Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. ~Ayn Rand
Collectivism. Individualism. Conformity. Independence. Anthem certainly does make us stop and appreciate the freedoms we enjoy every day in our society. In addition, it has been described as having a "parable-like quality" which calls to mind many other associations we may have. I have already heard several comparisons to events in other books and movies or even to different events from history. Besides being insightful and provocative, Anthem has also been called the most "accessible" of Rand's works, meaning many people--especially young people--can easily relate to it. So for this week's journal entry, tell me: What thoughts does Anthem inspire in you? Do you think of politics and philosophy, like Rand herself? Or does it remind you of a book you've read, a movie you've seen, a person you've known? Does it make you consider yourself and your place in society? Your rights and responsibilities as a student? As a citizen? Describe what you think of as we read (it can be about the whole novel or one specific incident in the story), and then (since we have some extra time for this entry) go back and reply to at least one other person's comment as well. Be sure to add to the conversation "I agree" will not suffice. Contribute something of interest: add to their thoughts, compare their ideas with yours or to something else from the story (or from another story or from life itself!), or take an opposing point of view. The options are limited only by your effort and imagination! Part 1: Comment. Part 2: Discuss. You get a grade for BOTH parts. I can't wait to see what you all have to say! :)
Yes i have seen alot of movies, not really books because i don't read that much! But what i like in the book is how equality 5-2721 is taking his own freedom into his own hands, hes different and he wants to be his own person! And i have been thinking of when we read is how i would react to the situation if brought up. I think i would take my own freedom into my own hands. And for my rights and a student, I think that they improve as time goes on, but i also like to think of giving back to society as in helping others and doing the next right thing! And i think anthem has alot of that. With equality 5-2721 he makes the light work and he tries to tell the others so they could help him help people live better and make the society different.
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im not much of a reader aswell. Id see the movie first if its out there. I like your connections. awesome entry!
Deletei liked how he focused on freedom as well, he stood up and stood out as a good man, though the others didnt agree with what he considered okay he still did it because it felt right to him, and its good not to resist what seems good.
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In reading Anthem it makes me think of politics more than anything I think because to think if life was really like that and that we were not able to show are individual qualities and personalities is just not right. I think that it is true that we are all equal, but we are all equal under God which in turn means that we can still be ourselves and be our on human being and be able to share are qualities with the rest of the world and still be equal because somewhere out there is another person who shares the same quality as you. Anthem inspires me to be myself and fight for what I believe in. I have thought about where i stand in society and I say that for right now I am on the right path to where I need to be going in this world. Anthem has definitely made me believe and think that we should keep the same rights that we have now and still be equal under God, but not equal with eachother. :)
ReplyDeleteI so agree with all of this!! We are equal under God because he loves us all the same. The world can not be like the world in the Anthem because no body can come close to being the same as everybody else. We are all different in our own ways and that is how God made it, he made it that way. We have to work together to make every one feel eqaul as like being treating equal.
DeleteAnthem makes me feel crazy when I read it, because nobody shows any true feelings except Equality. He wishes to be different, to live in a world where he'll be able to help society by reinventing even the lightbulb! But the Council sees his reinvention as evil. It would be hard for me to not express my feelings and opinions in his society. I think I'd get shot the first day of the Great Rebirth
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This book makes me think of a book I read in 8th grade. It was about a society that everyone was kinda of equal. They all took pills so that they wouldn't have feelings, emotions, or hormones. Every guy got assigned a girl, and they got married. Then they both were assigned two kids, a boy and a girl. The Council their also choose their jobs for them. I loved the book, it was great. I wish I remembered what the book was called though.
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I remeber reading that book but I dont remember what I was called.L agree that book was a really good book. That is the book I was telling you about in class Mrs.Snow
DeleteOh hey best friend! but yea i totally agree with you. I read the same book and it reminds me of this book also. I loved the book. I this book is great as well. Would so read it again
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That book sounds really good. That story does relate the Anthem a lot, but yes some details are a little different than the others...If you ever figure out the name of that book let me know asap!!:)
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I think the book you are talking about is The Giver. I don't know who wrote it, but it's about a boy who is growing up in a society much like the one in Anthem. He is just hitting puberty and when he tells his family about his dream, they give him a pill. In that book, no one sees colors. And when he was assigned his job, The Giver was able to pass memories from himself, to the boy. I greatly enjoyed that book.
