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In chapter 1, Equality, the main character and narrator, out right says ,"It is a sin to write this." We learn that the society that he lives in is lacking of any real freedom for everyone. No one is allowed to think alone, be alone, or even act alone. Equality learns of what preference is and wishes to the bottom of his heart to get into the Home of the Schoolars, but is inserted into the Home of the Street Sweepers. He and his friend International, while working, found a hatch that lead to a tunnel, where they hide in order to speak to each other and find solitude.
International and Equality both meet Liberty, a girl who works in a field across from them. They con't talk, but they comunicate through eyesight and movements. Equality fears losing Liberty, but doesn't know why. Liberty seems to be interested in Equality aswell because she smiles when she sees him. At this time, Liberty is 17, and Equality gets furious because he will not be with her when they go to the Palace of Mating. Equality and International have given her a name, The Golden One. Equality starts to notice how desolate the society is and how many problems there are with the people and the government, and wishes to change things, and wants to figure out what the "Unspeakable Word" is.
In chapter 3, Equality says he has found a new power and is the only other man to know of it. The power he says he found, he first saw two years ago in biology is the reason why the frog continued to move, because of the tools and brine that was involved. The power proves many of the things the scholars have taught him are wrong, and that it has even more to it. He calls this power, the power of the sky, because it is similar to the lightning that strikes the metal rods around the city. He thinks this power may relate to some metal coils and glass baubles he has found...
When Equality meets with Liberty again, he decides to reveal to her that he has given her a name, "The Golden One." She says she also has given a name to Equality in her mind, "The Unconquered." When Equality tells her not to obey him, she is confused by his choice of "Our dearest one." After asking if Equality was thirsty, she held her hands, with the water from the moat, to his mouth for him to drink. When he finished, both of them were confused of why they did this, and they were afraid to understand.
After fiddiling with the coils of metal and the glass baubles, Equality has used the power of the sky to create light by the power. He has the "bright" idea of how it could be used to light the entire city, his tunnel, everywhere, and no longer need to use candles. He realizes what he must do, he must show it to his brother men. He plans to, in a month, show the World Council of Scholars his invention. He hopes that, somehow, it will let him be accepted as a scholar and learn more of the world, that his invention will be a large breakthrough. He must hide it until then, and protect it with his life.
After writing the last chapter, Equality says he had not written for thirty days. We learn that when he finished writting, he noticed that he had waited too long and had missed his que to go and go back to the theater. When he ran back to the Home of the Street Sweepers, he was found by his superiors and is taken to be whipped till he tells of where he was. He stays determined to keep his secrets, although it feels like they are cutting him apart with the whip. Few nights later, before the day the World Council of Scholars come, be breaksout of the ward and hides in his tunnel. He says that he will bring the invention to them, they will forgive him of his sins... He will be accepted into the Home of the Scholars...
Equality Bursts into the building that the World Council of Scholars are in, no one stops him on his way, as the streets are barren. He tells the council that he has something that will help the future of mankind. He tells them of the story of how he found the wires and bulbs, found a way to get the power of the sky to spark in the wires, and putting them all together made the light. The Scholars are not impressed, and tell him that introducing this into the society would ruin the candle economy and would be expensive to do so. They get angry when he agrees that his did this on his own and chant that the light must be destroyed. Equality leaps for his invention and runs out, and continues to run until he reaches the forest, his new home.
After the first day of his exilement, Equality finds peace in him being alone. He finds joy in his doing, for he is no longer tainted by the cruel and strict rules of the city. He easily survives on what he can, he can hunt and drink water from the stream he lives near. When drinking from the stream, he finally sees his face, and it is not desolate like his brothers'. His face, he says, is beautiful, it wasn't like his brothers... and he didn't feel pitty looking at it.
It had been few days since writting, Equality says, because he hasn't had much of anything to say. Today was different, as he found that Liberty, The Golden One, had followed him by his footprints in the mud. She did this as a way to show her comittment to him. He accepts her, and they walk together through the forest, building walls of fire and flame from campfires. They question if it really is bad to do something alone, and if doing things together is so great at all. One day, The Golden One hesitates, and says "We Love You.", and she feels torn, so does Equality, because they cannot find the word that they want to use.
We are greated by Equalitay saying he and Liberty had found a house after days of climbing mountains and crossing plains. The house was two stories and had a flat roof, they knew that it was from the Unmetionable Times. They discover stained glass, colourful clothes, and many, many books of information and history of the past. They agree that thye will never leave the place, and will build off of the place, and make it their home. Equality still asks what the word he is searching for his, for speaking of yourself, it is his only ambition.
Equality explains his new formed knowledge, and has gained a new pronoun, "I". He tells us of how he is not a tool, a toy of another person, he will not be used as one any longer. He speaks of how he will not give everyone love or trust, as they must earn it. The word ,"We", is a poison to the world, it is what causes most evil, as it replaces a man's value by refering themself as to everyone. "We", Is a evil that will crush all under it, as it blends everyone into the same gross pot. The only god, the only good of the world, is the word, "I".
Equality understands why he exists, why he continued to break rules and cause transgressions... It was to find the word, "I". He must protect it, spread it, and cleanse the people who were forced to forget their selfworth. He and Liberty, now known as Prometheus and Gaea because of the similarities to their backstories, have built upon the house, creating more lights to sepertate themselves from the evils of "WE". They have had their first child, and they will learn and bare the honor of the word "I". Prometheus will find and take his friends to his refuge, and teach them of their ways, for they will never need to suffer anymore. He and his friends will fight against the evils... and save what is left of what the truth to life is... your EGO.
Equality is the main character of Anthem, he is a white male, alike his brothers. Other than that, it is all he has in common with his fellow males, as he is taller than most and he is much quicker in thought than others. As a result, he was punished many times in the Home of the Students. In the following weeks, he had started to grow a passion for learning and questioning, and he wanted to become a scholar, but instead became a street sweeper. He later found a hatch to a tunnel, where he wrote, tinkered, and took the many stolen items he took for his experiments. Later, when he would try to show his brothers his invention, they wanted to destroy it, so he ran away, meeting Liberty, creating their own civiliaztion, and would plan to revolt against the people who used the word "WE" to destroy the value of words and people.
Nick Ronbinson
Liberty, like almost every other woman, was a farm worker, spreading out seeds in tilled soil out in the fields. When she first meets Equality, it's just by simple eye contact, then soon to face to face chatter. Everytime she encounters Equality, they seem to grow closer and closer. When she gives Equality water, they both are scared by the feeling of passion. When Equality is exiled, she rebels and goes off to live with him. She becomes his disciple and follows in his teachings. They later procreate, and create a colony with their rescued friends and children.
To a self-sufficent town that he and his people made by hand, sweat, and blood. They weren't forced to live with no meaning, and recreated many technologies that had been lost to time.
Equality went from a semi-worndown town that used no types of power and used flame for light...