“A monster, the root of all the evils on earth” (Anthem 96). I can connect this quote from Anthem with another quote, “Money is the root of all evil”. In Anthem, the “root of all evil” is the word “We”, and how individualism is important, and it should never be put first in a person’s soul. In the other quote, it talks about how money bring upon evil and greed, and how it brings out the worst in people. Mainly because people would do anything to get money. “I love you” (Anthem 98). I can connect this quote to another part from the book in Chapter four. “Our dearest one” (Anthem 56). I can relate these two quotes together, because they are both telling each other they “love” each other, even though the thought of this was forbidden. In the Chapter four quote, it was worded in a plural for or “Our”, but in the Chapter twelve quote, it was worded personally with “I”. “Solidarity 9-6347 who calls for help in the night” (Anthem 101).
I can connect this quote to another book I have read before, where a boy named Sam would scream help at night, and when someone would come to see how he was, he would be completely fine, but unusually happy. It turned out Sam was seeing ghosts, and when someone came to check on him, he would get possessed, and this symbolized the thought of “Demonic Possession”. Solidarity on the other hand probably isn’t possessed, but might be seeing beyond all the lies the town had fed him, and he probably does not know how to “embrace” it all, and react to all of the lies he has been fed. “Stood a house such as we had never seen” (Anthem 89). A very similar thing had happened in a book called The Giver. In The Giver, the protagonist had fled from his utopian “world”, and town just like how Equality (Prometheus) fled from his city into the unknown. After wandering for a while, both characters had found a little hut, or house sitting in the middle of nowhere.