DeleteAnthem doesn't inspire any thoughts in me because it is really confusing and boring. I am not like Rand because I don't think of politics or philosophy. Anthem doesn't remind me of any book I've read or any movie I have watched because it is really confusing and I don't even know what is going on in the book. Anthem doesn't make me consider my place in society.
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Wow, OU-Sooner. If only this blog was asking you to air all of your grievances, you would be getting full credit. Unfortunately, it was asking you to describe what it makes you think about. I guess I should have been more clear in the prompt, not only do you HAVE to contribute something worthwhile and of interest in your reply to someone else's comment, you are actually going to have to write something worth reading in your original comment as well. This is not a comment; it is a cop out. I would say 'try again,' but that implies you had actually tried the first time. As that is not the case, just be aware that what you have written here will receive no credit. Respond to the prompt.
DeleteOU-Sooner, Mrs. Snow is right. Make some effort
DeleteI think it is also very confusing because they keep using the word "WE" wich really throws me off. and they like to say "but save..." which I really don't get. I think it does make you consider your place in society you are not a reader or thinker!
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Mrs. Snow I don't know why you don't think I didn't put any effort into this because I actually did. I was like the 10th person to comment, now that's effort. Plus, this is a comment, so there is the test of my blog. <-- that's a nice use of commas if you ask me. And I agree with riku because they always use we instead and I and that's dumb because no one talks like that. I don't really know what consider your place in society means so that's why it doesn't make me consider my place in society. And the reason it doesn't make me think of another book or movie is because I don't even understand the book. The only book it reminds me of is animal farm because they are both kind of about communism.
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And why does it say I got a 7 out of 21 on an assignment for cheating? I don't even remember what the assignment was so I don't know how I cheated. Plus it says I got a 0 out of 15 on this blog and it was due today and I just did it. Not late.
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OU-Sooner, welcome back. You certainly DID put effort into this entry (these entries), and it was most definitely a nice use of commas with coordinating conjunctions (as was this sentence!). You now have credit for this entry (full credit, not late--but grades were due at 2:30), and your grade has gone up accordingly. You do still need to reply to someone else's comment adding something meaningful to the conversation (either agreeing or disagreeing with their remarks or making a connection between their entry and something new) for full credit for this assignment. Now as to your next remark (for which you could easily have emailed me instead of making it public knowledge): The assignment was the Philosophical Concepts Graphic Organizer (Collectivism, Individualism, etc). The definitions and examples we filled out together during class. The opinion part was your responsibility, and yours alone as no one else should share YOUR OPINION. Unfortunately, your opinion section was word-for-word the same as another student's. My classroom policy for cheating, as outlined in the course syllabus, is a zero for everyone involved. I still gave each of you credit for the part we did as a class. Personally, I thought that was good of me. If you would like to redo the opinion section, I would be happy to adjust your grade. Not because I am, in any way, required to do so, but because I would like to see you each receive credit for honest work (and yes, that punctuation is entirely correct with both an interrupter and a comma and coordinating conjunction). Do let me know what you decide. I check both my email and this blog multitudinous times every day. :D
DeleteOU-Sooner, Mrs. Snow is right. You should have emailed her about your grades not on this blog. youre crazy! I wouldnt want everyone knowing my ggrade or anything lol
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Anthem....that just makes me upset that the people in that book dont have freedom or anything. You just have to feel sorry for them. They dont have freedom to express themselfs. So if no one had freedom they cant go on with life no expressing your talents. Thats why i think that they die at such a young age because they have no reason to live. I think people live longer here in the 21 century longer because they have a reason to live. Not to work all as one man. We all have to be different some how.......... This book does not remind me of another book or movie.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree i think that people in that book dont know what life really could be. They are so caught up in making everyone else happy that themselves dont even matter. As the saying goes you cant be happy unless you make yourself happy first and doing that makes a big difference.
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I totally agree to this. Without show what talents you have, you have to be forced in doing either something that you hate or not even good at so why not do something that you do like and enjoy and not be put into misery. People need to speak their minds and sow what they know.
Deletei also agree to what is said i dont know what people in this book where thinking because that is CRAZY. but i would hate to live in that society because i would hate doing what everyone else does you need to be different. thats why i am we have different races.
Deletei also agree. no matter the situation they deserve to live a little and have a life. could you imagine what our world would be like if our life was like that? do you think you would do what Equality 7-2521 did? me personay i think that i would have done the same thing. i dont follow the crowd. i do my own thing.
