Anthem is a story that has been looked up to for many years. My Question is, Is Anthem really telling us to be different or is it telling us something more. The answer is more. Ann Rand was a brilliant writer, but the way she puts this story together, she didn’t just mean you should be different. The way she makes the characters talk and act is something more than what we think it means since she has them have different names for different groups in which makes us think about the Idea of her book. The way how she works this out is almost impossible to notice. She tries to get you to guess until the one word, it changes every way you think of the story, that word is ego. He carves that word in a rock at the end as if you were supposed to get …show more content…
The first thing we have to talk about is what ego means. Ego is one of two things, first, an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others, second, your consciousness of your own identity. You need to have ego to have a personality. The book states, “The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO” (Rand, Ann. 105). This story is the true meaning of how you are separating yourself from others. This book brings back so many details that are normally overlooked, and as a person, it can be said that is can be overlooked but it isn’t at all. One person can make their experience different and overlook what you don’t want to know or you can pull that information in, and understand the story or book …show more content…
It’s about the I in the sentence, and what I think. Over reading this book you get the idea of how she wants this, and how she wants that to be said plainly it’s what we think of ourselves not about them all the time. Ego has to deal with this because of the way that she/he has always done things and it’s the most important thing about how to make ourselves happy. There are people who make the worst cases about their friends but what is really happening is that when their friends don’t say anything about it and they do it’s really on you now and you are having to defend yourself, too. The friends sometimes ask them to stop most of the time they don’t. Ego is a huge part of this book and how it gets from saying “It’s a sin to write this.” (Rand, Ann. 17) to “My hands… My spirit... My sky… My forest… This earth of mine… What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.”(Rand, Ann. 94). What he decides to do at the end is the way that makes everyone wonder what I stood for. It stands for his freedom, and how he got away from being like everyone else. This word (ego) is a very important piece of the