Anthem Part 1-2 Line Illuminator

Andrew Fischer
Job #1 Line Illuminator

 

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Quote 1: 

Anthem (Pages 39-40).
"WE ARE ONE IN ALL AND ALL IN ONE. THERE ARE NO MEN BUT ONLY THE GREAT WE, ONE, INDIVISIBLE AND FOREVER."

     This quote means there are no individuals there is only everyone. Because there are no individuals and there is only everyone, all people are alike. Everyone has the same personality, jobs, and lives, because there are not supposed to be individual. In addition, everyone is treated the same. People are not allowed to have their own thoughts, feelings, or emotions, they are not allowed to do things that make them different or seem different than others.  They cannot do something out of the ordinary that makes them stand out.
     An example of this in the book is that people are not allowed to talk about this quote, or they would be sentenced to the Palace of Corrective Detention.  Only the elders are allowed to speak of it. That is because everyone else does not have the authority to talk about it or to think about it.  They are only to go along with whatever is told.

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Quote 2:


Anthem (Page 57)

"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen."


     This quote means individuals don't exist for themselves, they exist for other people. This shows that people have to live off of other people that are superior over them and are not taught to lean how to live for themselves or take care of themselves. People are dependent in life on those who exist above them.
     In the book, this phrase is what everybody said in their sleeping rooms, because they are supposed to, and their elders made them say this in there sleeping rooms. That is because the people are made to say this phrase, because they are made to.