Response To Anthem By Ayn Rand
Anthem
Tayler Konkol
My choice book is called Anthem by Ayn Rand and it was published in 1946. This book is about a boy who is frowned upon by his elders and peers because of his height. He struggles with lots of issues regarding school and trying to get the job he wants. This book was placed in the future so there are people who control what job he gets by looking at him and his appearance and they tell him what career he is going to work at, for the rest of his life. For the second third of my book. Their experiments have finally paid off. They discovered a light bulb. But they can't tell anybody, because they won't understand their love for science.
There are two interesting passages that I discovered that talk a lot about his traits as a character. The first one is about his appearance. “The eyes are dull… the shoulders are hunched, muscles were drawn as if our bodies were shrinking…“ (Rand 47). This passage is interesting because it tells us how his body was shrinking, like he was put to work too much. He’s not the same person as he is in the beginning of the book because he is so worn out now from not having proper care. The second passage that I thought was interesting is about the characters thoughts was “So much is to …show more content…
“...from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to go forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before. And when we put our wires into this box, when we close the current – the wire glowed! It came to life, it turned red, and a circle of light lay on the stone before us.“(Rand 63-64). This passage is great because this passage really gives the reader an image in their mind. It’s like the reader knows more about the situation than the characters do because they think it’s a box of glass that glows when they put wires in it but really it’s a lightbulb that the just discovered. So this is a good passage for
Tayler Konkol
My choice book is called Anthem by Ayn Rand and it was published in 1946. This book is about a boy who is frowned upon by his elders and peers because of his height. He struggles with lots of issues regarding school and trying to get the job he wants. This book was placed in the future so there are people who control what job he gets by looking at him and his appearance and they tell him what career he is going to work at, for the rest of his life. For the second third of my book. Their experiments have finally paid off. They discovered a light bulb. But they can't tell anybody, because they won't understand their love for science.
There are two interesting passages that I discovered that talk a lot about his traits as a character. The first one is about his appearance. “The eyes are dull… the shoulders are hunched, muscles were drawn as if our bodies were shrinking…“ (Rand 47). This passage is interesting because it tells us how his body was shrinking, like he was put to work too much. He’s not the same person as he is in the beginning of the book because he is so worn out now from not having proper care. The second passage that I thought was interesting is about the characters thoughts was “So much is to …show more content…
“...from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to go forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before. And when we put our wires into this box, when we close the current – the wire glowed! It came to life, it turned red, and a circle of light lay on the stone before us.“(Rand 63-64). This passage is great because this passage really gives the reader an image in their mind. It’s like the reader knows more about the situation than the characters do because they think it’s a box of glass that glows when they put wires in it but really it’s a lightbulb that the just discovered. So this is a good passage for