When does this novel take place - in the past, present, or future? How do you know? -
✔✔This novel takes place in the future because Equality describes a society unlike
anything the world has yet seen: a society in whi
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When does this novel take place - in the past, present, or future? How do you know? -
✔✔This novel takes place in the future because Equality describes a society unlike
anything the world has yet seen: a society in which everyone is equal. It also says so on
the back.
What motto is engraved over the portals of the Palace of the World Council? What
prayer is recited every night? - ✔✔Motto:
"We are one in all and all in one.
There are no men but only the great WE,
One, indivisible, and forever."
Prayer:
"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives.
We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen."
Describe Equality's writing. What is the format of his writing? - ✔✔Equality refers to
himself as "we" (Gollum, anyone?). In his writing, he continually says that what he is
doing is a transgression and saying there is an evil within him.
Describe Equality's physical appearance. - ✔✔Equality wears an iron bracelet on his left
wrist with his name, Equality 7-2521, on it. He is 21 years old and 6 feet tall, which is
very unusual. His teachers said there was evil inside of him because of his abnormal
height.
What is Equality's curse? - ✔✔He is not like everyone else.
Compare the Home of the Infants, the Home of the Students, and the Home of the
Street Sweepers. - ✔✔The Home of the Infants is where citizens stay from the time they
are born until they are five. The sleeping halls were white, clean, and empty besides for
100 beds.
Citizens spend 10 years learning at the Home of the Students. The sleeping halls were
the same.
The Home of the Street Sweepers is a gray house on a narrow street. The sleeping
halls are the same.
Why was Equality pleased with his Life Mandate? - ✔✔By working as a Street Sweeper,
he could make up for the times when he wished to be a Scholar and committed the
Transgression of Preference.
Describe a typical day in Equality's life for the next four years. - ✔✔He gets up when a
bell rings and then has a half-hour to eat and dress. Then he goes to work in the city
with his brooms and rakes. Five hours later he has a half-hour break for lunch. Five
hours after that he has an hour for dinner. Then the bell rings and he walks in a straight
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