Setting
Anthem takes place in a run down society in the future. The city is an anti-utopian society, which means that it is the opposite of an ideal society, like the one that we live in today. The main character, Equality 7-2521, is writing the story from the city at places such as the House of Street Sweepers and the tunnel that was discovered by Equality and International 4-8818 in the beginning of the book. In the end of the book, Equality has run away to the Uncharted Forest and the book is then finished there.