"Im Worst at What, I Do Best. And For This Gift, I Feel Blessed"

The purpose of an act is merely determined by the eyes of those who eyes are engaging in the act.

I chose to use that as my topic sentence because there are so many different situations where things could of have been taken either way, depending on who's eyes you were looking through. If its from I-330 chosing D-503 or D-503 pushing O over ther wall with the unnumbered people. Everything can be taken a certain way.

"I Found It Hard, It's Hard To Find. Oh Well, Whatever. Nevermind"

What really grinded my gears in this story was how D-503 was used by I-330 throughout the whole book only because he was the first builder. As someone said in our class earlier, it reminded me of how Eve tricked Adam into biting the fruit of knowledge. In a sense I-330 did the same thing to D-503. We have to ask ourselves now, what is absolute happiness?

"Nature Is A Whore; Bruises On The Fruit; Tender Age In Bloom

The worst aspect about the story in my opinion is how everybody in the story are basically the same person.  Even though they have a alotta time where they can be their self, there isn't any privacy time.  That is the worst thing in my opinon that I couldn't see myself doing. Everything in the story was open to the prying eyes of their neighbor. Although, it would destroy envy in society, their leaves no room to be an individual; which is one of the things I strive to be.

"You Know You're Right"

The Literary Canon applies to this story in the aspect that WE is currently not accepted by the Canon. There is widespread controversy to why it is not accepted but the general reasoning behind it is because the book was originally not written by an American.

"With the Lights Out, It's Less Dangerous"

Style: The style Yevgeny Zamyatin chose to use in this book was that of sophistication. I believe that throughout the book, he made D-503 speak to the reader directly in a town that gave the impression that he was superior to the reader. It makes me wonder though, he's talking to the reader as if we were from the ancient times. But in theory, If we read it after he wrote it, wouldn't we be more advanced than he was in the future?

Tone: I think the tone of D-503 was one of superiority. He spoke as if he was better than the rest of the world.

Irony: I found irony in the story when he couldn't fornicate with O. Thats what he wanted this whole time but after his "incident" he couldn't do it anymore.

Plot: The plot of the story thus far is D-503 is just an average being in the State when he starts to feel "sick". Its not a sickness, he's just having feelings for I330 that goes against the way things are supposed to be in his society.

Characterization: Zamyatin showed characterization by giving the characters in the story problems that we face in everyday life. He's trying to make us connect with the characters to give them that "real" feeling.

Setting: The setting takes place in One State, a place in russia that everybody has everything controlled and decided for them.

Point of View:  The story is told in First-person fashion.

Symbol: I believe that this whole book serves as a symbol. The way that society is controlled in the story, reflected the way Russia was being controlled during the 20's. I also believe that the Two-Hundred-Year-War was a symbol in it's own way. I see it as addressing the issues of the Christian Crusades because they both eliminated any and everybody who didn't conform to their beliefs.

Theme: The central theme of the story is to show the flaws that Russia had with it's government during the 20's. They wanted to strip away freedome and individualism from their country to eliminate crime. Although, this book is showing how unsuccessful the system was.

"I have so much energy, Red Bull should sponsor me!"

Good afternoon!

My name is Tobaria Tre'vell Ruffin, and I am currently a freshman here at the university of South Dakota. I came all the way from Chicago to attend school here, I'm crazy right? Thats the usual response that I get when I tell people where I'm from. My favorite band would have to be Nirvana, Kurt Cobain is just pure energy behind a microphone! My interests are aviation, sports, Madden and music. I listen to any and every genre Except country. I just never could get into that type.Oh, and I hate Will Smith with a passion... Seriously.. he is just not funny!