Equality's Journey

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“To be free,a man must be free of his brothers.” In the story equality was born and raised in a town where it was ruled by the home of the world council. In this town you didn't have a choice in what you wanted to be because they said, “you are too young and stupid to know what you want to be so, we shall tell you what are to be and shall do as your brothers do.” And so begin Equality`s journey.

In the story Equality finds a tunnel and starts doing stuff in the tunnel when he's not suppose to be in there. Each night he is in the tunnel he is learning stuff he not suppose to know according to the world council.

One night he spends too much time in the tunnel and gets caught when they ask where he has been he doesn't tell them, so he taken

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