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- A young man lives in a place where the word "I" does not
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- have meaning. It is a society where there are no
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- individuals. It is, however, a place where you strive to
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- serve your brothers. Equality 7-2521 was taught from birth
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- that the individual is not important. He is in a crazed
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- society where the only form of government is collectivism.
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- Equality, at age 21, has absolutely no freedom. He is a
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- a strong, tall young man who stands about six feet. However,
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- in this society, anyone who is six feet tall was considered
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- to be evil. His dream of going to the House of Scholars
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- is lost and he is sent to the Hose of Street Sweepers
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- instead. Here the rules are very strict. He is not allowed
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- to laugh or sing for any reason. These are a couple of
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- hardships that Equality has to face so far in this mixed up
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- society. His troubles get greater and greater until finally
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- he does something about it.
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- All through his life, Equality thinks he is not capable
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- of accomplishing anything. Through time though, he discovers
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- that he is capable of doing many things by himself and more
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- importantly that he is an individual. When he is in the
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- tunnel, he discovers a light. This provides him with the
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- confidence that he is able to do things. Other experiences,
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- such as falling in love with Liberty and seeing his
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- reflection in the pond also help him to believe in himself as
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- a strong individual.
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- Equality later realizes that he has commited sins as he
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- was growing up. He thinks by showing his invention to the
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- House of Scholars that he would be forgiven for his
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- wrongdoings. He hopes to show his invention to society and
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- find a way into the House of the Scholars. He also wants to
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- prove that being tall does not make you an evil individual.
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- He feels that he has sinned because he was sent to the Palace
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- of Corrective Detention when he did not reveal where he has
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- been. He wishes to be forgiven for being sent there. Even
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- though entering the tunnel is against the law, he feels that
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- he is going to discover things that would improve the society
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- that he is living in.
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- Equality tries to get the House of Scholars to accept
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- him for the last time. He finds out when and where they are
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- going to meet and devises a plan. He decides to escape from
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- the Palace of Corrective Detention and go to where the
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- meeting is being held.
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- He arrives at the Council of Scholars and look at him in
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- astonishment. The members are afraid at first because they
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- do not know exactly what Equality is presenting to them.
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- After they realize what it is that Equality is showing them,
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- they are very insulted that a mere street sweeper was
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- belittling their intelligence as Council members.
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- Upon hearing that his idea is rejected, he leaps out the
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- window and runs to the Uncharted Forest where no man
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- survives. He finds out that Liberty has followed him into
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- the forest. They come together and find an abandoned house.
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- They enter it and see things that they have never seen
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- before. They find clothes, 2 beds in one room, and one thing
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- that shocked them the most, a mirror. After looking at the
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- mirror, he now knows for sure that he is an individual. He
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- now understands that the word "I" that he had learned from
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- the manuscripts of the Unmentionable Times has meaning. He
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- knows that he lives for himself and not for others. He
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- realizes that he is his own self and he determines his own
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- fate. He then changes his name to Promethus which is a Greek
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- God who stole the light of the 600's and gave it to man.
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- Promethus had suffered just as Equality had, and Equality
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- admired him very much and chose his name to be his own.
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- Liberty also changed her name. Equality gave her the name
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- Gaea after the Greek Goddess who was the mother of earth and
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- all the God's. Gaea becomes pregnant and they both decide to
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- raise their child as an individual and to never let it
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- experience the hardships they had faced in the crazed society
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- of Collectivism.
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- Equality makes it his duty to rescue the other friends
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- he had left behind. He feels that they deserve the same
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- freedom that he is now experiencing. He plans to "save all
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- men and women whose spirit has not been killed within them
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- and suffer under the yoke of brothers." Equality wants to
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- bring his friends to his fortress and start over a new
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- beginning in which the dreadful word "we" will never again
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- have meaning.