The novella's point of view is first person. A guy named Equality 7-2521, twenty-one years old is the narrator. He lives in a world where all men must be alike. He was born with a curse. He knows that he is evil but he cannot stop being evil. Equality 7-2521 tells about the time he was in the Home of Infants up until he was five years old. Then, he went to the Home of the Students where he has been learning for ten years. So he stopped learning when he reached the age of fifteen. He was not in the years of the Home of the Students because he thought learning was too easy. He is a quick learner and that is his curse. He tried to fight this curse but he couldn't. In school, he wanted to know what makes the earth, earth. However, the teachers forbids those kinds of questions. After the ten years of learning, the Council of Vocations decides where a person is going to work, like Home for Carpenters, or even Home of the Leaders. Equality 7-2521 was assigned to Home of the Street Sweeper. Also, Equality 7-2521 said when a person reaches forty, they are sent to the Home of the Useless. They don't work anymore. While being a street sweeper, Equality 7-2521 meets Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818. Two springs ago, Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 made a discovery of a big hole. At the "bottom" of the hole, Equality 7-2521 found there was a tunnel. Now he starts sneaking away to the tunnel every night for three hours and reads manuscripts that he stole. After that, he a girl named Liberty 5-3000, assigned to work in the soil. He stared at her until she could notice her. When the time came, when she finally noticed him, they were attracted to each other. That is against the law, women and men should not notice each other. Now, Equality 7-2521 renames Liberty 5-3000 the Golden One for himself. These two people move to another level, which is speaking to each other. Equality 7-2521 made the comment to Liberty 5-3000, saying that she beautiful. He broke 2 rules. One is thinking about women and the other is talking to them. After that, he starts wondering about the lost words of the Evil One and words of the Unmentionable Times.
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"It was that learning was too easy. That is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them" (Rand 21).Reaction:
So, the setting of this novella is a world where the main government, or the World Council goal is make everyone the same. People living in this world are supposed to be different. That's why one person is called an individual. If you stand out, you will be discriminated. In the novel, even though the point of view is first person, there is no "I" or "Me". For example, "We, Equality 7-2521...". It is like "I" and "Me" is not in people's vocabulary. That is how much the government is against individualism. So far, the narrator didn't state the cause of individualism hatred, but I bet the cause was something big that happened. Everyone is supposed to be their own individual and that is what makes the world diverse.
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