The Protagonist In Elie Wiesel's The Time Machine

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The protagonist in my novel is the time traveler himself. I feel he is the protagonist because he drives the action. If it wasn’t for the Time Traveler than the novel wouldn’t have as much action. Example is when the Time Traveler goes in to time and meets the morlocks and he has to go underground to retrieve The Time Machine because the morlocks took it. I feel that The Time Traveler is a believable character. I believe that he is a believable character because he is an inventor. Inventors always meet trouble somewhere in the ways of inventing there product.

The antagonist would have to be time. The time would have to play apart in the antagonist because the time traveler faces a lot of problems due to time. I believe that time is believable.
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The time traveler was having dinner with a group of men. Where he is explaining to them that a cube exist in time also and not only in space. The time traveler also thinks that time is also four dimensional. The time traveler returns to his home the next night for dinner with some new guest and some old. The time traveler then gets asked to tell the story so he does but he tells his guest that he is not in the mood to argue so they just have to listen and the guest agree so he starts to tell them the story. The time traveler finally finished his time machine he had it take him back in time. The time machine finally stop at a place where he meets creatures called elois. After the time traveler explores the area of where he is at he returns back to find his time machine gone. He then starts to think that the morlocks took his time machine which he believes the morlocks live underground. The time traveler then meets a one of a kind elois named weena. He takes weena underground with him to find his time machine but when they got down there they got scared by the elois so they took off to a place to hide so they went to a museum to be safe. The time traveler finds some tools in the museum and he accidently starts a fire with the matches. By starting a fire some of the morlocks die and weena also dies. Then he tries to go back to get him time machine and the returning morlocks think they have him trapped until he goes into the …show more content…
The time traveler was about to find where his time machine was because he meant the morlocks earlier and he kinda thought that they might have it. So the time traveler went underground to where the morlocks live. When he made it underground he went looking for it but the morlocks startled him and weena so they took off to hide. That is when he started a fire on accident that killed some of the morlocks and weena. So then he finally got the time machine back and the remaining morlocks thought they had him caught but he until he goes into the

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