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Cynthia Frazier
The value and responsibility of the individual is manifest theme. In the story The Ones Who Walk away From Omelas the conflict brings out the value and responsibility of the individuals in the town. The conflict of omelas is either to stay or leave, Omelas was like paradise, was full of happy people neither stress nor pain. Their choices were to stay and be happy, but some was happy for a little period of time. There was a child boy or girl that sat in a basement in a beautiful building who had to suffer. The child was only about 6 or 7 with little water and food to eat. The child represented the people in Omelas Stress and pain. That one child represents all that stress, they figured if they let the child out the world will be like ours as the author says in the passage. Which leave the people with their choices if they should stay or go? Man vs. the world is like one child vs. everyone’s happiness. Which leaves everyone with the question, would you leave are do something about that one child suffering for everyone else?
Ausha Meggett
The value and responsibility of the individual was the theme for the short story " The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas". In this short story there was a child locked away in a basement and treated poorly. He was kept in a small room, with dirt floors,no windows, and absolutely no one was permitted to talk to the child. The child was kept in inhumane conditions they treated him without care and he was in a cruel enviorment. Citizens felt bad after visiting the child they would go home and cry or they would leave the city because they felt the child deserved better. Since he was kept in inhumane conditions this demonstrated the value of the childs life not being as worthy as the others.
Lynica McClellan
worth it.
Period 3
Desiree Anderson
The theme of the value and responsibility of the individual is supported by the conflict in the story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The boy being locked away for the joy and happiness of others is the main conflict. The townspeople could have decided to have a meeting and deal with their guilt in a different way, but they did not. Without the boy they wouldn’t have happiness so he represents the value of the individual. Individually they could have voted to decide to do something other than lock him away.
Darah Thornton
or worse?
Natasha Todd
As humans, our first instinct is to protect ourselves. The characters in The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas help support the theme by defining the major points that make up people and society as a whole. There are many ways people see themselves. They may see themselves as a the one who likes to stay ahead, or the one who puts other first, maybe even a person who does a little of both and the list goes on and on. The major points can differ from person to person, but it all comes down to a person either being a collective thinker or an individualist thinker. The characters involved in this story (the citizens - stay, the citizens - leave, the Wretched one, narrator, and us as a people) have very little description to their backgrounds and not much is known about them. However, with the way the story is told, the sense of their outlooks on people, life, and society can be noticed.
The setting supports the theme of the value and responsibility of the individual the part about the basement that’s placed under the town of omelas. In this quote “The door is always locked and nobody ever comes, except that sometimes the child has no understanding of time….basically the town blames the child for all their sins and unhappiness. All the citizens rely on the child for them not being happy such as if they all help each other out then would be willing to not let the child suffer anymore. Like it seems as though the citizens have more control or power than the boy. Who is considered powerless and wanting to take a chance to build on from each other instead of putting the blame on one innocent boy.
Lindsay Smedley
others around.
In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, a little boy held that responsibility And carried all the burden as if he was a storage place “They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendship, health of their children…..etc, depend on this one Childs abominable misery.
In this quote the little boy had the entire burden to keep the town happy. It was his responsibility to stay in solitary confinement. He had a strong value in the town that only benefits others. Would he be proud if he knew?

While doing their respective jobs Equality and Liberty meet again. Equality finally tells Liberty his nickname for her "the Golden One" and Liberty shares that she too has given Equality a nickname "the Unconqured". Equality and Liberty obviously begin to have feelings for each other as Equality calls her dearest one and Liberty seems to want to follow, listen, and look up to Equality.
Chapter 5
ChapterEquality has re-discovered electricity in his tunnel. He plans to show his discovery to the world. by showing it to the world council of scholars. He also wonders what he looks like.
Chapter 6
Equality returns late and has been discovered that he has been sneaking out. When questioned by the council of home, equality refused to answer. and was sent to the palace of corrective detention & was lashed, but later escapes & retreats to the tunnel.
Chapter 7
Equality presents his boxlight to the world council of scholars. At 1st present thet are scared of the box but equality calms them. They questioned him on the box and deemed since it was made alone by himself it was useless. And wanted it to be destoryed, equality jumped out a window to escape and retreated to the forbidden forest.
Chapter 8
Equality has awoken in his day in the forest. Learning the joy of freedom. Such as killing a bird and cooking it. Also equality finally sees his reflections for the first time ever and has learned how different he looked from everyone else.
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