Deletei totally agree. I don't think that people are very intresting if they cant express there selves. I think that its a very sad book, manly because in class we were talking about how Aynrand was living in a society sort of like that! I think she had a lot of courage to speak out against the society that she came from but also how she took what she had and made her own happy ending! By coming to America and being the person that she always wanted to be. I see that she is a very outstanding women.
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Along with Honey Bee, not having a purpose in life...well, there wouldn't be ANY life! What's life without purpose? Not even being able to express one's emotions is depressing. I think with Equality being a rebel in the midst of society then is more than just courageous. It's almost godly!
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The book Anthem makes me think of communism. Everyone is being controlled by there government(council). They are trying to make everybody equal in a way. The only book I can think of that is kinda like it is Animal Farm. Both books make sure everyone is one and equal but it never works out.
ReplyDeleteI remember Animal Farm, i loved getting to read that in class. I agree, both are of untrue societies. Both of the leaders/council in each book claimed to be making things better and equal, but in reality, It's not equality if someone must enforce it.
DeleteI'm confused, do we write a journal entry and in the journal entry include our thoughts on someone else's journal entry?
ReplyDeleteYou will write a comment responding to the prompt in the blog, like always. For this week, in your entry, make some connection between Anthem and some other book, movie, short story, song, event from your life, etc. Any connection at all. Compare it to something. Then, you will go to someone else's entry, and reply to their comment by either adding something to it, or disagreeing and giving your reasons. Or maybe their comment made you think of something new too?
DeleteSo, write a journal entry. Then go to someone else's entry, and hit reply, then add your thoughts to their conversation.
Okay? Thanks for asking. I think a lot of people are confused by the low number of comments so far! :)
I think that this book had true meaning that shows you need to care about yourself and what you want and not always try to serve others. Everyone deserves to spoil themselves and make themselves happy and with doing that it should be a sein or a crime like the book makes it to be. I love now that our society isn't like that because i love having freedom and getting to express myself and who i am without having to worry about someone else wanting to kill me for it. This book if anything reminds me of that paper we read in class that handicaps people's strenths because it doesnt allow them to show hwo they are or excell in anything which is exactly what the book does.
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i agree if we all were equal life would be dull and bland. their is absoulity no way for every one to be equal you can only cover up what is not equal but in doing so it makes our selfs stronger. if we were all supposed to be equal dont you think god would have made up equal.
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Yeah, i totally feel you on this. I mean, what's life if you can't have the freedom to be whatever kind of person you want to be? Individuality, at some level, is a characteristic of EVERY person. Humans, by nature, are self-centered. It's always "me, myself, and I". It's not a bad thing, just how people are. It's good to have a little individualism. I mean, in this comment alone, I've demonstated individualism multiple times.
DeleteDang. I agree. I like how you expressed that. I do totally agree with you 100%, we get to express our feelings and our own opinions everyday. We all kind of take advantage of that sometimes, but it is better than not being able to. I mean think about it, how would you feel if it was you in that book? I'd personally die knowing this perpective of life and going to that one.
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I totally agree with you. I need to treat myself well too, or else I would probably go insane. For example, if I didn't have a roof over my head, I would work my butt off to get one. hehe. I would get a job myself and work until I had enough money to buy essential food and things of that matter.
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I also agree that it would be a really boring world if everyone was the same and there would also be no economy if everyone had the same money because there would be no compotition or reason work to get more.
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I agree with youngmoney. our freedom is very important to us, and being able to express ourselves is very important also to make out society an interesting and an injoyable place to live!
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It inspires me to dislike communism more and more. Becuase it shows how others will take advantage of communism, and how redicules it will become to keep everyone equal. This book reminds me of the movie "The Patriot" how he went against all others and did it his way and helped in te war. The book also shows that we all need to live in compatition. Even though, most people do not like it.
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Ooh, another great depiction of someone working against a government infringing upon their individual rights! Well done!! :)
Deletei think this book inspires me because changes your idea about the world because you need to care about you and your family more than you try to take care of others.
ReplyDeleteand this book reminds me of a movie (shooter) its about a retired sniper is being asked how would you try to kill the president and so he goes up to washington and when it was to late someone else shot the president and set him up and grabed his gun and framed him and they shot him twice and he tries to take care of himself and gets revenge. and thats how this book reminds me about this movie.
