Ayn Rand's The Yellow Diamond

She was the only one who understood. She listened without judgement, held her when she cried, and was there for her when she was at her loneliest. It was hard without her being there. She felt as if she had no one to talk to. Steven was too young, Garnet was not the talking type, and Pearl? Well, they just didn't get along. Actually never got along. She was the reject gem; the product of a Homeworld experiment that none of the "real" gems wanted to speak of. It was almost sacrilegious.

Although the town commonly recognizes Pearl for her misbehavior, everyone also knows Pearl for her pure beauty and innocence. They do not define her for her mother’s mistake. Pearl, “a lovely and immortal flower,”(61) seems to radiate her beauty everywhere she goes. In nature, a rose symbolizes immortal love and passion. Coincidentally, Pearl is a product of her mother’s passion, and Hester has an immortal love for her even though Pearl symbolizes a mistake in her life.

From her initial introduction to the reader as the “yonder babe, (…) of some three or four months old”, Pearl represents the beauty of the truth (54). As she struggles to find answers about her mother’s scarlet A while simultaneously growing up, Pearl identifies as an innocent character, despite her creation. It is frequently noted that she looks similar to the scarlet letter that her mother so reluctantly bears, with her “bright complexion [and] eyes possessing intensity both of depth and glow, and hair already of a deep, glossy brown” (76). Her similar appearance to the scarlet letter furthers her permanent connection to the letter. Additionally, it highlights the notion that her mother will likely never be able to look at her without reminiscing upon her sin. As Pearl develops, her fire-like actions and dark appearance further molds her into the fleshly expression of Hester’s adultery. Furthermore, Hawthorne ensures to characterize Pearl throughout the novel as a friend to the sunlight, a friend to the truth. As she begins to pick determine that Dimmesdale is her father, the sunlight welcomes her. This is because she is the only innocent character who is not afraid to step into the sun’s rays. Pearl recognizes the light’s love for her and audibly notes, “the

Anthem, the futuristic novel pinned by Ayn Rand in 1937 gives light to a very scary place and time. This writing expressed her views and beliefs that the United States would be repeating a dark place of its history. Setting the preface where slavery and dictatorship was once more the social norm. As with most forward thinkers their thoughts and ideas are concerned extreme and not given the validity they deserve until future generation look back into the past. History and human behavior always repeats itself.

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.

Ayn Rand’s Anthem challenges the prevailing wisdom that selflessness and sacrifice are morally superior to selfishness and self-interest. In the 1937 novel, Rand depicts a future in which individual identity is erased and all action is collective in nature. The word ‘I’ has been eradicated and all people use the plural ‘We’ to refer to themselves, as it is the concept of self that a society based on selflessness must destroy. In Anthem, the banishment of individualism leads to severe dystopian consequences that are explored through their impact on the protagonist, Equality 7-2521, on the end of innovation in society, and as the basis for the collapse of society itself into a totalitarian dictatorship.

The future as we imagine it, is to be filled with hi-tech gadgets and gear. Yet we consistently forget about the past and how the past always catches up, where light is gone and equality is a must were no sight of uniqueness is allowed. If that were the case we wouldn’t not be human. “Anthem” by Ayn Rand explains this world where everyone is the same and everyone is told exactly what to do. Equality 7-2521 is the main character of this story and tries to fix this problem. In this story, there is a dystopian protagonist, and a dystopian protagonist is a character that feels trapped and is struggling to escape his/her society. Equality, the dystopian protagonist in “Anthem”, questions the society he lives in by figuring out that being

The purpose of this passage serves to express the changes in Pearl such as her potential lost of ignorance, while also portraying her significance in the story as a representation of nature. A comparison between Pearl and the word "wilt" is made several times throughout the passage. This possible representation of Pearl as a flower has many different implication. One of which being a reflection of her mother. While Dimmesdale has gained Hester's appreciation, Pearl has not given her consent. That is to say, the wilting of the flower is associated with the death of her youth and her transcendence into a more mature women capaible of acceptering Dimmesdale as her father. Furthermore, the wilting of Pearl can also represent her knowledge on the situation, as nature is indifferent, the death of the flower suggest that Pearl is no longer a presentation of nature but her own self being. Pearl is now able to understand the complexity of the issue and forgives Dimmesdale through a

At the first of Pearl’s role in the story, it appears as though someone so grounded in her beliefs, spiritual and mental, would never be dynamic in

The Unmentionable Times turned into the society we see in Anthem through giving up freedom for the sake of equality. A high school teacher mailed Rand her students’ questions about the novella,

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

Second, Pearl is a symbol of Hester’s salvation and reason to keep living. Hester names her baby Pearl because she has paid a great price for her. In chapter eight, Hester has to fight to keep Pearl. When they go to the governor’s mansion, he threatens to take Pearl away from Hester. Pearl tells the men at the governor’s mansion that she was picked in the garden by the prison door. They are worried about her well being with Hester and want to remove her from mother. Hester fights to keep Pearl. ‘“God gave her into my keeping,” repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek. “I will not give her up!”—And here, by sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes” (Hawthorne 124). Pearl is a symbol of Hester’s sin and now Hester has to raise Pearl and teach her what she did wrong. Dimmesdale steps in and tries to back up Hester and tells the governor that Pearl would guide Hester and keep her from making mistakes that she made in the past. God has given Pearl to Hester as a blessing and a reminder of her sin. The mother and daughter have already built a strong bond and Pearl is keeping Hester alive. After all of this, Hester is allowed to take Pearl home with her, but she must follow guidelines. Hester was asked to join the Black Man in the

for whom Pearl's father was but she never spoke a word. To make the whole situation better

Garnet couldn't shake the feeling that this was all on her, she felt her to halves fighting, her inner turmoil was threatening to rip her apart. Ruby wanted to smack some sense into Pearl and raise some hell, while Sapphire just wanted to leave and take a moment alone to think about how to handle, the situation.

Pearl was ostracized by the Puritan society and viewed negatively because she was seen as a product of sin (adultery). She was shunned by other children her age who tended to ignore her and threw mud at her. However, Pearl appears to be an insightful child. Pearl seemed to play a role in the events to the scaffold scene as she approaches Dimmesdale and allows him to piece to reality that he is her father. The third scaffold scene showed how Pearl who lived a life in isolation was capable of freeing herself from such life to a life of happiness when Dimmesdale revealed the