Anthem Dialectical Journal by Daven Wagner https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9 en-us 2017-12-18 22:05:43 UTC 2026-02-04 20:09:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Babyhead.png " 'We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen' " (Rand 21). 214091 https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217114211 2017-12-18 22:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217114211 I think that I can relate to this quote. This connects to my life because I have a cousin who lives in Washington. She treats me a lot like Equality's brothers treat him. She believes that she is superior to me and that she is the boss of me. This quote is important to the novel because it establishes how Equality's brothers are superior and the ruler or boss of every citizen. But I wonder why Equality's brothers are "more important" than him and all the other citizens. I think the answer might be that the society lives in a time where there is no president or single ruler like in the Unmentionable Times and therefore, the society which Equality lives in is one where there are several rulers who are the "superiors" of Equality and all of the other citizens. 214091 https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217114954 2017-12-18 22:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217114954 " I am. I think. I will" (Rand 94). 214091 https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217382219 2017-12-19 21:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217382219 I can really to this quote a lot. In this quote, Equality discovers that he is his own individual. I can relate to this because I am Mormon. Mormons believe in a thing called agency. Agency is what god gave all men on earth. It is the ability to make your own decisions whether they are bad ones or good ones. In this quote, Equality learned that he is his own individual and that his own decisions are not to be decided for him by others. In this part of the book, I wonder what the author was thinking when he wrote the letter "I" for the first time in the book. I would imagine he was relieved to not have had to write another "we". This quote made me think about how happy Equality and Liberty were to finally realize after many years what word really expressed individualism. 214091 https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217382587 2017-12-19 21:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/214091/mljn7gzko9i9/wish/217382587