#33. Where do the infants stay? Where do the children stay? What are their lives like? What was Ayn Rand saying through this?
The “Home of the Infants” is where all boys, including Equality 7-2521, lived "with a hundred beds and nothing else in it". It was a sort of early childhood brainwashing station. Equality 7-2521's only transgression here is that he was a curious child. One should not stand out from the other kids.
His real transgression didn’t really begin until age five. When you reach the age of five years old, they are sent to the Home Of Students, where there are ten wards, for the ten years of learning. Men must learn till they reach their fifteenth year. Then they go to work. For Equality 7-2521 he fought with other boys and was considered too tall and too smart.
Their lives are very organized and planned out. Everybody has to be like everybody and if they’re different then they are looked down upon. For Equality 7-2521 you would think he has it all because he is young, beautiful, tall, strong, fearless and brilliant; but he is considered different for all of those things therefore no one likes him or wants anything to do with him. Ayn Rand is saying it is okay to be different and nobody can be perfect. It’s hard to make everyone the same so just stay yourself.
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