Anthem study guide Chapter 1-12

Anthem study guide Chapter 1-12

What is a dystopian society? - ✔✔The direct opposite of a Utopian society.

Who is the narrator? What is the point of view? - ✔✔Equality 7-2521 and First person

What is the motto engraved over the portals on the Palace of the World Council? - ✔✔We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

What is the prayer they recite every night? - ✔✔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.

What do these tell you about this futuristic world? - ✔✔It shows the collective / group is the most important thing

What is the Home of Infants? What transgression does he commit here? - ✔✔A home for children 0 years of age to 5 years of age and He fought people.

What is the Home of Students? What transgression does he commit here? - ✔✔A home for ages 5 to 15 for ten years of learning and his brain is too quick learning is very easy for him and it is evil to be superior to your brothers.

What is the Council of Vocations? - ✔✔The Council who decides what your job will be for the rest of your time until you turn 40.

What is the Transgression of Preference? - ✔✔Sin of preferring one over another- liking one thing over another

What do all these Homes have in common? - ✔✔They are very strict and adhere to a schedule- each home has 100 men per house, they contain only those who are required to live there, they are white, bare, and save of all things but 100 beds

What purpose does this serve? - ✔✔maintains order- everyone has the same and there is nothing different

What is the Science of Things? - ✔✔Subject in school that teaches the ways of the world- but they understand things that are very backwards- flat world sun revolves around the earth

What do you understand the Great Rebirth to be? - ✔✔When society changed to the way it is now- Revolution to change it collectivist

What is the Home of the Useless? An Old One? An Ancient One? - ✔✔People of the age 40 go here and do nothing. An old one is 40 years old. An ancient one is 45 years old.

Since this is a novel about the future, what do you think has become of the world as we know it? - ✔✔It has devolved- society has reverted backward before modern technology or any technology

What is the Life Mandate? - ✔✔Job that you will work until you are 40.

What happens to Equality 7-2521 when he appears before the Council of Vocations to receive his Life Mandate? - ✔✔He gets assigned to a Street Sweeper

How do you explain the way in which he received his Assignment? - ✔✔he was assigned Street Sweeper in order to keep all the smarter people

What is his life like for the next four years? - ✔✔The same thing everyday

What does his future hold for him? - ✔✔Same thing everyday until he was 40.

Who are Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818? - ✔✔These are the two men Equality works with everyday sweeping the streets

What is the Uncharted Forest? - ✔✔unexplored area that no one is allowed to go into

What are the Unmentionable Times - ✔✔It is the past but in actuality is the time we currently live in

What does Equality find? - ✔✔a subway tunnel

Why does International say, "May the Council have mercy upon both of our hearts!" (34)? - ✔✔He is afraid the council will find out their secret but he will not betray Equality

For the next two years, what does he do about about/with his Discovery? - ✔✔He sneaks out, studies , steals stuff from the other houses and sits in the tunnel for 3 hours learning

Just by going there, what great transgression does he commit? - ✔✔Going down there to learn things they don't teach in the schools and also being alone by himself

How does International help him? - ✔✔He does not tell anyone about the tunnel and allows Equality to sneak back into the line on the way back home

What other transgressions does Equality commit? - ✔✔not going to Social Recreation, writing, being alone, stealing stuff, doing work he was not assigned to do

Who lives in the Home of Peasants? - ✔✔Women who work the fields

Who is Liberty 5-3000? - ✔✔blonde hair girl that Equality notices that he likes

Why is Equality attracted to her? - ✔✔physical appearance and she looks confident and fearless

What forms of expression do their feelings for each other take? - ✔✔look at each other, smile, simple hand gestures

Why are they so hesitant and cautious? - ✔✔against the rules for men to notice women and vice versa

What is the Council of Eugenics? - ✔✔people who decide who will mate with whom

What is the City Palace of Mating? - ✔✔where every spring men over 20 women over 18 go to mate

Read pages 41-43 and explain Equality's interest in Liberty. - ✔✔he sees her strength, her fearlessness, her physical attributes, there is an emotional attraction too

What names do they exchange? - ✔✔Golden One

Why is this significant? - ✔✔they are not allowed to give names, it shows trust and it shows he likes her, gold implies value and individuality- his way of singling her out

As he sits in his tunnel, what does Equality recognize as the WORD that describes the feeling that is always among his brothers? - ✔✔Fear

Even though he is committing serious transgressions, for which he can be severely punished, why does he feel no fear in the tunnel? - ✔✔the air is pure and he is doing what he wants he is learning and enjoying his time there

What is the feeling of the Council toward happiness? - ✔✔as long as you work for your brothers you are happy toiling for your brothers makes you happy

Why might his behavior still arouse suspicion? - ✔✔his body is happy, he sings for no reason and he does not hide his emotions

What would seem to suggest there are others who are also

deeply troubled by the world in which they are forced to live? - ✔✔Equality talks about his brothers who cry out in the middle of the night screaming, "Help me! Help me!" and there is another who will collapse for no reason and cry and scream and no one knows

What further details do you find concerning the Uncharted Forest? - ✔✔no one is allowed there and anyone who has gone there has died because they have not returned, only one in hundred year has gone to the forest- yet for some reason Equality is

The Dawn of the Great Rebirth? - ✔✔this is when Equality's society comes into existence when all the material/ideas of the Evil Ones was burned

The Great Script Fires? - ✔✔when all the material/ideas of the Evil Ones was burned

What is the only crime punishable by death in this world? - ✔✔speaking the Unspeakable Word

What is the effect on Equality when, as a child, he views the execution of The Transgressor of the Unspeakable Word (the Saint of the Pyre)? - ✔✔they made eye contact and he sees the man as a saint and feels as if the Saint of the Pyre was trying to communicate something to him, he just did not know what it was

What is the discovery of nature that Equality makes? - ✔✔He discovers the many powers of electricity- through the frog , thunderstorms, metal and copper

With this discovery, to what does he dedicate himself? - ✔✔learn more- discover how to use this power and others that may have been lost

In what way does the meeting between Equality and Liberty seal the bond between

them? - ✔✔They give each other names: Golden One and The Unconquered

What does he wish for now that he had not thought about before?Why? - ✔✔He wishes what he could see what he looks like- because he is proud of himself

What is the thing he has created in the tunnel? - ✔✔lightbulb

What does he think of as the good that can come from this discovery? - ✔✔can light the city and other cities of the world- cleaner, brighter, and help his brothers

How is he going to make his gift known? - ✔✔World Council of Scholars will be in his city next month and he will present it to them