His people have candles, but not electricity. The technology of his isolated community is very primitive in comparison to an earlier lost civilization (ours). He hopes he will be selected to be a scholar, but the authorities appoint him to be a street sweeper.
He records that he dares to choose, in the secrecy of his own mind, work he hopes to do when leaving the Home of the Students. Rand’s ANTHEM is presented as a journal kept by her protagonist whose name is Equality 7-2521. Ayn Rand’s novella ANTHEM, published in 1938 and revised in a 1946 edition, is set in a fictitious collectivist community, one smaller and simpler than Kira’s historical setting in WE THE LIVING.
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