Equality 7-2521 Dialectical Journal

In this book the council, which is another way of saying the government, has a law known as the “we” law. This law states that no human can refer to themselves as one person. Each and every person must call themselfs “we” and considering the circumstances, “our” as if they are multiple people. The council feels as if they must have this rule because if these humans were to go around talking as if they are one person, it would be unequal. Which is a huge law, they must all be equal, no exceptions. One character acknowledges, “We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.” (Rand 19). This quote is a strong quote

One day, Equality 7-2521 who was filled with joy, sang during dinner and was told off by a Council Member. He tells the Council Member the reason that he sings is because he is happy. The Council Member then retaliates that the reason he should be happy is because he lives with his fellow brothers. After that occurrence, while in his tunnel, Equality 7-2521 meditates on the meaning of happiness and realizes that it is forbidden to be unhappy and that his brothers are unhappy because they are afraid. What makes Equality 7-2521 happy is when he is in his tunnel performing experiments and pursuing his study of light, but in order to do so, he must sneak away because to his and everyone else’s knowledge, the society in which they live in reject an individual’s freedom to pursue individual happiness because true happiness should come from living beside/with your fellow brothers. When one is only able to achieve happiness through a group of people in a society, it is to be expected that its citizens will feel as if life is meaningless and painful. From what Equality 7-2521 has witnessed, it is evident that the flame of independence inside him is growing.

Kayla- The morning of April 19, 1775 , Britain’s General Gage would send out squadrons of British soldiers stationed in Boston .

1. I would put myself in the place of the man on the horse he looks like he could be the leader, so the leader.

“…it was us, all of us, who were failing, and the hallmark of our failure was the way we are with our heads down, hungrily, quickly, because there was nothing else to do at the table” (102).

zany He threw a finger to the dead end of the corridor, where twenty-someting Jason Abbernathy proceeded with a smile, sliding a homburg over his gelled hair and urbanely clicked his door shut.

The underworld seemed to be getting colder and I couldn’t tell if it was because I’d fled the room that was lit or because Hades’s heart had been nearly ripped out. I was weeping pretty hard by now, feeling awfully betrayed and as lonely as my injurer. I felt my way around in the darkness for a while, thankful to the slight bluish glow that seemed to at least partially lighten ones way down in the underworld.

There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.’” (Chapter 1 Paragraph 8)

Huck and Tom decided that they needed to plan out, on how to save Jim. Tom talks about how rescuing Jim is too easy, since his uncle trusts everyone on his farm. He tells Huck that there is more honor in having more difficulties, so he wants to add them himself. Huck is surprised to hear this and questions Tom. Tom then talks about what else they will need on their escape. He wants to do everything the harder way. After talking, Tom decides that Jim should cut off his leg to escape, because that how people in the book did it. Huck refuses to listen to his ideas. Tom also wants to give Jim a shirt, and tell him to make a pencil, and write on a journal on the fabric. He advises that jim used his own blood as ink. Huck still refuses to let Jim do any of what he is saying. The two

This quote represents the individuality in the book. This was the first time Equality has experienced freedom. It is the first time he refers to himself as “I” instead of “We”. At the beginning of the book it was discussed “the unspeakable word” which it was now discovered it is “I”. This quote goes against everything the council and his “ brothers” believe in and everything he used to believe.

“…I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the

Most of the stories, especially the tenth story of the fifth day, have misogynistic statements. In this story, an old woman tells a married woman that “women exist for no other purpose than to...bear children” (472). This contributes to the limitation of female ambition and the worth with which women see themselves.

From the novella stated from being the first person point of view, it emphasises the progression of the plot to enhance the idea of a society without technological advances. Having the narrator be the character to take part throughout all the chapters, it gives the audience much more details of his surroundings and experiences. As the narrator being Equality 7-2521, he uses plural instead of singular pronouns in which it helps distribute the ideology of a world minus scientific development in the aspect of a society with harsh restrictions favoring collectivism moreover individualism. Looking in the narrator’s perspective, he never understood or knew that the word “I” existed, he ultimately spoke with the use of “we” to refer to himself until

Voices talking in the background unclear like static, but they each had their own voices, as if they were birds chirping away at dawn. Then a louder clear voice honking away in a sea of traffic, I hear my name. Or do I? Am I just imagining people are talking about me? Not because I’m arrogant because I think I’m cool, no I hear this because of low self esteem. It is told we must act a certain way, conform to this ideal of what society should be, how we should act. The reality is so more complex when each individual has their own take on life, identity. You and me or him and her we have

person has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there no law for it” (Hawthorne 36).