Paper

For my paper for class I'm going to write about how the Zamyatin wrote how different D-503 started being when he met I-330.  She was the one thing that made him open up his eyes and made him have a soul.  Also how they have a set style of living.  I want to compair it to how we live today, and to how they lived in the book.  I guess I'd be looking at Marxist criticism.

We

For the overall book I thought that it was a pretty good story.  I like how I could relate a lot of different events that happened throughout We with how our society is today and how we as humans live on this Earth.  And most the time I don't really care for Sci-Fi books, but this one I really enjoyed of what was being said in the book.  I got a lot more out if it than I thought I was going too, and I appreciate it.  I also enjoyed that the author knew so much about numbers and didn't have to make them up sort of thing to symbolis other things that were key in the text.

One Thing I Wouldn't Like Being Taken Away From Me

The one thing that I wouldn't want taken away from me that the One State seems to take away from D-503 and all the numbered people is their freedom to have free thoughts.  It seems since they have the set times for everything, forced to give their children away, or anything else that the One State makes them do.  They never really have time to think about anything other than all the things that they are told to focus on.  That is kind of how I feel like that is how or society is.  There is so much out there that schools and the government don't tell us.  For example numerology or astrology. Things like are so interesting that there should be something like that out there for kids to take in school.

Historical Strategies.

Out of all three of the strategies that we needed to read, the one that I think fits with We the most is the historical strategy. The Marxist Criticism fits well because it focuses on culture, race, class, and power. I think this fits because it seems as if the One State is all based off of power.  Also since the book is written as a look into the future, it describes our society today.  Since that is what keeps the world going around everyone wants power and wants money and to work their way up the ladder of "success."

I do think that all three strategies could all fit, but the historical one stood out the most to me.

Terms

Style- In We style is used how the author used numbers to make us think that they are robots and how he describes how he the people that live in the state have no identity really, and makes the reader think that they are robots.


Tone-  this is showen in We how Randall words how D-503 sees how the One State is, and how they are all the people see how the Ancient ones are. 


Irony- when they sit in the glass box that they are in they don't really see what is out in the world and what they could do with their lives because they aren't able to see the truth in life in less they rebel. 

Plot-  at first D-504 doesn't realize that everyone is different he is always taught to fallow the rules and do what his "society" has told him to do. Yet, throughout the story he starts to realize the real "him" as he says. 


Characterization- Randall makes it feel like D-503 was a real person and that something like the One State could be really going on.

Setting-  The setting is set for the reader to think that it is in the past, but gives the reader the feeling that it is a futuristic view because of how they are all known by numbers, like we are know by numbers in todays society. 
 
Point of View- We is told by the main character of the story which is D-503, and he tells the story in first person. 

Symbol- The notebook that R gives D-503 is symbolic because this is more when D-503 starts to find himself.

Theme- To me the theme of We is that there is so much out in the world that we as humans could learn and see if we would just stop being part of the norm and tried to open our eyes and realize that there is so much more to life than trying to be like people and what society says is right or wrong.  Americans and the world in general don't use all of their brian and could see so much more out of life if they would just open up their eyes and look.  And I think that is what Randall is trying to get at in the story, because D-503 starts to change when he meets I-330.

Intro

First of all I'm Billie.

I'm still learning a lot about myself and who I am as a person.  I've gone through a lot of changes this year already coming to college.  I use to play soccer at USD, but then I realized how hard it was to balance school, soccer, and a social life.  So I quit soccer so I could focus on my school work.

I'm from Rapid City. I'm definitely a west river girl.  I love to snow board, long board, wake board, anything really that involves being out side and out in the hills.  I'm an only child. I'm a pretty open minded person.  I'm always up for a new idea or "adventure".  I enjoy meeting new people and learning what they think of life and to hear what they think their meaning of life is.

Someday I want to write for a snow boarding magazine and travel with a bunch of riders.  After college I plan on moving to Colorado or Oregon.