Great connection, nightrider!! Awesome example of outside-the-box thinking!! :)
DeleteWhen the guy and "the Golden one" runs away and finds there home, and finds out everything that was in the unspeakable times make me think that they are free which reminds me to the titanic. It also makes me realize that i am so thankful that we live in the society that we live in. It makes me realize that what we think is hard or how we think that our life is hard in nothing compared to the way people lived and had to do things in the book.
ReplyDeletei think that this book has a good meaning to i that also tells me that you need to care about yourself. the book CITY OF EMBER reminds me about this book and it had alot of connections i thought. over all i liked the book and could hopefully watch the movie.
ReplyDeleteI agree it is just like the city of ember i think. I also think you need to care about yourself.
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I agree that the city of ember had a lot of similar connections. Because people lived underground not knowing that there was a greater world above.
DeleteAnthem inspires me in a few ways. The society is the same and can't think individualy or be them selves. In our society we have freedom to think what we want, be different individuals and have our own talents and express them. We have it easy and we sould be thankful for the little freedom we have. Anthem riminds me of the Greek mythology when Rand renamed her main characters equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000.Equality renamed Prometheus, allusions; Titan stole fire from zeus. Liberty renamed Gaea, allusion; goddess of earth and mother of titans.
ReplyDeleteI so agree. We should be so thankful for the freedom we have and that we should not take advantage of it. I also agree that in our society we are ALL different in our own way and with the talents that we have, we show them to others. :)
Deletethe book inspires me to be myself no matter what others say or do about it because it's my life i'm in control of it. i can become anything i want if i set my mind to it. russ and i are like equality we will work with others for for a littel while till they stop holding up their end. we have rebeled a lot of times like equality when he was working alone.
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DeleteThis also reminds me of the notebook. Noah didn't care what anyone said about him or anything people thought. He was always his own person in the movie.
anthem has inspired me to be myself. it has taught me to be my own person no matter what society has to say. you are your own person. one one person is the excatly the same. yes some people are the same but they are not excatly the same. just because goverment said so. that isnt a good enough reason. you are your own person, and that is that. it shouldn't matter if your smarter,better looking that has nothing to do with anything. you need to fing out who you want to be not that you want society things about you. what matters is what you think not what other people think.
ReplyDeletei agree with you and you are totally right about being yourself and being who you are instead of just acting lke other people.
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I definitely agree with this. It is hard knowing that everyone else can be prettier or better than you. I have to work on the jealousy part. Anthem has helped me a whole bunch with finding out who I really am!
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Wow! You all are making some GREAT connections, and I am loving your responses to each other!! Keep up the good work!! :D
ReplyDeletePersonally I have really enjoyed this book and I can't say that very often with books I'm not much of a reader but this book definetly sparked an interest in me. This book reminded me of the book The City of Ember, I think this because much like in Anthem the people of ember get their jobs chosen for them although I think Embers society is way less controlling. Also in both books your not allowed to leave the city, but past the city of ember there is only darkness and past the city in anthem is a huge scary forest. But it turns out to be not as scary as equality thought it would be. Another difference in both books is that ember is run off of electricity and in anthem the people use past methods such as candles to light their city. The book Anthem makes me appreciate the freedoms that I have in my life. Because I know I would be miserable living in a world where I have no say because I am mostly a pretty outspoken person and loud when I want to be. But as I said in my previous blog I would live like I'm supposed to live if I was born into an environment like anthem because that's all I would ever know. 10/11/10ilovejordan
ReplyDeleteat the end of the story when it talked about him screaming at the edge of the rock and the two lovers living free in the woods it reminded me of the book tuck everasting. the romance and the freedom. the only difference is there is a happy ending in anthem. :)
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ReplyDeleteThe certain part in the novel reminded me of titanic and the notebook. It reminded me of both of them because of the romance in the forest. I'm not quite sure why the notebook comes into play but it did. (:
I agree with you although through out the book it wasn't much of a love story but at the end it was sweet. It also reminded me of twilight a litle bit with the forbidden love thing.
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NIIIIIIIICE.....Idk what you mean tho..Ive never seen the titanic. but what a great relationship towwards it or whatever....
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the book Anthem just makes me want to make the world better because that would really suck if the world turned out like that in the future.
ReplyDeletei also agree the book makes me glade we have freedom and that we dont have to be alike. that would also be boarding and a way we couldent showour enter self.
