Blog Five

1) What does the uncharted forest represent in Anthem?
The uncharted forest represents the society as it is trying to from the rest of the citizens. This is because the forest is supposed to be somewhere people fear due to the fact that their individuality and free will is impossible to be expressed here. There are said to be many more forests than the main one discussed and they are all said to have grown over ruins of the Unmentionable Times. I think that the uncharted forest represents knowledge and education. The community fears the forest like they fear education because they know the details of the Great Burning and no one wishes to have the same fate. They fear education because it requires change and the changes might not be that easy. The people fear intellect because they do not wish to have their own thoughts or make their own discoveries. Equality is the perfect example of someone that does not fit in with the rest of his crowd because he develops his own thoughts and he makes his own discoveries. Equality escapes to the uncharted forest after his attempt to bring his community to individuality and curiosity fails. He says earlier in the book that he feared the forest, but he also said that he did not remember running to the forest; that his feet had just taken him there. His mind knew that he was different and that he needed to be separated from the community that feared everything. The uncharted forest represents determination, free will, curiosity, individuality and intelligence.
2.) Describe the house from Chapter X and its contents in your own words, and explain why Liberty and Equality find it so strange and unique.The house was a home of someone during the Unmentionable times. The house is something that we live in now. It has electricity (although Equality needs to find out how to fix it), mirrors that they can see themselves in for the first time, bedrooms, colorful clothes, a kitchen, windows, and a fireplace. They find it so strange and unique because they aren’t used to it. They have never seen themselves in a mirror, so they don’t know what to think.
3.) Explain the following quotes from Chapter XI in your own words, and discuss how they can be applied to your life:a) “Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me.”b) “For the word 'We' must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought.”A: This quote means, to me, that he will only follow the guiding star for now, and will never follow another man.B: The quote is an extremely powerful one. When he said, “A second thought”, he meant that we will always remember his past, and what he was always told to do. But it is still one’s choice if he wants to use it or not, because in this new world, everyone is free.

BLOG 4

Question 1.
I would prefer not to live in that society. Each INDIVIDUAL is expected to be the same as the next. I don't think that is correct in any sense. No one should be expected to be like the next person or hold the same beliefs, morals, or traditions of another. The country is not ran by a President like the United States. They are ran by a council. This council is more so a dictatorship. Marriage is frowned upon. Technology wasn't very relevant and neither was education.

Question 2
When does this novel take place—in the past, the present, or the future? How do you know? Please provide specific clues from the text.I feel that the novel takes place in the future. For some reason, I feel that the tunnel Equality finds is something created by our generation. Plus, Anthem is a good example of how society could become.


Question 3
Electricity was discovered in Chapter 3. I would've used electricity for cooking, air, telephones, lighting(in the night), and television if it existed.

In question 5
the Council gave legitimate, but stupid reasons to not accept the lightbulb into society. The legitimate reasons include: the task of converting the world over from candles, the efforts to power the lightbulbs, the fact that a non-scholar came up with the discovery, and the difficulty to convert lighting again, as candles were fully accepted a few decades prior. While all of these are true, they are also stupid. In their society, these reasons make sense. But the true intentions behind these 'excuses' are very obvious. The intentions are primarily the fear of disrupting the society, jealousy, and the incredible advancements it could be applied to in the society, all of which could cripple the diligate reality they all live in.

(B)
"I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals , and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.", she was basically saying that people make decisions for on there own as an individual. However, those who depend on the opinons of others and what they find is right or wrong, she feels are not on the same level as those who make decisions as an individual.

QUESTION D

(D)
"the country of individualism was finally allowed to discover Ayn Rand's novel of individualism."
When he said the country of individualism I feel that he was saying the U.S. is a country that has a social outlook that stresses independence and self-reliance. I believe that individualism is some sense the same as freedom. On the other hand i don't believe my view of america clashes with Ayn Rand's view of individualism all the way.

Questions For Sept. 30 (Introdcution Reading)

(A)
I disagree, because my point of view is limited to myself others may have another point of view which could reinforce my original opinion or because there point of view is flawed my original opinion is proven to be true. To the next question i beleive that he would have changed his opinion.

AYN RAND

In Ayn Rand's excerpts i felt that they both stated meaningful thins that are really the same. In Man's Rights she states about moral codes and codes that human live by which was also stated in the other one. I felt as if they had minor differences if any. If i were to compare and contrast both I would tell the similarities that the words that were in both look the same but were meant for different causes.
In Rand's Man Rights, she voiced her opinion on rights people have as an individual. As I stated she spoke of moral codes and codes that humans are subject to follow often. Ayn also states how human rights seem to be so new to people that many don't really show their rights no respect.
When defined collectivism means a political or economic theory advocating collective control especially over production and distribution.Mainly this is what Rand was discussing in her excerpt on Collectivized "Rights". These big words really describe types control that different areas across the world practice. This reading was very much different than the Man Rights.

WORDS OF WISDOM (ANTHEM by AYN)

Collectivism: The act of someones ownership or management.
Individualism: The pursuit of individual actions rather than collective groups.
Socialism: The act of organizations showing ownership or control over certain things.
Capitalism: The act of organizations privately and corporately showing control or ownership over certain things.
Communism: organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

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