Hymn: The Sin of Living Prometheus, the hero of the novel Anthem, has struggled to free himself from the collectivist world in which he lives. His victory was possible thanks to breaking many rules. He realized from the beginning that he was not like all the other children in the baby home and the pupil home. When he became a street cleaner, he was so sad. He wanted to progress and become smarter in the house of scholars, but because he was different he was not sent there. Prometheus knows he is different. He is made conscious in the children's home. In the book Anthem it states: "...and of all the kids that year, we were most often locked in the cellar." Everything about him was different, he was too tall and too smart and everything he thought was different. He was marginalized by this collectivist society because he was different and in a collective world everyone should be equal, work for their brothers and follow all the rules. When he was at the students' homes he really tried to fit in but it didn't work. His teachers knew he acted differently because he asked too many questions. He sometimes deceived his teachers, but even then he was still an outcast because of his appearance. Ayn Rand wrote, “We are six feet tall, and that is a burden, for there are not many men six feet tall.” Prometheus breaks the rules from the beginning of his life: in the baby house he fought with his brothers and in the student house he was too clever. He asked himself a lot of questions, so he asked a lot of questions and this was forbidden. When Prometheus found the tunnel he must have known it was a shame because International 4-8818 told him "it is forbidden." He couldn't have known what he was doing first, then he realized it later. The first sentence of the book Anthem is: "It's a shame to write this." His whole life is a sin.