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We would hate that kind of society. (reference pronouns) We don't like to be held back from our full potential, because it makes us feel trapped. The way that those people believe in the great "we" are corrupt and will not make it to heaven.
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i think it has more to do with being controlled im pretty sure some people would still make it to heaven cause look at equality..... he broke the laws he just got caught. for all we know there are more people like him who might know or beleve but just havent been discovered by the counsal yet... so your statement isent really entirly true.
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Oh snap! haha Nannerb is rite. They are very corrupt and we would all hate to live in a world like that.
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DeleteIts funny how you refereed to yourself as "we" like the book does.
Nobody would know their full potential, what they were good at, what they liked, NOTHING! You couldn't be more right. Society would be trapped in general. Trapped from being yourself, or plain out scared to be yourself!
If you had a society like this would there even be religion? It just makes me wonder because you say that they wouldn't make it to heaven. I wouldn't think they would have a religion because they are choosing one god, man, belief to another.
I'm not saying I don't believe in heaven and God! Just wondering, if there was a society like Anthems, would there be a religion?
I like how you said 'we feel as if we were trapped'. If there was a society like this in the novel our world would go crazy. We want everybody to be treated equally but be exactly the same. Everybody has their own personality and they should be able to show it.
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While reading Anthem, i've started to think about politics. Especially the comparison of complete unity and individualism. Obviously, if a government completley unified, punishing any amount of individualism with death, life is miserable. It becomes hard to enjoy and feel proud about anything because YOU dont exist. YOU only exist as gear in a collective cog called society. Likewise, a society of individuals would be just as destructive. In people were out solely for themselves, it'd be hard to even establish a government. Individuals wouldn't form collective groups for the benifit of society, but for the benifit for themselves. They would constantly be competing with each other, trying to get more power over the other. So both political solutions, in extreme, can not function. Having some sense of both would produce a society that both benifits individuals AND betters society as a community.
ReplyDeletewall reading Anthem i have bein thinking of politeis and i dont now how i could like in a society that i dont now myself and no one nose me Anthem made me appresiat are society and that we dont just get assened a name we have are own right and we can be all i and me and not men .
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Anthem certainly does make me appriciate the small things in life, in a way that, I am born with rights to be an individual. After reading this story, i began to wonder of the possibility of the near future taking a turn in that general direction. I see that Europe's economy is in the dumps and that they, along with neighboring countries, have given the idea for a single ruler over them all. To me this looks like it could be the beggining to a so called " One World Government." Under these circumstances, wether biblical or historical, things are changing and we have to accept that, But a good point is made in Anthem when it says, "The gods enslaved man, and he broke their chains." so in the end, no matter what happens to future generations, i think they should know that, we do have rights as an individual, and no matter what may happen, live for you while thingking of others
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Now I love movies no doubt, but I think alot of people dont relize when I read, it is a movie I see the characters I feel the wind they feel. even though it takes longer to read you still cant wait to see what happens next. alot of writer are amazing about painting a picture in my mind. I think why thid book was so good is because it was based of a controling society in the real world. Any one can write a story about a castle but the one writer whos been to a castle will write about it better. Thats the way i see it. Anthem isnt really my kind of story but i still enjoyed it. when I think of this i think of the book/movie city of Ember. i read this book a while back in elementry but i still remember some of the details in the story. I hope one day I could wright a movie that could make people feel what I thought. my mind has no retraint on it. MY favorite word is the unspeakable word. "If you didnt notice"
ReplyDeletei started to think, what would this world be like? would we be gray? no life and dull? but we dont know. but in this constitutional govt., that we have, we do have color, life, and fun. but in the book, what do they have? freedom? to do what they want? nahh, they have no right to say or do what they want. its no freedom. all of its dull.
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It reminds me of te city of ember. I think its a good book with a society just like this one. In the city of ember you also cant chose your career and they live undderground. I also think that this is a pretty good book. I liked anthem and i also was wandering what other books we were going to read.
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anthem made me think about comunist countrys like china and russia and other communist countries
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In reading the Anthem, I dont really think about philosiphy or politics really.... But to think if the life that we live in was really like that and that we were not able to show are individual qualities and personalities is just not right. The Anthem reminds me abut the movie, "The Patriot" ,and how he he made his own decisions and did it his way that helped in the war. This book can change your idea about the world because you naturally think about you and your family more than about others.
