Who am I, really? We learned about who the characters really were in the novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand. We also read and compared the story of “Prometheus” from Greek mythology and the “Emancipation Proclamation” by Abraham Lincoln. The way I’m concerned about is who were these characters real. What made them who they are in their stories. By seeing how they found out who they were I can use their methods to find out who I really am. First, Equality from Anthem realized he was different from everybody else because he was afraid to go against the rules. He also was not afraid to ask questions, even though he was not supposed to. he knew he was meant for better things than cleaning streets for the rest of his life he really wanted to be a scholar. Although his dream was to be a scholar and discover new technology his brothers gave the job of being a street sweeper. One day while he was working he discovered an old unmentionable time tunnel. There he discovers electricity then and there he decided to put this to good use and make it useful around their towns. He discovered that he was meant to free his people from imprisonment, he was like Moses but his people. Although I have not freed anybody from imprisonment or anything like that, but I have guided people toward…show more content… When he first took office, he was immediately under pressure of his administration and abolitionist to make an emancipation proclamation this only added to the fact that Lincoln personally abhorred slavery. We know that he wrote a document called the Emancipation Proclamation, but what is it and what does it do. In the emancipation proclamation, Lincoln declared that all slaves residing in rebellious states be freed. By doing so he changed the status of 3 million African Americans living as slaves in the confederate
