Monday, May 30, 2011

Anthem by Ayn Rand [pgs 1-51]

ROAR POST #1 :) .


Summary:
 To cope living under the rules of government and not individual freedom. To do things of our generation in their time is forbidden but Equality 7-2521 doesn't follow what is required to be met. No one is allowed to write , love a brother more than another, everyone is supposed to be against evil. Jail is a palace of corrective detention. A palace ? Yes, what irony. To identify people they have a bracelet with a number on it. To begin with Equality 7-2521 does not fit the norm. You have to be of average height, 5'5" and they are 6 ft tall. They were born with a curse that makes them think thoughts that are forbidden, Equality 7-2521 characterizes themselves as evil but do not know how to impede it. Equality 7-2521 portrays a human living in our generation but put into a different environment with different set of rules. In this place you are assigned what occupation you will be fulfilling. Equality 7-2521 ended up being a street sweeper. While working Equality 7-2521 he discovers an old iron grill. over a black hole. It was forbidden to not follow the rules but they broke them anyways, they entered into the black hole and they saw that it was a tunnel built in the unmentionable times. The unmentionable times is our generation. Being under ground they discovered so much, they discovered acids and how to melt metals things they were never taught. Every one has a soul mate and Equality 7-2521 is in love with Liberty 5-3000. Men and women in this society are separated and they can only mate when it is "time of mating" but even that is arranged. Equality named Liberty the Golden One.

Quotation:
"Rather shall we be evil with you than good with all our brothers" (Rand 34).

Reflection:
The reason i chose that quote was because just reading a few of these pages it has come to my attention that Equality 7-2521 are humans but with our characteristics. Equality said the quote above and he will rather stick with one group that to try to fit in with the rest. Many of us try to find ways to fit in when we just need to stand out. Equality also portrays human characteristics of this generation because he falls in love and has favorism to certai groups.