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Rules And Controls In The Book Anthem

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Justice Cook 803w indian creek Trafalgar 46181 9th Grade In Anthem, the City has numerous rules and controls. Why do these exist? What is their purpose? Do you think the society that Equality envisions creating at the end of the story would include any of these rules and controls? Explain why or why not. The rules in Anthem, definitely are very distant compared to our Society in a fairly major way. Our Society particularly is running on our own independence, but In Anthem; Their rules definitely are more about everyone having the same treatment, and everyone getting the same stuff everyday in a big way. The purpose of their rules mostly are really extreme, so our Society for the most part is running on our own independence, but In Anthem; Their rules for the most part are much more about everyone having the same treatment, and everyone getting the same stuff everyday in a subtle way. The idea behind the Anthem’s rules and laws are, if everyone gets the same treatment, people will not worry, not have conflict, or essentially get in trouble in major ways. But at the same time the purpose of the laws mostly, are essentially make people; kind of more stupid;(technically), The laws …show more content…

The Letter “I” for the most part is not mentioned in the book at all in a for all intents and purposes major way. The old society, specifically, for all intents and purposes rid of words so they could not for the most part think for themselves, fairly further showing how the Letter “I” basically is not mentioned in the book at all. The words are; I, Ego, And anything to literally do with Independence, so equality, mostly wants to, for all intents and purposes have an independent society, He will probably mostly think of a way to generally make everyone different, which specifically is quite

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