Hello everyone,
At the beginning of We, D-503 talks about how living in the One-State makes life better. He goes on later in the novel to explore his own freewill. Finally, at the of the novel D-503 goes back to loving the One-State and not even knowing about freewill. For my research paper, I would like to explore whether freewill or having a governing body making ones every move for that person is better.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The end of the book - #5
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Pg. 167 - D-503 helps O and their baby get to I-330 behind the wall so that the two of them may be safe. Also, so O will not have the baby taken from her after she gives birth to the child.
Pg. 187 - The Benefactor shows the hypocrisy of the ancestor's Christian believes and God. How the God was said to be a God of love, but he kill with fire and blood. Also, this God sent people to the pits of Hell.
Pg. 189 - D-503 seems to wish that he was Jesus because if he was he would have a mother. This mother, like Mary, would stand beside him no matter what. Like Mary did when Jesus was being nailed to the cross.
In this last reading I found it interesting on how many direct religious link there were. Yet, the end does not match up with these links as I thought that I would, but the ending was very similar to Jesus' death. According to the Benefactor, "In paradise, they don't know desire, they don't know pity, they don't know love. There, angels, the slaves of God"(187-188). This is how the book ended. D-503 was brain washed from his real self, the free thinking self, and turned back into an angel of God, the Benefactor. At the end of the book D-503 speaks of the resistance and says reason, the One-State, will again take back control.
Pg. 167 - D-503 helps O and their baby get to I-330 behind the wall so that the two of them may be safe. Also, so O will not have the baby taken from her after she gives birth to the child.
Pg. 187 - The Benefactor shows the hypocrisy of the ancestor's Christian believes and God. How the God was said to be a God of love, but he kill with fire and blood. Also, this God sent people to the pits of Hell.
Pg. 189 - D-503 seems to wish that he was Jesus because if he was he would have a mother. This mother, like Mary, would stand beside him no matter what. Like Mary did when Jesus was being nailed to the cross.
In this last reading I found it interesting on how many direct religious link there were. Yet, the end does not match up with these links as I thought that I would, but the ending was very similar to Jesus' death. According to the Benefactor, "In paradise, they don't know desire, they don't know pity, they don't know love. There, angels, the slaves of God"(187-188). This is how the book ended. D-503 was brain washed from his real self, the free thinking self, and turned back into an angel of God, the Benefactor. At the end of the book D-503 speaks of the resistance and says reason, the One-State, will again take back control.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
#4
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What would I hate most about living in the One-State? I feel to answer this question, I must try to put myself in that situation. Not having parents, not being able to go outside the Green Wall, not being able to get married, these things would make anyone crazy. Yet, how would a person be driven crazy by something that person does not know? While in the One-State, a person belongs to the One-State. I feel that for me, I would not miss my family, my freedom, or the right to get married because I would not even no that those freedoms exist. If something come up, such as in D-503's case, that made me question everything that I was raised with, that is what I would hate. To know that everything that I always knew was true is now false.
What would I hate most about living in the One-State? I feel to answer this question, I must try to put myself in that situation. Not having parents, not being able to go outside the Green Wall, not being able to get married, these things would make anyone crazy. Yet, how would a person be driven crazy by something that person does not know? While in the One-State, a person belongs to the One-State. I feel that for me, I would not miss my family, my freedom, or the right to get married because I would not even no that those freedoms exist. If something come up, such as in D-503's case, that made me question everything that I was raised with, that is what I would hate. To know that everything that I always knew was true is now false.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Blog # 3
Hello again,
I believe that both biographical and historical strategies are closely related in this novel. In the introduction to the story, the reader was informed that Zamyatin, the author, was born and raised in Russia. With being born and raised in Russia during the time of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War 1, comes the understanding that most of the world at this time was in a poor economic state. Russia stood as one of the worst strong nations. The people were unhappy with there leadership and this allowed for the beginning of communism to rise in Russia. While in Russia, Zamyatin loved his country; yet while writing works that were looked down upon by his nation's leaders, he was imprisoned. With this, I for see D-503's down fall having to do with him acknowledging his own option and being sent to the operation room. Also, in this last reading I found it funny that D-503 asks, "Do you ever feel that your shadow sees you?" I just thought of the jokes, "In Soviet Russia car drive you or In Soviet Russia TV watch you."
