What is Equality’s feeling when he awakens the next day in the Uncharted Forest? …
He is happy and all the things he has done for himself fill him full of pride
; Anthem is a song of pride which is what Equality feels more and more as he’s away from the society.
What is equality 7-2521’s feeling when he awakens the next day in the uncharted forest?
Equality 7-2521 wakes in the forest and realizes that for the first time in his life, he is waking because he
is rested
and not because someone is ringing a bell to wake him. He observes the forest in some detail, and it seems magnificent to him.
What feeling is equality experiencing at the start of Chapter 8 in the uncharted forest?
What is Equality experiencing for the first time chapter 8 and what does he feel as a result? The freedom of making his own choices and decisions. He
feels joy and control over his life
.
What emotion is equality feeling at the beginning of Chapter 5?
Describe the emotion that Equality is feeling at the beginning of Chapter 5.
Personal pride
in an individual accomplishment. He wants to make a contribution to his society. What does Equality expect will happen if he shows his discovery to the Council?
What is equality experiencing for the first time in this chapter and what does he feel as a result?
What is Equality experiencing for the first time this morning? How does he feel as a result of this experience?
The freedom of making his own choices and decisions
. He is dancing around and laughing and experiencing a new sense of enjoyment and control over his own life.
What is equality 7-2521’s life like for the next four years?
Equality 7-2521’s life is the same routine for the next four years of being
a Street Sweeper
.
What is the first thing Equality 7-2521 does when he gets up on his first day in the forest?
Equality 7-2521’s first day in the forest is astonishing to him.
His first impulse is to leap to his feet as he has every day of his life, but then he realizes that no bell has rung
. The forest has no Councils to tell him what to do, no authorities that must be instantly obeyed.
What is the first thing equality does in Chapter 8?
Equality’s First Morning in the Forest
In Chapter 8, Equality 7-2521 wakes up in the Unchartered Forest for the first time. At first,
he shoots up and thinks of heading off to work as he had to do in the community
. When he realizes that he does not have to do this anymore, he lays back down.
What is equality experiencing for the first time this morning how does he feel as a result of this experience how do you know use evidence to support your statement?
Equality, who still thinks of himself with the collective we,
knows he is free to make his own choices
, a heady new experience for him. He can lie or leap. It is his call. Laughter expresses the feeling of joy that radiates through Equality the first morning he experiences freedom, as seen in the quote above.
How does equality feel about liberty?
So, one day while he’s doing his street sweeping near the fields, Equality 7-2521 sees
Liberty 5-3000 at work and gets a crush on her
. She is attractive and her eyes in particular are striking: “no fear in them, no kindness, and no guilt” (2.4).
What does Equality discover in this chapter?
While dissecting a frog hanging on a copper wire, Equality 7-2521 discovers
the power of electricity
, which he explores in his tunnel underground. In his journal, he recounts his experiments: he makes a magnet move using electricity and creates a lighting rod outside the tunnel.
What emotion is feeling in Anthem?
He suddenly feels like being an individual who is different from everyone else. He is feeling
personal pride
. Discuss why Equality is so interested in seeing his own image at this point in the novel.
What does Equality wish in Chapter 5 that he never thought about before?
In chapter Five, what does he wish for now that he had not thought about before? Why?
He wants to share his discovery with the world because he is proud of it and thinks it can help others.
Where does equality go and why?
Equality 7-2521 goes
to the World Council of Scholars to show them his electric light
. They want to kill him and destroy is invention. Equality 7-2521 decides it’s time to leave the City for good. Equality 7-2521 flees into the Uncharted Forest, where he won’t be followed.
How is equality different from his brothers?
How is equality 7-2521 different from his brothers? Why might this be bad?
He was different because he was smarter than the others
, but he had to pretend to be dumb. He is also taller than everyone else in his society, and he shows preference.
Why does equality choose a new name?
Equality 7-2521 chooses the name
Prometheus for himself
in part as a reference to his inventing the lightbulb and in part because he believes he will bring a new philosophy of individualism to the earth. … He chooses this name for her because she will, in his belief, give birth to a race of gods to rule the earth.
What does equality do about his discovery for the next two years?
For the next two years, what does Equality do in relationship to his discovery?
Every night he slips away from the Theatre and studies in the tunnel
. Just by going there what great transgression does he commit? He is not supposed to be down there; he is supposed to be in the theatre.
What does equality look like in Anthem?
A street sweeper, the protagonist of the novella. Equality 7-2521, who later renames himself Prometheus, believes in individualism and rejects the collectivist society around him. He is
vain and self-centered, strong, beautiful, and intelligent
.
