What makes an everyday person a hero? In Anthem, a novella by Ayn Rand, the main character is viewed as an epic hero. Equality 7-2521 shows that he is capable of doing great deeds, he is humble, and that he stands for good. Equality could be viewed as a normal person in his society and he could also be viewed as a hero by people who know his story or know what he did.
Equality shows that he is very humble. When he was still in school, he was the smartest one but he did not brag or boast about it. “We looked upon Union 5-3992, who were a pale boy with only half a brain, and we tried to say and do as they did, that we might be like them like Union 5-3992, but somehow the Teachers knew that we were not” (Rand 8). When he took his glass box to