Brief Summary Of The Book 'Equality 7-2521'

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“I” a word that is banned in equality 7-2521 society, where there is no individualism yet instead collectivism. In this book equality 7-2521 is living in a collectivism society and he slowly rebels against this. What are a few reasons why he starts to rebel? These reasons are that he was curious, fell in love, and individuality. To begin with one of the reasons he slowly rebels against his society is he was curious and had desired to learn things. For example, Equality 7-2521 Pointed toward to rebellion when he and International 4-8818 found a hole in a ground and decided to not tell the council and started to steal from brothers to learn the objects and items around them. Even when he was a child and in school, he got

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