for executing children and personally seeing to the imprisonment of Whit and Wisty, The One Who Is The One is pretty freaking antagonistic. There's just one tiny crack in this façade: At the end of the book, The One Who Is The One makes a speech to Whit that throws his "antagonist" status into question. He asks, "Am I a friend or foe—or a little of each?" (98.16). We can't answer that question definitively, but time will certainly tell as the series unfolds. For now, though, he's definitely the antagonist in this book.