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All literature is about conflict between two forces, the protagonist (the hero, the good guy) and the antagonist or antagonists (the villains or bad guys). Sometimes the antagonist isn't a person: it can be fate, the universe, God, the Devil. The antagonist can even be the protagonist (in a story where the conflict is between man and himself). But whoever or whatever the antagonist is, he/it is there to cause a problem for the protagonist. This problem, and the solving of it, is the story.

You wouldn't want to read a story where there is no conflict to resolve. It's boring. Who wants to read a story about a character just going about their daily life, waking up, going to work, coming home, watching TV, etc. That's not a story; that's just a written account of someone's existence.

What makes a story interesting -- what makes a story a story, in fact -- is that early on in the story, the protagonist is presented with a problem, a conflict between himself and an opposing force, and he spends the rest of the story trying to solve it. In essence, that is all a story is: setting up a conflict, and having your lead character or characters resolve it.

Typically, the first half of the story is about setting up the conflict between the two people or forces (the protagonist and antagonist), and the second half of the story is about resolving that conflict. That's what conflict resolution is: how the author, through the characters, solves the problem and ends the conflict.

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