What is the scariest book you've ever read? Why did it scare you? Were there ghosts, monsters, or aliens? Anthem is tremendously scary with the potential monster of the future if we do not protect our current freedoms. The furture in Anthem predicts a reverse back to a time of dark ages mixed with extreme socialism. One person, Equality 7-2521, realizes that there is something more to life than what he has. He dares to want and to desire more than he has and something different than his circumstances. He desires rights, friendship, and love. He must search for the way to make change with the courage to do it. This book makes me question what small steps would take a society like ours to a future like the one painted in the book. Equality 7-2521 knows that these steps were not realized and the knowledge slipped away from people in the process. We must be careful with our freedoms not to give them over too easily. This book is powerful and a must read!
Other books that follow in this line of thinking include The Giver by Lois Lowery, and Utopia by Sir Thomas More. The level of The Giver is probably jr. high, while Utopia is more later high school or possibly college. Parents and teachers should encourage students to read these books as they study government.
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From blonde to brown to grey, life is a learning process. May I never stop learning or sharing what I've learned.
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