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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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