What does equality 7-2521 think of as the good that can come from this discovery?
What discovery of nature does Equality 7-2521 make? With this discovery, to what does Equality 7-2521 dedicate himself?
Where is equality 7-2521 at the start of the story?
Always referring to himself as “we,” a youth named Equality 7-2521 writes in a journal from underground, where he is alone
in an abandoned railroad tunnel
.
Where is equality at the beginning of Chapter 7?
Equality 7-2521 is now
in the Uncharted Forest
. He will live there until he is ripped apart by the forest beasts. He describes appearing before the World Council of Scholars that morning and greeting them.
Why do you think equality 7-2521 is laughing in the third paragraph?
Why do you think Equality 7-2521 is laughing in the third paragraph?
Because for the first time he finally feels free and happy
. This metaphor is comparing Equality working his way through the forest to swimming through water.
What does equality discover about himself?
He realizes that he is an end in himself and that his happiness is reason enough to live
. With this epiphany, his transformation is complete. He is unafraid and singular, self-important and proud. He has discovered himself and become his own man.
Why was equality pleased with his life mandate?
(1) Why was Equality pleased with his Life Mandate?
He had a way to erase/atone for his curse.
What does equality realize about his own reflection?
Equality 7-2521 comes across a stream and is taken aback by his reflection, which he sees for the first time.
He is struck by his beauty
—his face and body do not inspire pity, like the features of his comrades do. Heartened by his appearance, he realizes that he has “nothing to fear” in his own company.
What does equality say about the word we?
Equality 7-
2521 proclaims that he is forever done with the code of “we
,” with this creed of evil and destruction. He sees clearly the beneficent consequences that can result — as they did in the past — when society recognizes the sacred rights of individuals to mind, soul, values, and life.
How does equality feel about the palace of mating?
Equality 7-2521 thinks that the Palace of mating
is a ugly and shameful matter
. How old is Liberty 5-3000 and why is that important? Liberty is 17 and it matters because when she turns 18 she will have to go to the palace of mating.
What does Equality believe is the most important concept known to man?
By the end, Equality 7-2521 believes
silence
is the most important concept known to man.
How did Equality escape?
How does Equality escape the Palace of Corrective Detention?
He busted down the door. He walks through the door cause there are no guards
.
What are Equality’s sins?
Equality
steals materials for scientific experiments
such as candles, flints, knives, paper, glass vials, manuscripts, powders and acids. After stealing (which is a sin), Equality conducts scientific experiments every night which is illegal because he is not a Scholar.
Why does equality want to see his face?
This
sense of self worth
is why, for the first time, he desires to see his face and know what he looks like. The recognition of his inner beauty leads him to expect that his external demeanor will match it.
What great discovery does Equality make in this chapter Chapter 11?
Equality 7-2521 has finally
discovered the first-person singular
. At last, he tells us, he’s found “the words,” and “the answer,” he was looking for. He, himself, is the meaning of things.
Why does Equality fight against them?
Why does Equality fight against them?
Because he derives joy and happiness from what he’s doing and he doesn’t understand why they would deny people both
that joy and the wonderful discoveries that can be made.
What is Equality 7-2521’s only response when the plan is enforced?
What does Equality 7-2521 say in response to the Council of the Home’s question? Why?
“We will not tell you
“. Equality says this because they do not want to reveal their secret tunnel or their discovery of light to anyone yet, for these things may be destroyed if others know about them.
What emotion is Equality in Chapter 5?
Describe the emotion that Equality is feeling at the beginning of Chapter 5.
Personal pride
in an individual accomplishment. He wants to make a contribution to his society. What does Equality expect will happen if he shows his discovery to the Council?
What is the unspeakable word?
1a :
incapable of being expressed in
words : unutterable. b : inexpressibly bad : horrendous unspeakable living conditions unspeakable evil. 2 : that may not or cannot be spoken the bawdy thoughts that come into one’s head—the unspeakable words— L. P. Smith unspeakable collections of consonants— Rosemary Jellis.
How does Equality meet Liberty?
Equality 7-2521 meets Liberty 5-3000,
a worker in the Home of the Peasants
. She is working in the fields near the road he is sweeping when he sees her and falls in love with her. … She sees him on the road, and the next day, she comes over to the hedges where he is working.
How old is Equality 7-2521 at the time of this story?
Equality 7-2521, a
21-year-old
man writing by candlelight in a tunnel under the earth, tells the story of his life up to that point. He exclusively uses plural pronouns (“we”, “our”, “they”) to refer to himself and others.
