Equality 7-2521 Analysis

“IT IS A SIN TO WRITE THIS.” This is the first thing Equality 7-2521 said. Equality 7-2521 says that anything that has to do with being independant and thinking on your own, is a sin. A sin is anything against the Council's rules, and the Council s a bunch of people who are the “government” of this utopian society that Equality 7-2521 lives in. Equality 7-2521 is a very tall boy, and being tall, or anything is a sin, because you are different from your brothers. “”We are six feet tall, and that is a burden…” Equality 7-2521 says this on page 18. This makes him alone from anyone, which in return, makes him think alone. When Equality 7-2521 thinks alone, it makes him think of things that shouldn't be thought of in his society.
In the beginning, Equality 7-2521 believes that everything that someone cannot see, or cannot hear, is a sin. At the end of the book, Equality 7-2521 knows that being tall is not a sin, being smart is not a sin, and that thinking for yourself is not a sin. In the end, Equality 7-2521 changes his name to Prometheus. Prometheus has now decided, that he is an independant man, that he does not have to fear of what his mind might say.
Prometheus has changed his name, showing that he is really independent. He has changed “we” to “I”, and he says that it is not a sin, and I agree with him all the way. He could have been trapped under the Council's rule for his entire life, and he would never had known what freedom felt like, what thinking for yourself felt like. He would had lived a miserable life and then retired to the Home of the Useless, which is where all the old people go when they can no longer