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“A good book only needs an exciting story. The characters are not important. Do you agree?” Write a composition making reference to a book you’ve read. Can just an exciting story make a book beautiful? Personally I don’t think so. A good story, without some important characters, is like a house without the furniture: incomplete. In my opinion, the characters are so important because all people, while they are reading, try to “live” the story of the book by the protagonists’ perspective. Just let me do an example: the famous book “Harry Potter” has surely got an exciting story: a magical world is threatened by an evil wizard who wants to become immortal. But the principal character, Harry, is very important: do you really think that every kid in the word would read a book with the same story of “Harry Potter” if the main character would be an old boring man? In conclusion, I think that a good book needs, beside of a wonderful story, some important and charming characters too.

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1. Can an exciting storyline in itself make a book attractive? Personally I don’t think so. A good story without some likeable and interesting characters is like a house without furniture: incomplete. In my opinion, the characters are so important because all the people who are reading the book try to “live” its story from the protagonists’ perspective. Just let me give an example: the famous book “Harry Potter” has certainly got an exciting story: a magical world is threatened by an evil wizard who wants to become immortal. But the principal character, Harry, plays a major part (because he is young, dynamic and personable): it is highly unlikely that such vast numbers of children around the world would have read a book with the same storyline as “Harry Potter” if the main character had been a boring old man. To conclude, I think that a good book needs, beside of a wonderful plot, some distinctive and charming characters too. (It is unwise to challenge the teacher or the examiner with a sentence like "do you really think etc.." which is somewhat condescending, and the term "kid" is too colloquial. Also bear in mind that not "every child in the world" ["world" was mispelt] has read the Harry Potter saga, so I have altered the sentence to suit. You have used the word "important" too often as a blanket term, so I have substituted other adjectives, and you should give reasons as to why Harry is a likeable character, so I have inserted this in brackets.)