Ayn Rand's Alas, Babylon

Have you ever wondered why it can be so hard to tell the truth, or why it seems better to tell a lie? In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Rob Marshall’s Chicago, characters lie because they feel that it is easier. However, lying leads to a downward- spiral. The society we live in can either lead us to a complicated relationship with the truth or easy going. The problem with constantly telling lies is that it starts off with one then leads to another until everything you say is a lie. People know it is easier to tell lies than face the truth because they are either doing it for money, or protection for themselves, people they love, or relationships. Yes, telling lies can help but imagine the damage you’re building up on the way. Nobody likes liars and liars can be found anywhere, even families lie to each other. Relationships are just like thin pieces of paper that make small tears to it every time a lie is told. The paper can be put back together but it will never be the same or be seen the same.

In this essay, I am going to compare and constrast the two stories. One is "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet and the other is "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. In "By the Waters of Babylon", the author basically compares and the house of the gods and the Dead Place. In "Anthem", the characters in the story finds an underground place where no one should go.

“ Because it keeps you locked in the jail of your own mind.” This quote interprets that lying keeps people from the lie you could have told one person but not the other. Both the author and Blanton have a good point where people might have a need to lie and know the consequences, however they still commit them. “... and you manipulate information to control the outcome.” Many liars use this method, and withhold information to oppose the fallout. Some who think it sometimes it’s justified say “I didn’t tell a whole lie”, but don’t see how it’s not the whole truth either. Expectations are set, and state that the person being lied to is the one hurt in the end, but many don’t know that the pejurer themselves are also badly affected or even

Everyone is a liar. From little white lies to fibs completely blown out of proportion, we all lie. Sometimes lying seems necessary for we lie to help someone or to spare hurt feelings, so we convince ourselves that our actions are justified and to some unknown point they are. The difference between a liar and someone who just tries to help is whether they will admit to their wrongdoings and try to repent for their actions. While people who just try to help eventually get applauded for their actions, liars get scorned. In the novel, Nothing But the Truth by Avi, the protagonist, a ninth grader by the name of Philip Malloy, succumbs to his own lie and lets his inner selfish motives become more important than the truth, ruining the reputation of someone who just tried to help.

A. Authors work: Ayn Rand has written many novels, including The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Night of January 16th, The Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, and her first novel We the Living, Which was written in 1934 and was published in 1936.

“Anthem” by Ayn Rand, is a story about the meaning behind self development of a person’s own thoughts. Ayn Rand was born February 2, 1905 in Saint petersburg, Russia. She is a novelist,philosopher, and screenwriter.

Today in our modern great nation, we have the freedom of speech, the right to your own life, and the opportunity to change the way we live. At least to some extent. In the other parts of the world, people do not always have the freedoms we have. In the story of anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 lives in a country where freedom does not exist. But rather controlled by a higher power. Equality 7-2521, lives in a communist country.

Lying is a virtue that’s known for being bad, as something that can’t have any good come from it. But when it’s the only way for you or cherished ones to be safe and alive, lying becomes a trait that’s not only useful, but life saving. Such as covering for an LGBT person in an unaccepting and bigoted home. Taken to the extremes, this form of covering could also be hiding Jewish families in your own home during WWII in Germany. It’s this ability to deceive and disobey that could mean life or death of an innocent

This story, Among the hidden, is relevant to today's society because it has rules just like today. Although it's not the same rules throughout, it still has some. Other than that this story is not relevant. Among the Hidden compares to the story NightJohn by the “imprisoned” feeling. Luke and all other third children feel locked away, Just like all the slaves felt in NightJohn. Some ways Sarny and Luke are alike is that they both are around the age 12. They both also want to be free from this “prison” they are in. Both sarny and luke are able to deal with all the conflicts that happened. Luke was able to deal with Jen’s death. Just like Sarny was able to deal with Mammy and John getting punished for what she had

Children of War this book goes through a war and shows what it was like for many people who were in Iraq and could not get out or wasn't able too. It tells and shows what the people and children had went through when they were stuck in Iraq while the war was going on. It's kind of a confusing book to read and follow along the entire time because there's not really any kind of a chapter it simply just goes through and three or four pages will be about what one family went through and then move onto another family. But that is one way that this book is unique in my opinion it takes a bunch of people's lives that went through the same war and tells and gives you a good idea what each family went through, and just about every single family had

The Jungle tells of how a married couple, Jurgis and Ona, moved on from terrible struggles such as horrible work conditions, poverty, and the lack of food in the corrupt city of Chicago. Jurgis and Ona moved to Chicago because they were poor in Lithuania and Ona’s brother, Jonas, tells the couple about how he has a friend in the U.S. who struck rich. Jurgis and Ona take their chances and move to the United States for a better life.

While reading Alas, Babylon, the middle section of page 85 stood out to me greatly, perhaps more than any other passage I’d encountered in the book up to that point. In that section, Randy and Helen have a conversation about how Ben Franklin and Peyton, Helen and Mark’s children, have been conditioned in such a way that they are able to handle receiving the news of imminent nuclear war in a cool, even-tempered manner. I felt an immediate connection with the two children, because I’ve been exposed to similar circumstances from the time I was very young. Having been born in July of 2001, barely two months before the attacks of September 11, I can’t recall a single period in my life during which the U.S. wasn’t involved in conflict of any sort.

Even though this children’s book only contains minimal words, it fantastically illustrates a little boy named Max, who gets into trouble and his mother sends him to bed, calling him a ‘wild thing.’ That night, Max’s room starts becoming a forest and in an ocean, a boat floats past and Max hops in. The boat takes Max far away to where the wild things are! Max quickly becomes the king of the monsters and sends them to bed, where he now starts to realise how lonely he is and decides to sail back home to where he knows he is loved. From the brilliant text to the easy-to-read accompanying illustrations, ‘Where the wild things are’ is simply an awesome classic children’s book. I appreciate the message the author conveys, which is a message of unconditional

First, he states that it is okay to lie so you can save yourself from embarrassment.(516) Secondly he claims that consistently telling the truth has it’s advantage in trust.(516) To this he says there are exceptions to this rule. Namely that if withholding information from someone results in saving them from evil occurring to them.(516) Even with these exceptions, he says that we have to recognize that the lie may be breaking down trust so we can truly weight the cost and the benefit of both.(516)

Allah's Messenger Peace be upon Him has said : (Be truthful. For truthfulness leads to piety and piety leads to Paradise. If a man holds to truth and persist in it, he will be recorded with ALLAH as a truthful man. Beware of lying. For lying leads to wickedness and wickedness