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.
Sounds like a cool book. I usually like books about dystopian society and this sounds like a really good one. I like how its in the past, that makes it more interesting. I would want to read this to find out what happens to the other people who Equality meets and what happens to him after he leaves with the lightbulb.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds very different and fascinating. However, it does sound confussing. Like you said, I would probably have to go back and re-read some parts so I could understand it better. Why would you reccomend this book to others?
ReplyDeleteI don't like how this book uses weird names and numbers for the people. This book sounds super confusing. I don't think I would enjoy reading it.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this summary, I don't think this would be a book that I personally would choose. I think it would be somewhat hard to follow, and I don't think I would be able to relate to the setting of this story. It does sound somewhat interesting, but just not for me.
ReplyDeleteno lie, this sounds like the weirdest book in the world, but it's that fact that also makes it intriquing. The story plot seems to have flow and actually im on the fence about this book but either way its .... unique to say the least
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this summary, im agreeing with molly and saying this might not be a good book for me. It sounds pretty interesting but the amount of confusion involved would probably confuse to the point of no reading....
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds really interesting. But I agree it dose sound confusing. Why do they have numbers for names?
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