Anthem Reflection

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When I read the Anthem book, it was depressed just to see the main character live like this. This book can be compared to slavery. All the things that the people did in this is book can be similar to slavery. If I was one of these the people in this book, my attitude would be depression. Not only slavery, the people who were over the people discourage them. The people were telling the main character to be the same as the other person. In the book, many people were not able to get things quicker like other people. The people wanted the students at their school to be the same. If a person is different from the person, they have commited a sin. At the end of the book things would get better. The books begins about a young man name Equality 7-2521. …show more content…

While Equality 7- 2521 was at the place, he was asked the question the people wanted to know where have Equality 7-2521 been. Equality 7-2521 didn’t asked the question and was beaten inside the Stone Room. He was asked the questioned again, but still didn’t tell them. Equality 7-2521 escaped the Palace of Corrective Detention due to poor locks and no guards. After he escaped, Equality 7-2521 went to the World Council of Scholars to let them see his work. When the people in the meeting saw Equality 7-2521’s inventions, they were displeased of it. They wanted to destroy it, but Equality 7-2521 didn’t let them by punching the windowpane and leap out of the window. Equality 7-2521 was in the forest all alone, until The Golden One came. When The Golden One came, both of them live in the forest together, until they finally saw a house on the mountains. They have finally decided to go walk up to the mountains to view the house which was the perfect house to live in. At the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 and The Golden One changed their life by changing their names to Prometheus and Gaea, started saying the word “I” instead of “We”, and letting Equality 7-2521’s people have freedom by moving them in the area that they live

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