While Equality is living in the Uncharted Forest he is forced to find a clean and natural source of water and food and he notices his reflection while drinking from this lake. He sees that he is a beautiful person, he notices all the ways he differs from his "brothers" but all the good differences.
Chapter 9 - As Equality was walking through the uncharted forest he hears footsteps who belongs to no other than the Golden One. When she heard of his escape she decided to literally follow in his footsteps in hopes that she would find him. Once they're together in the forest they confess their love for each other and criticize the flaws of their society. - AllyJ
Chapter 1010- In the forest they come across a house made by umentionable times. Equality thought is was a house built for 12 people but had 2 beds. So they decided to live in the house.
Chapter 11-Lynica McClellan
Equality 7-2521 is saying the word "I," he is becoming into his own person now.He is struggling with this word because it was never allowed in his vocabulary and he is feeling empowered by his strenght. He knows that he doesnt owe any debts to his "brothers."

In chapter five Equality decides that he is going to show the World Council his discoveryof electricity. Equality feels like its to greta to be kept a secret. When he is in the tunnel and its dark he realizes that he needs to share her secret. Equality is conflicting w/his discovery because a part of him wants to keep it a secret but ther other wants to share it and become a Scholar.
Chapter 6 - Equality was caught sneaking in to the Home of Street Sweepers at a much later time than whats normal. The council took him to the Palace of Corrective Detention where he was whipped for not telling the council of his whereabouts. They kept him in there for 30 days and he soon escaped to his secret tunnel where he decided it would be best to show the Home of Scholars his light box. -AllyJ
Chapter 7- In chapter 7 Eqaulity escapes the jail where he had been for 30 days.He then took his box to the scholars. But they thought it was a bad idea so he ran into the Uncharted Forest.
Chapter 8-Lynica McClellan
While Equality is living in the Uncharted Forest he is forced to find a clean and natural source of water and food and he notices his reflection while drinking from this lake. He sees that he is a beautiful person, he notices all the ways he differs from his "brothers" but all the good differences.

Chapter 7
Chapter 8-Lynica McClellan
good differences.
Chapter 9 - As Equality was walking through the uncharted forest he hears footsteps who belongs to no other than the Golden One. When she heard of his escape she decided to literally follow in his footsteps in hopes that she would find him. Once they're together in the forest they confess their love for each other and criticize the flaws of their society. - AllyJ
Chapter 10
The theme of Anthem is original invention/ creation is key to indepedence is developed through the character,Equality7-2521. He's creativity and need to explore lead him to independence because his discovery made him want to sneak away to do his own thing, especially when he runs away from Antheme's society and is forced to findhis own food and way. I believe his risk taking characteristic makes him gain independence. Ayn Rand shows his creativity through his invention of light which also leads to his independence.
A third theme analysis must be submitted on a theme of your choice. You are welcome to analyze the contributions of character, conflict, setting, and/or other elements of the text.
Your choice:
byIdenity Crisis:
The theme in the novel "Ayn Rand" is idenity crisis. The people in anthem believe that they must all be the same and that being singled out is a sin. In the story Eqaulity stated '" We strive to be like all our brothers men, for all men must be a like." In anthem they also are not able to choose a job based on interest the council gives them a job that they want them to have. Another sin is to give men a name that would distinguish them from other men. Eqaulity along with many of his brothers was catergorized as one as a whole instead of one as a person. The result of this is idenity crisis. A persons opinion,feelings,knowledge,style, and personality all makes them a unique individual. Not being able to be yourself and having to be like everyone else when you dont want to you face idenity crisis. - Ausha M.
Tone Analyse
Each member of your group must write one analysis of a single, agreed upon tone. The group should decide on whether or not the tone changes over the course of the novel. If it does not, write about a single tone. If it does, write about the shift between two tones. Make sure to sign your analysis.

