Text book Assignment for 1-21-2010

A. STYLE, TONE, AND IRONY
         - The author of WE uses style in his records because he takes and leaves some of his sentences un-finished. Sometimes the rest of what he was trying to say is clear, but sometimes there are many different ways that the ends could go.
         - The author starts off using a tone that is more relaxed and ..descriptive of what the life is like of his main character. After a while the records start to take on a sense of concern and D-503 starts to think that he is essentially going crazy.
        - The author uses irony through his main character D-503. D-503 is a mathematician and therefor thinks about things, most of the time, in mathematical terms. When he is describing some of the other character's features D-503 uses words like - box, triangle, and etc.- to describe what their face looks like. The author also adds in the irony that everything is perfect, yet we can see that a perfect system will/ and can be flawed.

B. PLOT
     - The plot throughout the story, so far, is that D-503 is writing records of what is happening to him and the One State. The One State is stated to be what is keeping everyone "in line". Everything is on a schedule and everyone is literally all the same with only the difference in name and occupation. The story seems to be taking place in the far future.

C. CHARACTERIZATION
     - I think that D-503 has a sense of existence because he has, first off, a heart beat. He writes and talks and has a job and it even talked about his education a little bit. So he seems to be human and real which really gives off a feeling that he may actually and eventually live.

D. SETTING
     - The setting is some time in the future in  a "One State" which is essentially a town, everyone is the same and expected to follow the exact same structured life and schedule.

E. POINT OF VIEW
     -The author takes a first person point of view along with a neutral omniscience view where D-503 is telling the story and we see what he sees and feels.

F. SYMBOL
     -I'm not sure what is being used a symbol throughout the story. I think that the life of the Ancients might be a symbol as to the future of D-503 and I-330, but I'm not sure.

G. THEME
     - I think the theme of this novel is about how the structured life of the One State is slowly crumbling.

I really like this book so far! It's really interesting.