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Ayn (rhymes with "mine," ironically enough) Rand penned this cult classic over 50 years ago, but it still resonates with today's audiences. Our question for you: is the main character always the hero?

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Atlas Shrugged all AskMe up let's talk about Atlas Shrugged novel by Ayn Rand

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crucible how do we define a hero well

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here was often but not always the same as the main character

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you can identify the main character because he changes throughout the story

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like

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spot along finally learning to crimes

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I okay back to the question

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who is the hero of this story anyway it could be Dagny Taggart

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she's beautiful exciting and she's a very successful businesswoman

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in a very sexy world and her work is the vice president of operations for a major

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railroad is valuable to society

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as a bonus Jan strong ties to the underground strike movement led by John

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Galt I'm

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means she can challenge the corrupt government until the collapse of society

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in the courtroom John Bowman is at that point she's no longer can be and she can

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be

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particle world her beliefs have changed she's now

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wholeheartedly against the government she's definitely the main character

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but issue here on baby the hero is John Galt

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he's depicted as the person we should all aspire

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to be as is common euros this guy has greatly resins

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he's basically ingenious any in men in some world-changing but going to some

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people he found the Mountain View in the lost city of Atlantis

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even though we don't see got much you really drive the actions toward green

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represents the ultimate

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in objectivism be absolutely refuses the parasite that is the government so

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instead he dropped rapidly create a new design based on his mom

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in the end after civilization problem on the getting ready

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meeting rooms and Jacob on but it's also possible that the euro is a group of

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people

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rans men if the mine are a bunch a brilliant inventors

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scientist engineers and artist

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they believe in the right to run their own lives without having to deal with

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the corrupt governments policies

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for example they don't feel an inventor should have to surrender all inventions

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to the authorities

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they believe they are entitled to have control and ownership with their

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homework

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we're taking a collective stand against a corrupt government

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try and force change in the world

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not make them heroes which one do you think is a hero

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smoke among yourselves blowing

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