Leonard Miller's Fahrenheit 451

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There have been millions of books and short stories written and published in the world that make information and entertainment easily tangible and have recorded the history of Humanity and the world for generations. Books and short stories centered around telling a story nonfiction and fiction alike all have one thing in common, something that creates all the love, suspense, and horror that makes stories enjoyable, Protagonists and antagonists. They are the people, animals, or things that drive the story and make it a real nail biter. Focusing on six stories in particular, these important characters will be given the spotlight.` Fahrenheit 451 is a set in a dystopian future, the government has eradicated the right to freely obtain knowledge …show more content…
He is on a night walk that he takes every night without any disturbances but one day he is stopped by an automated police car, in fact, it is the only police car remaining in the city. The automated police car stops Leonard and asks him for his name, profession, and other things, the car exclaims that he is regressing to a more primitive state and that writing isn’t really a profession. Leonard rejects the accusation but in the end is taken to an insane asylum, since there are really only two characters in this story, the protagonist is Leonard Miller because he is trying to drive the story by walking. The Antagonist is the automated police car, it is trying to stop Leonard from completing his task and driving the story forward and ultimately succeeds in taking Leonard to the …show more content…
Elie Wiesel is the main protagonist, he is very immersed in the Jewish religion but the threat of Nazis is growing to strong. Elie is forced by Nazis to go through evaluation and him and his group are transported to Auschwitz, one of the most well known concentration camp and is also the most brutal. He and everyone around him struggle with health and the mental will to live on throughout the book. Elie has to witness his father’s death and many of his friends death and it almost kills him as well. Main antagonists are literally all of the Nazis because this is a story about concentration camps and they are as nasty in Night as they are in hollywood if not more. When American troops finally liberate the camp, Elie is so stricken with hunger, thirst, and numerous accounts of diseases. He almost dies numerous times and he finds it really hard to find hope in his situation, which makes sense. Night is an amazing autobiography that teaches the world about what people like Hitler would do if they rose to power, it is a tool for preventing catastrophes in the future and is an educational piece of

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