A true opponent not only wants to prevent the hero from achieving his desire but is competing with the hero for the same goal.
Point me to the paragraph where it says they DON'T actually need to compete for the same goal, they just need to have SIMILAR goals in the subtext. It literally doesn't say this. It's a fucking textbook, so don't start with your usual "it's in the subtext" crap. This is informative non fiction. There is no sub text, there are only facts. In fact, this is the book that teaches you about subtext, not one that expects you to understand it in order to read. You are putting words in the author's mouth to fit your agenda.
Litterally this one:
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If you look at a number of good stories, it often appears, at first glance, that hero and opponent are not competing for the same goal. But look again. See if you can spot what they are really fighting about. [...]
The trick to creating an opponent who wants the same goal as the hero is to find the deepest level of conflict between them. "
Here, he is litterally speaking of stories like One Piece. If you don't understand here that Truby is explaining that sometimes, the goal is not visible, must we have to seek DEEPER (ergo, subtext) then you have a real problem of comprehesion of this technique and this section.
Actually.. this would explain perfectly why you don't understand why Gin is Sanji's main antagonist and not Krieg, why would he? Following your point of view, they are both fighting for two different things and Krieg is hitting hard Sanji..
The problem is that if you only create goal on the surface, what you will only get is
a shallow story. To create a deeper meaning through conflict, you actually need to make both character fight for the same thing,
even if this is not obvious on a first read.
There is no subtext here, Truby is very clear.
Also let's get something straight. Having a degree > self studying for any ammount of time. I don't care if you've "disected" it for 10 years. I have grades on papers and exams and feedback from actual expert proffesors telling me I am right, and you disagree with even the most basic concepts that EVERY EXPERT I talked to for years explained.
I misunderstood parts at first too. But I got feedback from assignments, and recieved correction from professors AND HAD IT EXPLAINED TO ME BY THE ACTUAL AUTHOR. I changed my interpretation according to experts, and proved that I now understand it properly by recieving top grades on essays and exams about it.
It seems that what happened with you, is that you misunderstood parts just like me, but since you were dissecting the book yourself instead of taking classes on it, you recieved no feedback and proceeded to stick your head farther up your own ass with each subsequent read through, further rienforcing the incorrect interpretation you had to begin with, only changing your view when you decided you were wrong, not experts, and not FUCKING JOHN TRUBY HIMSELF. Then one day you decided you were an expert yourself because you read the book enough times, and now pride yourself on expert analysis of fart jokes and fat, thong wearing dudes in cat suits.
You know what, this p*nis battle is actually a bit childlish for me. I told you that I had a degree also, I had the same "type" of interventions, sametype of exams and feedback.. Still.. at this time.. Because of that, the fact that I was young and because of the fact that my grade were also good, I thought that I knew everything at the end of my schooling days.
Spoiler: I knew NOTHING, I was too confident in my knowledge
Because to really understand the concepts Truby is highlighting here (and not just him), we must go through the trial by FIRE:
Writing
Only by writing (and doing this by yourself) we can really understand how powerful a story can become when you applies those concept. (this one included) and how shallow a storyline can be without proper conflict. You can be given 30 times an explaination by the actual author of the book, if you don't experiment failure on a blank page, it doesn't mean anything. So, only by failing, I understood that it was time for a deeper deconstruction of those concept. And oh boi.. was I soo above my head..
Real expertise comes in the form of peer review. My understanding was reviewed when my article on literary analysis was picked by U of M faculty to be published in their student literature magazine. Now I'm peer reviewing your work, and I'm telling you it is SUB PAR. I reccomend seeking a real teacher and opening yourself up to the posibility of being wrong.
I'm not questionning your knowledge on litteratures analysis or your paper, you might have made some very good points, after all there is a lot to talk about. But we are not talking about your work there, we are talking about your understanding of AoS and a simple rule (or method, it's better), written clearly on the page in one of the sections of the book, that you litterally
don't want to accept.
Never forget that everyone, even the most influent expert on earth, can be trapped by cognitive bias, like thinking you know something, when you actually don't (or at least in that case, don't want to accept it)
The problem is that this little method is primordial to create a good conflict (and it should have been highlighted a little bit more by Truby I think)
I do not need to seek a teacher, I'm way beyond that point. Here, I explained to you clearly why this method was important, how this method needs to be applied and where you can find it in popular stories (like One Piece).
So.. If you still denying everything after this point.. I can't do anything about you other than to say :
"good luck on your writings, you might need it."
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