Individuality is key to society progressing.
by Von Wiley
to society progressingprogressing.
By, Javon Jones
Individuality is needed to help society progress which is the theme in Antheme and is shown by the character. In the story Equality does things that by himself got completed and could have helped their society progress. “We made it. We created it … Our alone and only”. This quote shows how he still has the mind set of his brothers and he still cares for their society but him working by himself helped it progress. Individuality is the distinctive characteristic, and only Equality during this time was thinking of how to really improve their society to make life easier.
The impotence of the collective group.
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In the book Anthem, Ayn Rand sets a satirical tone by her use of humor and exaggeration. Equality 7-2521 lives in a world where everyone is equal, no one goes against the “upper hand”, and everything is strictly planned out. “When the bell rings we all arise from our beds..the shadow on the sundial marks off a half-hour while we dress and eat our breakfast in the dining hall..then we go to work in the streets of the city, in five hours, when the sun is high we return to the home and eat our midday meal for which one half-hour is allowed..” By Ayn Rand’s use of the characters having to stick to a well planned out schedule, she is ridiculing the way things are in their collectivist world. We as readers know that this would never happen and that she exaggerates the collectivism.
Javon Jones
your self.
Each member of your group must write one analysis of a single, agreed upon tone. The group should decide on whether or not the tone changes over the course of the novel. If it does not, write about a single tone. If it does, write about the shift between two tones. Make sure to sign your analysis.

Tone Analyses
Each member of your group must write one analysis of a single, agreed upon tone. The group should decide on whether or not the tone changes over the course of the novel. If it does not, write about a single tone. If it does, write about the shift between two tones. Make sure to sign your analysis.
Ayn Rand's tone is satirical in her novel "Anthem". An example of this is when
she purposely has no guards watching Equality while he is incarcerated. "It was
easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. The locks are old on the
doors and the are no guards about. There is no reason to have guards, for men
never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were
ordered to be. Irony is being showed here because anytime someone is
incarcerated, they have supervision making sure that they maintain orderly
conduct. Irony is a part of satire, and she uses details to exploit the absence
of something expected to be present, in turn showing her satirical tone.
-CD

Tone Analyses
Each member of your group must write one analysis of a single, agreed upon tone. The group should decide on whether or not the tone changes over the course of the novel. If it does not, write about a single tone. If it does, write about the shift between two tones. Make sure to sign your analysis.
By: Aliyah Brooks
Ayn Rand's tone is satirical because when Equalitys shows off his nwew creation of light the scholars reacts rejective. "How dared you think that your mind held greater wisdom than the minds of your brothers." What this quote means is that Equality is not worthy enough to have individuality and high expectations of himself because in his society he can't be different than others or he would be breaking the law. This supports my point because it uses irony in which gives the opposite reaction of what should have happened.

The tone of Anthem is satirical, one of the reasons I said it is satirical is; There's a lot of ridicule and ironic thing going on in the book. One of the moments that stood out to me was when Ayn Rand started writing about how none of the people in the city had ever seen there self, and couldn't because it was forbidden. She started by say having the main character Equality say " Man never see their own faces and never ask their brothers about it, for it is evil to have concern on their own face or bodies." By Ayn Rand is trying to make the city like there aganist individualty. they want everybody in the city to thank as their self as " WE " instead of " I ", so everybody will always feel equal and the only person with power in the councils.
- Dewill Perkins
shows the light."But terrorlight, "terror struck the the society are afraid of new things and how ideas sometimes. This supports the idea that this is satirical, because its ironic how one person out of many people can make a big change in society.
- Darion Morton

Chapter 9
Chapter 10
her self.
Chapter 11
- After Equalitry reads all the book in his house he learned about the word " I ", and he took what he learned from tho
Tone Analyses
Each member of your group must write one analysis of a single, agreed upon tone. The group should decide on whether or not the tone changes over the course of the novel. If it does not, write about a single tone. If it does, write about the shift between two tones. Make sure to sign your analysis.
the councils.
- Dewill Perkins
The tone of Anthem is satirical, one of the reasons I said it is satirical is because the author is making fun of the human society. One person goes on their own wile the other street sweepers stay and follow the rules. When Equality shows the light."But terror struck the men of the council. They leapt to their feet, they ran from the table, snd they stood pressed against the wall, huddled togather, seeking the warmth of one another's bodies to give them courage". In this example she is showing how some people in the society and how dumb some people are when it comes to discovering new things and never let people express their ideas sometimes.