The Anthem was a story about a boy named Equality 7-2521 that lived in a dystopian society. His job was a street sweeper and while he was doing his job he stumbled upon a abandon, underground railroad tunnel. He spent a lot of his time there alone with his thoughts which was illegal in his city. He eventually brings his friend, International 4-8818 down to the tunnel as long as he will keep it a secret. He goes to the tunnel every night and writes in his journal about what happens each day. One day, while he is working, he sees a girl named Liberty 5-3000. The next day he begins talking to her and tells her that he has named her the Golden One. Later that night while he was in his tunnel while he is dissecting a frog he discovers electricity. He ends up making a light bulb and wants to bring his invention to the Scholars. The Scholars are a group of people in his society that come up with all of the inventions in the city. He finds out that their next meeting will be in his city and he decides that that will be the time he will present his light bulb to them. The night of the meeting he breaks into their meeting and tells them that he has this invention that will make light rather than just candles. The Scholars grow angry and believe that if it was not invented by a group of men it cannot be a worth invention so they want to destroy it. Equality steals his candle back from the men and runs and runs until he can't any more. The next morning he awakes in the Forbidden Forest and realizes that this is the first time he has awoken as a free man. He is happy and proud about leaving the city and begins walking further into the forest.
In my opinion I actually liked this book. At some points of the book I needed to reread some parts to understand it, but it was interesting. All of the laws that this weird and different society is interesting to me. I also like to read books that has to do revolts and uprising, so in a book like this where this guy escapes from the strict laws of this dystopian world to create his own was pretty good.
