Literature Analysis for The Fountainhead

Note 5-8 are 1-4 for Characterization
1. This story has a very long plot since it is over 700 pages, the main purpose is the author’s very cool but controversial philosophy, objectivism. Most of the book is not about the author shoving her thoughts into the reader. It is about a rebellious, Howard Roark and smart boy who gets expelled from a made up all male polytechnic school in New York and his former rival, Peter Keating. After the fourth year Keating graduates as valedictorian and has multiple opportunities to become an architect: go to higher education is Europe or take a job at a prestigious firm Guy and Francon. Roark winds up working for a now disgraced architect named Henry Cameroon. Keating continues to be successful but cannot relish in his success. Roark keeps slipping as his mentor retires broke and moves to another state and he is unable to find work without a degree or any experience. By the end Roark starts seeing things happen but decides to blow up a building because it is not to his specifications, he goes to jail consensually, and has his trial. He is found not guilty and the person, who helped him find opportunities, Wyanrd, allows him to finish his project, and he marries his daughter Dominique.
2. The entire point of this endless yet enjoyable novel is to be yourself and do what you want. Throughout the plot it is about people taking selfish not selfless actions to get their desired results. These do not involve violent crimes, theft, tax evasion, etc. At the end we see the protagonist fulfill his life goal and leave his legacy by constructing a skyscraper he wants and leaving his legacy no matter how insignificant, like the author has.
3. The tone is selfish; there is no other way to describe it. As the novel progresses we see this become more self-evident. When the author describes or directly intervenes all the statements are about finding your own purpose and living your own life.  “To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”  “To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?” “I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”
4. Hyperbole and Simile “Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.” Metaphor, Imagery, and Allegory “Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.” Irony “Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.” Theme and Plot “It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.” Mood “Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!” Tone “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
5. “Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.” Peter Keating to Howard Roark indirect. “He was an old man, shout, and accomplished” The narrator on Guy Francon.
6. No the author remains constant in her syntax and diction when describing almost anything it can make the read rather dull but the author favors no people, only principles and actions.
7. The protagonist(s) one is static the other is dynamic. Howard Roark remains static he throughout the story is aphetic to authority and cares about himself and leaving his own mark on the world. As for Peter Keating he changes from the shallow success oriented person to a view more like Roark’s but not nearly as radical or selfish.
8. I think the character  I meet is myself through Roark. I’ve always liked to do things my own way and work hard and achieve more by my own merit. I think his stance on everything signals to me to fight for what is right independent of critic of ours. I’m already fairly hated in life for innumerable reasons so there is little to lose and I will leave like Roark with no regrets.