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Meet Ayn Rand

Meet Ayn Rand. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905 Taught herself to read at age six By age nine, had decided to become a writer. 4 th Period. Retrieve your graded The Maze Runner project from the blue basket on my chair. Ayn.

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Meet Ayn Rand

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  1. Meet Ayn Rand • Born in St. Petersburg, Russia on February 2, 1905 • Taught herself to read at age six • By age nine, had decided to become a writer

  2. 4th Period • Retrieve your graded The Maze Runner project from the blue basket on my chair.

  3. Ayn • During her high school years, she was eyewitness to the Kerensky Revolution, which she supported • 1917 brought the Bolshevik Revolution, which she denounced

  4. Why is this important? • Understanding the life experiences of Ayn Rand will give us insight into her novel, Anthem. • Anthem raises questions about what a society should be. • If we have a clear picture of the society in which Ayn Rand lived, we will be equipped to find the themes of the novel.

  5. Back to Biography • In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where she finished high school. • The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father's pharmacy and periods of near-starvation.

  6. Ayn and America • When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be. • In late 1925 she obtained permission to leave Soviet Russia for a visit to relatives in the United States. Although she told Soviet authorities that her visit would be short, she was determined never to return to Russia.

  7. Coming to America • She arrived in New York City in February 1926. She spent the next six months with her relatives in Chicago, obtained an extension to her visa, and then left for Hollywood to pursue a career as a screenwriter.

  8. Hollywood • On Ayn Rand's second day in Hollywood, Cecil B. DeMille saw her standing at the gate of his studio, offered her a ride to the set of his movie and gave her a job, first as an extra, then as a script reader. During the next week at the studio, she met an actor, Frank O'Connor, whom she married in 1929; they were married until his death fifty years later.

  9. Timeline • 1931 - Becomes U.S. citizen (March 13) • 1932 - Sells "Red Pawn" to Universal Pictures (September 2) • 1934 - Makes first entry in philosophic journal (April 9)Writes IdealFirst play, Woman on Trial, opens in Hollywood (October 22)Moves to New York City (November)

  10. Timeline • 1935 - Night of January 16th (formerly Woman on Trial) opens on Broadway (September 16)Makes first notes for The Fountainhead (December 4) • 1936 - We the Living published (April 18) • 1938 - Anthem published, England (circa May 7) • 1939 - Receives last communication from parents in USSR (circa January)

  11. 1940 - 1982 • The Fountainhead • Atlas Shrugged • campus talks • The Objectivist Newsletter • teaches nonfiction writing course • television appearances • many more accomplishments

  12. Ayn rand • Ayn Rand died in New York City, on March 6, 1982. • Source: www.aynrand.org

  13. so, now what?

  14. anthem

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