Benet, each of the main characters posses a desire deep within themselves to discover

things that they do not already know about. Equality and John both live in societies where

almost all knowledge of the past has been forgotten. These communities are enveloped in

superstition, which causes them to fear the unknown. The desire within Equality and

John, however, brings them past these fears and leads them to learn many new things

Anthem starts off with Equality feeling as though he sinned for thinking of learning

and discovering new things. He stumbled upon a tunnel one night, something that he

immediately knew was from the unmentionable times. This tunnel provided a place where

Equality could experiment and think as an individual. It was here that he discovered

electricity. Although he was aware that the scholars would be upset at him for disobeying

the laws and performing experiments on his own, Equal

destroying his invention and Equality listened no more. He ran away from the city to the

was in the unmentionable times, the complete opposite from what his elders had taught

though the bitter waters would eat him up. When he successfully made it onto the land of

urgency to follow his dreams and find out the truth pushed John to embark on a journey

the gods, he came upon many things that he had never seen before. He saw a statue of

city where regular humans had lived.

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Approximate Word count = 697
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)