I had not read Anthem until this week and was so surprised that it is another dystopic society. It seems that many of the books I have read lately are about societies in the future that are dysfunctional. Rand wrote this book back in 1937, but I am intrigued how it incorporates socialist ideas and was not originally allowed to be published in the United States.
Anthem is a novella about a guy, who does not have a regular name, but goes by the name Equality 7-2521. Family life does not exist in this futuristic society. People are raised and put to work and supposedly everyone does things for the benefits of the entire society and not for oneself. Well, Equality 7-2521 does not seem to fit in. He decides to try and challenge this, but quietly. You have to read this novella to find out what he does.
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