Rick Deckard Character Analysis

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In the future, there is a police group that hunts down mean robots who disguise as humans. The trouble is, all of these robots look exactly like humans!

Rick Deckard is one of these people, and today he needs to catch a robot that has escaped.

What worries Rick is that the robot he has to catch is a smarter model than others.

Since he knows that the robot is a good singer, he decides to go to the music center to look for the robot.

At the music center, Rick sees the robot!
He tries to get closer to it, but someone catches him!

Rick is taken to a police station, where they ask him lots and lots of questions. The people there almost send him to prison because they think he is a robot!

Rick finally gets out of the police station and goes

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