Anthem Writing contest

I am. I think. I will, when these words are thought nothing out of the ordinary comes to mind. According to Ayn Rand’s book anthem, mine, my, and I are all taken for granted. Ayn Rand was born in 1905 and her book Anthem, published in 1938 kick started a all new genre of dystopian society books. In Anthem a future world has lost technology and all knowledge of individualism. They have abandoned the thought of themselves and now “worship” the word we. Equality 7-2151 breaks we’s invisible bond made by us and we then created a brand new utopian society, that thrives on individualism. The perfect society equality created at the end of the book will include little to no rules from his past home because, he ran away from these rules, equality knows the unspeakable word, and the leader of his land is himself.
Equality 7-2125 grew up just like everybody else. At age five left for schooling then at age fifteen got a job as a streetsweeper, doing everything as a whole with no thought of themselves whatsoever. Then years later his world changed when he found a grate within the outskirts of the colony and ventured inside. In the tunnel he was in awe at the sophistication of everything the tunnel …show more content…
Equality at the young age of 10 saw a man burned alive at the sake for speaking the unspeakable word. While the flames roared and encased the man he seemed to have looked at equality as if choosing him to gather this word and spread it across the world. After equalitie’s finding of the tunnel, discovery of electricity, and escape to the woods. He found what this man’s eyes beckoned for him to collect, “This god, this one word: I,” (Rand 97) I, is what he believes to be the key to life. He knows the ancient secret that has been guarded by the council for centuries. With this new found knowledge that he believes in so much would he give in to the “monster” of we, I don’t think