Restrictions usually result in rebellion by citizens. In Anthem, Equality was tired of living the way he was so he decides to run away into the Uncharted Forest (76). While he is in the forest, he finds a house and learns the word “I” which makes him feel free from the grasps of the council (94). According to the North Korean documentary, a 25 year old student managed to cross the border and is now living in China. The similarities in both societies is that there are people that can not stand the way they are being run and wants to leave. The difference is that if a person from North Korea manages to escape, their family, that is left behind, gets punished and is usually killed, according to the documentary. In Anthem, once Equality ran away,