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This book reminds me of a book called The Hunger Games. Just because in that book, they kind of lived in a place similar to the world in Anthem. Not everyone was equal in that book, but the people in The Hunger Games definetly had to have obedience for the "government." It kind of makes me think about what the world would be like here, if it was the same as in Anthem. I could see a lot of people rebelling. I know I would. The book kind of inspires me to speak my opinions, and be my own person all of the time.
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while ready Anthem it has really got my thinking about the different books and movies that are something like the book. the Anthem book reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. Its when Equality runs away to the forest and the Golden One is following him.. Love can never not follow you if you turn around the one you love will be right there.. Equality is like romeo that runs away from the people that are trying to kill him. The Golden one is like juliet following the one she loves and finding away to be with him nomatter what.
ReplyDeleteSo if you are wanting to be with the one you love just follow them and hope for the best and no-matter what you can know that you will be together if that is what you are made for. Stay together and follow your heart.
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Anthem doesn't really inspire me. As a 15 year old, I don't really think about politics unless I am pulled into a conversation about them. I can not think of a movie or book that I have seen or read that I can relate to Anthem. As a student that is under age, I don't really have any rights.
ReplyDeleteYou shouldn't be so close-minded about it and open up to reason. Even as someone who is 15 years old, you have many rights you should be considering. If you think you're life is going to get any better when you get more rights as an adult then you should think again. You already have many rights, almost as much any older person would have.
Deletewell the responsiblility to be a student is to do all my work and pass all my grades. also to play sport to support our team/school, and to show how much i like it. last thing is to go to collage and get a degree and get a good job to support the family i will have.
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ReplyDeleteAnthem reminds me of another book I have read before, called Ugly. I is about this society where they have an operation at the age 16 to become pretty, or perfect. Before the operation they are like outcasts and live in a house together outside the city. They are forced to have this operation done and their way of thinking is altered once they do.
This reminds me of Anthem because they don't have a choice in their society. They are forced to think as one and do as their brother, or their punished.
Both of these books make me realize that I do have rights right now as a human being. Every human should have these rights. Rights of choice and freedom, but it also makes me realize government holds all power (not that I already didn't know that before). If the government chooses something and forces it upon us, its going to take a whole lot more work to get our right back.
I feel that this book can relate to many movies like titanic or the notebook. No its not a romance but the women in these movies can relate to the people in the Anthem. By this i mean the woman in titanic falls in love with a man that her society (upper class) sees as unfit for her. They would much rather her conform to the way the rest of her society and marry a rich man. The same for the notebook. Like her mother the girl is supposed to follow in her footsteps and marry a man that they find to be fit for their society.
ReplyDeleteThe novel anthem reminds me of The Titanic. I think of this because when he gets to the forest and settles in he feels so free and loose spirited. Kind of like the girl is when shes standing on the railing.No worries at all. Our society is completely different than their society when looking at how individual we are and how much they are all alike. Have numbers as names, we are free and theyre like hampsters on a running wheel.This novel was soo confusing to me.. when I thought there was just one person and they said we I still wanted to think that there was really more than one person there. Towards the end of the book I fanally kind of put two and two together and made it make much more sence.
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This book makes me think about the book the giver. I haven't read the entire thing but i have heard bits and pieces and it sounds like the giver is also based on a secluded society that has hidden meanings in politics and other ideas like that. Anthem makes me grateful of the world I live in. I couldn't imagine a life like that.. But if i was raised in that book, would i know any different? This book makes me think: would I be the one to rise above this terrible way of life, or would I hide in the mass of the Great We and think nothing of it.
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Deletei agree with you honeywell because i would like to think that i would rise above that society, but if i grew up there then would i? its one of those questions that you cant really answer until something like that happens to you.
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ReplyDeleteAnthem inspires me to help support world peace that way nothing happens to create the unmentionable times.I cant say that i think about politics and philosophy the same as rand, maybe similar but not quite the samed.the book kinda reminds me of a movie called the island because on the island the people are clones but they think that they survived a crisis and the people in charge kinda act like the people in the book. this book definitly makes me love our society the way it is, because i couldnt imagine living in a place that that. anthem makes me want to be better as a student and citizen so that it can help our society now not turn up to be corrupt.
