Topic for Literary Analysis

I am going to do my topic on government/freedom for my literary analysis.  I found good information about the government in Russia in the 1920s and also about the government/society in the book We.

The end of We

I thought the book was going to be very good because I love to read science fiction books and watch science fiction movies.  Overall, I thought it was very confusing for me but when we went over in class I understood it a lot better.  I liked the fact that it dealt with mathematics because I am good at it and it interests me.  

Worst thing in We to me

I think that the worst thing about We is the fact that they have to have permission to have sex.  This is one of the most personal things or actions in people's lives and having permission to do it is just absurd.  Also they can't have their own children which is ridiculous because you would think that people want to keep their own kids but because of the One-State, they can't keep them and do not realize it.  It would be a terrible life to live in this book and have all these stupid rules you have to follow.

Strategies

Biographical Strategies- Some strategies that writers use is biographical strategies.  They use things that has happened to them in their real life and apply it to their work.  This can be said about We.  In We, some of the characters or actions can be from what really happened in Zamyatin's life.  The book We can really tell a lot about the writer because they use a lot of their person things in their work.

Historical Strategies- Historical strategies are used in many novels and books.  This is used because sometimes the reader can't understand the place and time normally, but in literature they can understand it.  In We, this strategy can be used the other way.  The author possibly could have looked and the time and place he was in and did the opposite.  He had to think how it would be in the future without knowing what it really is going to be like.

Reader Response Strategies- This strategy is that it focuses more on the reader rather than the actual work.  It focuses more on the reader's mind when they are reading to make a bigger impact on them.  In We, this is used with the main character, D-503, by making the reader think of what's going on in his head rather than the actual story line.

Vocab relating to We

Style- In We, the author rearranges his words so it is almost like a math equation, so it is different than ours to make seem like it is more in the future.
Tone- The author's attitude is very different in We to show that people do not have tones in the book because they are all supposed to be robots.
Irony- The ironic part of this book is that they refer to us as ancestors, which is weird that they are that far ahead in the future.
Plot- In We, there isn't much of a plot yet, except for the fact that D-503 wants to have sex with I-330.
Characterization- In We, the author makes it seem like D-503 really existed, because of how much he had in common with known people in today's world.
Setting- The story takes place on the One-State in the future.
Point of view- The point of view in We is that the government becomes more corrupt and that people lost a lot of freedom.
Symbol- A symbol in We is how their names are numbers and letters.  This represents how today that we are not very different.  We are all identified by numbers but we just don't realize it.
Theme- It is hard to tell what the main idea of the story is because I have not read it all yet but I think the meaning will have something to do with relating back to our society.

About Me

My name is Trev Koedam.  I am from Sioux Center, Iowa and I am a freshman.  I plan on majoring in accounting.  I like to play and watch sports, especially baseball and football.  I am a Green Bay Packers fan and a Colorado Rockies fan.  I also like to play Xbox, especially Call of Duty.