Comparative Analysis: Anthem and The Maze Runner

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Ayn Rand and James Dashner each wrote a dystopian novel that was back set in the future. Ayn wrote a book called Anthem and James wrote a book called the Maze Runner. Both of these books have a lot of comparison and a lot of differences. These books have a little different writing style and Anthem is most definitely a harder read. The first American publication of Anthem was in 1946. The first publication of the Maze Runner was in 2006. The novels Anthem and Maze Runner, dystopian novels, are popular among teens because of the high expectations put among them and the oppression.
This first book, is Anthem by Ayn Rand. This story is written in a way the author doesn’t use the word “I”. Everyone refers to themselves as “we” and refers to others as “they”. Or they refer to the men as brothers, everyone must respect their brothers and never be mean or you are given a consequence. This book is a harder read because you can’t totally grasp what was happening because of all the we and they, it was hard to understand. In Anthem, all the characters have a name that got assigned to them along with some numbers. The main character in this book is named Equality 7-2521 and he likes this girl named Liberty 5-300. They don’t pick their …show more content…

Anthem, of course has a different writing style, without being able to use the word “I”. Maze Runner does say “I”, and is a lot easier read. I based my essay on the movie of Maze Runner and on the book Anthem. Movies and books are very different, so the book of Maze Runner could have been more like Anthem. Overall, Anthem was a good book and was very interesting because of the no “I” rule. The Maze Runner was a very good movie and also I normally don’t like dystopian novels or movies because I don’t really care for the mystery and misery, but this one was pretty good, I enjoyed both of them

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