The society in Anthem definitely not a fair one. It may seem fair before you read the book, but no one can be considered as their own one person. I would absolutely hate that! Our own society does have its up and downs. Ups as in being able to do what we love! The downside being jealous. I have a problem with that. The "unfair" society would seem to work well with jealousy... but we have to express our own personalities and live out who we are!
ReplyDeleteI thought that in anthem it was pretty messed up how they cant have anything that is personal at all. I thought that the author did a really good job at describing how it was and how there life was. Im going to relate they author to the author of the book house who was feank perretti and ted dekker because I thought they were also really good at making you understand what was going on in the book.
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When we read Anthem i was connecting it to the Cidy of Ember. These books are alike because neither of the poeple in the book get to pick their jobs. I would hate to live in a society like that because i know what i want to do with my life and i dont want anyone to change that. I dont take authorty well when it comes to stuff like that so i would be super hard for me. I would probably run away also!
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The one thing that reminds me of anthem is the hunger games because in the hunger games the society is controlled by the government aned the people don't do anything about it. Another thing that reminds me of anthem is when I was little I found a cave and it had stuff in it from the 1800 and that reminds me of the train station in anthem because we both found a place to go away from everyone else to hangout.
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When we read that Equality was a street sweeper, it reminded me of a great movie called The Legand of Bagger Vance. The movie is about an old man telling his story of how he came to love the game of golf. His story takes place during the Great Depression. In the movie, his dad is one of the few people able to get any job to support his family. So he got a job as a street sweeper, but the boy was ashamed of his father's job.
ReplyDeleteAnthem reminds me of a book i read in eighth grade called seeker or something like that. Its about a world that is all the same and have certian jobs and thiers one special good that allows you to use your mind and see colos and even feel feelings which no one has. This allows the kid to becoome powerful and set himself free along with others. This book relates to anthem in mnay other ways. And no i dont deal with politics and philophosohys...? SuperMan10
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree with the folks. This book reminds me of politics and government in the sense that the government in both book and reality totally blow. I'm going to say this right now. Remember, this is my opinion. Not everybody is equal. I don't care if it's unfair to say that. Life's unfair. But regardless people should be seen and treated as equals. I don't really know what anthem reminds me of. So I'm going to name my favorite color, book, and food. Purple, Hatchet, Dominos Pizza. I dunno.
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Anthem inspires many things in me such as the inspiration to stand up and make a difference, no matter how small it may seem. Anthem makes me think of our own government in many ways, questioning the stability and whether or not we will always have freedoms. I believe that the government has denied us of many freedoms already. Anthem reminds me of The Giver since they both take place in dystopian lands. As I stated previously, it makes me think of my rights and the rights of others in our country. When we don't have simple rights, I question the freedom our country claims we have.
ReplyDeleteI never think about our society or politics. I just live life going through it day by day trying to make each day the best I can. Im sure once i get older i will think about that stuff more but as of right now im 16 years old and could really care less. Probably once i get a job i will think about that stuff more too. (i hope to get a job soon!!!!!!!!)
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Anthem kinda reminds me of a lot of different things. One thing I think about when I read it is a book called "Matched." I don't know what the rest of the books are called, but the first one is "Matched." The main character lives in a society similar to Equallity's, except it's more futuristic. The Society decides all things for you. When you wake up, what you eat, where you work, and even who you are to be with for the rest of your life.
ReplyDeletethis book definitely made me question my place in society and i wouldnt like a society like Equality's, it doesnt strike me as something that i would want to be a part of and though i cant relate this book to any movies or anything else that i have read or seen i can say that its a good book and i have nothing against what Equality did and i agree with how he handled the situation, it was for the better that he got out of there, and the book got better when he could have another human around in his freedom agreeing with what everyone else thought was wrong.
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ANTHEM IS A GOOD BOOK BUT IT MADE ME THINK OF MY LIFE AND WHERE I LIFE AND LIKE HOW I TOLD HAVE TO BE TOLD WHAT TO EVERY DAY LIKE YA MY PARENTS TELL ME TO DO THINGS BUT WITH ANTHEM ITS LIKE THEY NO RIGHT THEY DON'T HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO WHAT THEY LIKE UNLIKE US WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT BECAUSE WE HAVE FREEDOM.THE BOOK MAKES ME APPRECIATE ALOT THE SOCIETY WERE IN BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RIGHT TI SPEAK OUT AND THEY COULDN'T SPEAK OUT FOR THEM SELF'S
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