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Raw Data? What is it?

This Raw Data section, organizes almost all facts of Ayn Rand’s novels, novellas, screen plays, and stage plays

Specifically,

We the Living, her shortest novel;
The Fountainhead, Rand’s most optimistic, full-length book;
Anthem, Rand’s only novella;
Atlas Shrugged, Rand’s magnum opus;
Red Pawn, Rand’s never-produced screenplay which was adapted into an animated film by the Atlas Society;
Night of January 16th, Rand’s dramatized stage play, where audience members served as the jury, determining, every night, the play’s outcome and verdict; and,
Ideal, which was originally written as a novel, by Rand, in 1934. But then transformed into a play.

Basically, these Raw Data documents function as fuller-length, data collections, for my shorter Reference Guides. Since, they organize, in Rand’s own words, most of the information from her novels, novellas, screen plays, and stage plays.

How You Can Use These Raw Data Primers in Your Own Research

Emre’s Raw Data writings are a free informational resource, which have more information, details, and evidence, than my Reference Guides do. You can print them out and use them for your own scholarship.

I offer you this cost-free information. Because I want you to accurately analyze Rand’s books. Since, I think there is too much analysis of Rand that is not based on the objective data of her books. But rather the subjective opinions of others, with no meaningful relation to what really transpires in her novels.

So, if there is a specific area of Rand’s writing that you know is there, but my Reference Guides do not cover, not to worry. Rest assured, I got you covered. Since, my raw data organizations cover everything under-the-sun. For no expense (other than printing costs) you can view my write-ups on screen, then print them out, at your leisure, on an as needed basis. So, you can form original theories based on what happens inside of Rand’s novels, not based on what other people say about her works.

1. Raw Data (The Fountainhead)

The Fountainhead’s raw data consists of a detailed presentation of the book’s 28 major characters, 124 minor characters, 37 buildings, 9 journalistic sources, 20 organizations, and 27 symbols. It also contains 86 analytical writings, a table of Rand’s fiction and non-fiction, a spreadsheet of Objectivist intellectuals who studied this book, a chronology of Rand’s life and works, and other clarifying tables, indexes, footnotes, and citations.

2. Raw Data (We the Living)

We the Living’s raw data consists of a synopsis of the book’s major characters, minor characters, musical pieces, diseases, locations, settings, city descriptions, city districts, nature scenes, sunrises, sunsets, and more. Including the novel’s newspapers, theaters, dramatic works, plays, youth groups, universities, highschools, religious symbols, propaganda, purges, and food speculation. It also has 85 original analytical writings, as well as links to movies and documentaries, that explore Soviet Communism, in some way.