I believe that both biographical and historical strategies are closely related in this novel. In the introduction to the story, the reader was informed that Zamyatin, the author, was born and raised in Russia. With being born and raised in Russia during the time of the Bolshevik Revolution and World War 1, comes the understanding that most of the world at this time was in a poor economic state. Russia stood as one of the worst strong nations. The people were unhappy with there leadership and this allowed for the beginning of communism to rise in Russia. While in Russia, Zamyatin loved his country; yet while writing works that were looked down upon by his nation's leaders, he was imprisoned. With this, I for see D-503's down fall having to do with him acknowledging his own option and being sent to the operation room. Also, in this last reading I found it funny that D-503 asks, "Do you ever feel that your shadow sees you?" I just thought of the jokes, "In Soviet Russia car drive you or In Soviet Russia TV watch you."
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Hello again everyone,
1) Plot- One State, most likely in a city
2) Flashback - When D-503 is with O for their pink time, D-503 keeps flashing back to having sex with I-133
3) Character- D-503, I-133, R-13, O-90
4) Exposition - The One-State is a communist nation; it is were the common people usually do not have any personal freedoms. With this, the story becomes easy to understand because it is human nature to be free.
5) Rising action - Meeting O,R,I, the two times that D-503 and I-133 have gone to the ancestral house
6) Conflict - The conflict so far is mostly internal. D-503 fells that the One-State rules him, but I-133 is trying to take over D-503's life, so he feels.
7) Foreshadowing- We learn about the operating room. After the forbidden sex, liquor, and tobacco, the reader knows that the operation room and all of its horrors will come up again.
8) Protagonist - D-503
9) Antagonist- I-133
10) Suspense -At the end of the second reading assignment, D-503 is getting yelled at for being sick and day dreaming. I want to know what happens, but the chapter just cuts off and leaves me hanging
11)Climax - unknown
12) Resolution - unknown
13) Characterization- The man in the mirror, D-503's real self
14) Showing and Telling- D-503 reveals himself in his journal entries
15) Motivation - D-503 wants happiness, freedom, and sex
16) Plausible - D-503 skipping work, second guessing himself, looking in the mirror to find his really self
17) Consistent - D-503 always is analyzing everything
18) Absurdist Literature - D-503 = square root of -1
19) Antihero - One-State
20) Dynamic - D-503 is starting to change from wanting to turn I-133 in the to wanting to have more law breaking activities
21) Static - O-90 has not changed yet, I do not think.
22) Foil - I-133 keeps pushing D-503 to change
23) Flat Character - O-90 seems to not give much to the story.
24) Stock Character - O-90
25) Round Character - D-503 is always questioning and analyzing
26) Setting - In a city, work place, ancestor house, apartments
27) Point of View - D-503
28) Narrator - D-503
29) Omniscient Narrator - no
30) Editorial Narrator - no
31) Neutral Narrator - very fitting to D-503
32) Limited Omniscient Narrator - no
33) Unreliable Narrator - No, the narrator and the author seem to be very similar
34) Native Narrator - No, I do not think that this applies
35) Stream of consciousness technique - Yes, the reader is constantly in D-504's mind
36) Objective point of view - no
37) First person narrator - at time this can be seem
38) Symbol - Integral = a symbol of knowledge
39) Conventional Symbol - alcohol - fun and freedom
40) Literal Symbol - square root of -1 = imaginary
41) Allegory - fog= scary
42) Theme - Unknown at this point in time. I feel as if i could guess, but I also feel that there should be a falling action and an ending
1) Plot- One State, most likely in a city
2) Flashback - When D-503 is with O for their pink time, D-503 keeps flashing back to having sex with I-133
3) Character- D-503, I-133, R-13, O-90
4) Exposition - The One-State is a communist nation; it is were the common people usually do not have any personal freedoms. With this, the story becomes easy to understand because it is human nature to be free.
5) Rising action - Meeting O,R,I, the two times that D-503 and I-133 have gone to the ancestral house
6) Conflict - The conflict so far is mostly internal. D-503 fells that the One-State rules him, but I-133 is trying to take over D-503's life, so he feels.
