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B. The character have the biggest impact because their actions can change the course of where the story is going such as in my example, you have a boy who is running for school president. The boy then gets into a fight and is suspended, he can no longer run for president at his school as a punishment for getting into the fight. His action of fighting changed the story's course.
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