Ayn Rand used an interesting style while writing Anthem by using short, non-descriptive words, and as I stated before she has almost a robotic way of telling her story. For example:
“We stopped when we felt hunger. We saw birds in the tree branches, and flying from under our footsteps. We picked a stone and we sent it as an arrow at a bird. It fell before us. We made a fire, we cooked the bird, and we ate it,...” p. 79
Although Rand leaves us as readers with little detail on her characters and setting, she does use a unique language, such as “the night of the ages.” p. 59 or “And the roads of the world will become as veins which will carry the best of the world’s blood to my threshold.” p104.
Although her writing seems vague and indistinct, her writing gives off an air of powerful simplicity that ends up giving us as readers the chance to develop more of a picture in our brains as we read. I noticed as I read that it was confusing and quite vague, but rereading certain passages made me realize much of her writing leaves you with a very unique and powerful aura after finishing a sentence or paragraph.
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