7) Foreshadowing- We learn about the operating room. After the forbidden sex, liquor, and tobacco, the reader knows that the operation room and all of its horrors will come up again.
8) Protagonist - D-503
9) Antagonist- I-133
10) Suspense -At the end of the second reading assignment, D-503 is getting yelled at for being sick and day dreaming. I want to know what happens, but the chapter just cuts off and leaves me hanging
11)Climax - unknown
12) Resolution - unknown
13) Characterization- The man in the mirror, D-503's real self
14) Showing and Telling- D-503 reveals himself in his journal entries
15) Motivation - D-503 wants happiness, freedom, and sex
16) Plausible - D-503 skipping work, second guessing himself, looking in the mirror to find his really self
17) Consistent - D-503 always is analyzing everything
18) Absurdist Literature - D-503 = square root of -1
19) Antihero - One-State
20) Dynamic - D-503 is starting to change from wanting to turn I-133 in the to wanting to have more law breaking activities
21) Static - O-90 has not changed yet, I do not think.
22) Foil - I-133 keeps pushing D-503 to change
23) Flat Character - O-90 seems to not give much to the story.
24) Stock Character - O-90
25) Round Character - D-503 is always questioning and analyzing
26) Setting - In a city, work place, ancestor house, apartments
27) Point of View - D-503
28) Narrator - D-503
29) Omniscient Narrator - no
30) Editorial Narrator - no
31) Neutral Narrator - very fitting to D-503
32) Limited Omniscient Narrator - no
33) Unreliable Narrator - No, the narrator and the author seem to be very similar
34) Native Narrator - No, I do not think that this applies
35) Stream of consciousness technique - Yes, the reader is constantly in D-504's mind
36) Objective point of view - no
37) First person narrator - at time this can be seem
38) Symbol - Integral = a symbol of knowledge
39) Conventional Symbol - alcohol - fun and freedom
40) Literal Symbol - square root of -1 = imaginary
41) Allegory - fog= scary
42) Theme - Unknown at this point in time. I feel as if i could guess, but I also feel that there should be a falling action and an ending
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Intro to me and WE
Hello all,
My name is Aaron Hauger. I am a freshmen that is studying Psychology, Tech Theater, and statistics. In my free time I enjoy cooking, thinking, and hanging out with friends. Life is every strange for me right now, as it probably is for everyone, but I feel like I need to do something bigger than go to USD. With Psychology I feel like I should to the University of Minnesota. Anyone with something to say on this matter feel free to let me know what you think.
Now, I am not really sure if we had to blog about the reading in WE, if we did here it goes.
The reading really spoke to me. As a student in high school, I read 1984. Both books are very close in plot so far. One thing that is different between the two novels that I thought were odd, it seems that in WE everything under the One-State makes everyone equal, yet women seem like they are property. Whenever women are referred to, they are all said to be registered to someone and the men are never said to be. Along with this, these women are registered to more than one man. I also feel, that reading the v to chapter 1 really helped with getting into the story. It is easy to see parallels between Yevgeny Zamyatin and D-503. They both love their country and would not like to be anywhere else in the world.
Sincerely,
Aaron Hauger
My name is Aaron Hauger. I am a freshmen that is studying Psychology, Tech Theater, and statistics. In my free time I enjoy cooking, thinking, and hanging out with friends. Life is every strange for me right now, as it probably is for everyone, but I feel like I need to do something bigger than go to USD. With Psychology I feel like I should to the University of Minnesota. Anyone with something to say on this matter feel free to let me know what you think.
Now, I am not really sure if we had to blog about the reading in WE, if we did here it goes.
The reading really spoke to me. As a student in high school, I read 1984. Both books are very close in plot so far. One thing that is different between the two novels that I thought were odd, it seems that in WE everything under the One-State makes everyone equal, yet women seem like they are property. Whenever women are referred to, they are all said to be registered to someone and the men are never said to be. Along with this, these women are registered to more than one man. I also feel, that reading the v to chapter 1 really helped with getting into the story. It is easy to see parallels between Yevgeny Zamyatin and D-503. They both love their country and would not like to be anywhere else in the world.
Sincerely,
Aaron Hauger
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