Anthem Parts 9-10, Line Illuminator

Anthem, by Ayn Rand

     "We have followed you," they said, "and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation."

     I chose this quote because it ensured me that Liberty 5-000 truly loves Equality now and it gave me the thought that they will stay together forever. Now, Liberty 5-000 doesn't care about breaking the laws anymore. She thinks like Equality which was the cause of love between them and it made me more curious about what will happen in the story and if the love will impact the story.

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     "We bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, but when we touched them, it was as if madness had stricken us. We seized their body and we pressed our lips to theirs. "

     This quote clearly represents love between Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-000. I believe that it made the audience 100% sure that the two characters love each other. I have been thinking till now that love has been growing between them since they met each other. However, there were some people who thought that it wasn't love. They thought that it was a feeling of panic because they broke the laws. This quote ensured the readers that the strange feeling which Equality mentioned was love. 

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Line Illuminator Part 11 & 12

Line Illuminator
Part 11 & 12
Julianna Mello

 Line #1: This line was actually the title of part 11 but I choose it because I found it so powerful.

I am. I think. I will.

They way the author wrote this really made me think because this is almost if you were inside Equality 7-2521's head. The way he says it is as if it were some kind of routine, as if in his head it must happen. I think of it as a to do list  for his success in this "new land" he has just discovered. I like how this line is in away out of order, but is also natural. Thinking should always come first but in the line I am came first because it's natural. People always say think before you speak but in my opinion I am represents you are who you are, and if you're not capable of thinking before you speak then that's that.

Line #2: The sacred word: EGO

This was the last line of the book and it was amazing. It basically rounds up the whole book in your mind on why Ayn Rand wrote this. It's so interesting because in away the people were just trying to protect them from this thing called ego. In reality Equality didn't need protection from this because he was in such an isolated place. But if he wasn't people's ego would get in other people's way's as their self- esteems would be at different levels. After reading this entire book I honestly think that it has changed the way I think, and for now on when I am in a dark place I'll look at my wrist and pretend there's a band saying... What would Equality 7-2521 do?

Anthem -- Line Illuminator -- 9/10 -- Julia Jacob

While reading chapter 10 or the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand I came across a very interesting line that Equality 7-2521 describes a mirror without having any knowledge of what he is looking at. "There were great pieces of glass on the wall, but it was not glass, for when we look upon it we saw our own bodies and all the things behind us, as on the face of a lake." This is very interesting because since the society he lives in cannot have any form of individuals, or showing individuality, there were no mirrors available to the citizens. This is because everyone had to thing as a group, or "share" the same thoughts. No one could have their own accomplishments such as the light box. 

Line Illuminator

Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Parts 7-8

"We did not wish to move. We thought suddenly that we could lie thus as long as we wished, and we laughed aloud at the thought. We could also rise, or run, or leap, or fall down again. "

    
     For me, this quote was very touching because it showed me that Equality 7-2521 has finally found freedom. Now, he can do whatever he wants, think whatever he wants and create new inventions. It gave me a brief idea that Equality 7-2521is going to escape totally from the community and is going to start a new life. I am predicting that he will identify the secrets the Councils are hiding and is going to reveal them. I think that Equality thinks that he is no longer in the community because he now thinks that he can do what he wants. He now also knows how he looks like so this shows me that he is now knowing everything step by step. 

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"It took fifty years to secure the approval of all the Councils for the Candle, and to decide upon the number needed, and to re-fit the Plans so as to make candles instead of torches. This touched upon thousands and thousands of men working in scores of States.

     To me, I found this quote very interesting because it was very shocking to me. I realised that the Councils took very long to make one decision. To me, I believe that it took the Councils a very long time to secure the approval of all the Councils for the Candle because of the danger which might be brought to the community. They must think, consider and calculate the situation which might be brought by every single movement. 

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Part 5&6: Line Illuminator

September 7th 2014
Julianna(Juli) Mello
Line Illuminator part 5 and 6

Line #1: "We brought it forth from the night of the ages." When I first read part 4 I didn't think that the whole idea of electricity would be that important but now reading on it is basically molding the story. After Equality 7-2521 discovered the power of electricity and what it can do he makes it goal to find out what more it can do. While he's going through the tunnel he keeps on repeating "The light... The light... The light". Something I noticed is the more you read the more repetition you spot hidden in the text. 

Line #2: "We opened our eyes, lying on our stomach on the brick floor of a cell." Even though the people are kept from the outside world and don't know about a lot of things they don't call it home they call it their "cell". They don't realize that this cell is where they've been their entire lives. This really does remind me of City of Ember, because they call it home since we don't know anywhere else. But don't we all do that... We all have wonderful homes with all our basic needs but there're are people out there who have much less but still call it home as it's all they know.

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.




    

Anthem: Line Illuminator

Title: Anthem Part 1 and 2 by Julianna Mello
Rotation #1
Line Illuminator

Repeated words

Line #1: "Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it. We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall. Ever have the Teachers and the Leaders pointed to us and frowned and said:

"There is evil in your bones, Equality 7-2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers." But we cannot change our bones nor our body" -Part 1

I feel that this line really is about someone who really wants to make a change, but finds that they can't due to their surroundings. This line helped me understand the whole "Equality 7-2521" situation. The narrater treats this thing as if it is some kind of code. When the narrater is describing the six foot tall man it's almost as they're saying that this person is breaking the "code" in someway. I chose that top image because just by reading this line and the parts before it you could already spot some words being repeated. The words repeated make the book easier to process as I can already tell this book is going to be more on the challenging side.  

We as I

Line #2: We had broken so many laws, and today we have broken one more. Today, we spoke to the Golden One. 

 I put this line here not so much for the story but for the wording and the way it has been written. As you walk through the book a little bit more you will begin to catch on to the "We" vs. "I". If you are having trouble keeping up with the story it really helps to replace we with I. Before I read a little more my theory was that the narrater said we because they were in a group as writing a "sin".  I'm looking forward to the comments. Did you agree? Did you have your own theory?