Ayn Rand's Things Fall Apart In A Novel

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Books are not only made of characters, but emotions. As readers, we immerse ourselves in their pages to live the concerns and conflicts of the protagonists. We seek to feel something that moves us to another reality. How many times have we had the need to kill the antagonist with our own hands, or to shelter the protagonist in our arms? The conflicts that arise in a novel help us connect with the characters, and this is very necessary, so we want to continue reading.
We either suffer or are happy with their experiences, you could almost say that, at times we would like to be them. All this activity develops, in a certain way, empathy and social understanding, two unique abilities of the human being. What is incredibly hard to believe are the

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