The Council Of Vocations Revealed In Anthem, By Ayn Rand

In Anthem by Ayn Rand the Council of Vocations assigns Equality 7-2521 to be a Street Sweeper even though he wanted to be in the Council of Scholars. They made Equality a Street Sweeper mainly because of how smart he was and the fact he was always asking questions. The teachers new that if he had been put in the House of the Scholars he would ask to many questions and might find out information he wasn’t supposed to know.
Equality didn’t have the best childhood mainly because of how strict the communist society was. Equality grew up a smart kid and the society said it was a sin to have a quicker mind than everyone else and because of him being smarter and learn stuff easier and quicker he would be punished and he had to try to forget what he had learned and had to not learn at

And we who were fifteen and all the teachers came into the great hall. And the council of vocations sat on a high dais, and they had but two words to speak to each of the students. They called the students names, and when the students stepped before them one after another, the council said: “carpenter” or “doctor” or “cook” or “leader”.” Then each student raised their right arm and said: “the will of our brothers be done.”(Rand 25)The council of vocations in an attempt to keep Equality away from the knowledge they didn’t want him to have made him a Street Sweeper, this at first made Equality mad, because it was a waste of his good mind. He was put in a group with a half mind boy and another not so smart boy. Then one day while cleaning he found a tunnel. Equality then started collecting supplies and did experiments and discovered electricity. Equality met a girl named liberty that gave him hope and inspired him to keep doing and she named him the Unconquered. Equality invented the light bulb and took it to the Council of the Scholars but they didn’t except it, because he worked on it alone and broke many