The Fountainhead
When I was faced with the challenge of choosing a book for my final project, I had no idea what to choose. Later that night my mom made me go through scholarship stuff. I found an essay competition for Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. I decided to kill two birds with one stone and went out to buy it.
That same night I started reading. My mom had warned me ahead of time that I would not agree with most of Ayn Rand’s philosophies and no to get too wrapped up in my feelings toward her beliefs. I started out reading her short biography.
Ayn Rand survived a communist Soviet Union and escaped to America. The thought of anything that takes away control from someone else makes her angry. This is why she has a problem with religion. She states that any religious person is a “man hater” because they could never realize the full potential of man. Her literature is dripping with anti-communist and anti-relgious language.
