This novel is called “Anthem” by: Ayn Rand. “It is a sin to write this.” So begins but by the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 has a different moral assessment of his action. Do you think Equality’s eventual assessment of his sin is correct? Why or why not? At the beginning of this story Equality 7-2521 has only one sin and that is to work for his brothers then learning about the unmentionable times he starts to think differently about life and what he is doing.
What Equality 7-2521 was raised to do and no to do?
He lived in the Home of the Infants till he was five. He went to school for fifteen years from home of the students to becoming a street sweeper cause that's what the council told them he had to do and nothing else for the rest …show more content…
So we walked to the door, and we threw it open, and we stepped together into the House of the Unmentionable Times. They were amazed by everything in the house from books to articles stuff they have heard about but nobody has sense for years and now they were touching and looking through them. (Chapter 10, paragraph 8)
What Equality 7-2521 now knows about his life and that he needs to care more about himself and a little less on others.
Equality now knows that he himself is a person and he can look at himself now and know he can be more than just a street sweeper and do good things like invent new machines and things to help better his home and do what he likes to do not what the council tells him to do. Equality has realized that he has been lied to all these years from the only thing in life is to work for what your brother have accomplished before you when in reality humans should be able to do what they want to do and be what they want to be. “He looked through books and saw words he did not know like “I” , “me”, “mine” he was confused but the more he read the better he understood what they meant and how it's not just everyone or the past he must worry about he must care for himself
What Equality 7-2521 was raised to do and no to do?
He lived in the Home of the Infants till he was five. He went to school for fifteen years from home of the students to becoming a street sweeper cause that's what the council told them he had to do and nothing else for the rest …show more content…
So we walked to the door, and we threw it open, and we stepped together into the House of the Unmentionable Times. They were amazed by everything in the house from books to articles stuff they have heard about but nobody has sense for years and now they were touching and looking through them. (Chapter 10, paragraph 8)
What Equality 7-2521 now knows about his life and that he needs to care more about himself and a little less on others.
Equality now knows that he himself is a person and he can look at himself now and know he can be more than just a street sweeper and do good things like invent new machines and things to help better his home and do what he likes to do not what the council tells him to do. Equality has realized that he has been lied to all these years from the only thing in life is to work for what your brother have accomplished before you when in reality humans should be able to do what they want to do and be what they want to be. “He looked through books and saw words he did not know like “I” , “me”, “mine” he was confused but the more he read the better he understood what they meant and how it's not just everyone or the past he must worry about he must care for himself