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Motifs- I found a repetition of the colors blue and pink. Pink is used to describe the character O-90 and blue is used when describing D-503. Blue and pink are both gender specific colors so I think Zamyatin did this to highlight the difference between men and women in the society. There is also constant use of the letter X. X is a variable commonly used to solve algebraic equations and is the "unknown". X is used to show the unknowns or problems that D faces. This helps show how the society is based around logic to solve all problems. Even in a world based on logic there are still unknowns. Another math concept that is used in the book is the square root of -1. The square root of -1 is known as an imaginary number. "This irrational number had grown into me like something foreign, alien, terrifying" (39). It is very difficult for D to understand the concept of an imaginary number because it is not tangible. This imaginary number can be linked to the imagination that the people in the society lack.

Setting-All of the apartments are made of glass. Anyone can see into the apartments, except when the shades are down. No one has any secrets or privacy. There are also Guardians who has the job of watching everyone and making sure they follow the rules. These things help show what the society is. The people living there have no privacy and are under constant surveillance and under some control. The entire city is surrounded by the Green Wall. "Then, in the distance, blurred by green spots-out there, behind the Wall" (25). This is a wall that surrounds the city and keeps the outside from effecting the city. This being animals and nature. Nature must be damaging to the control the government can keep on the people.

Language- The narrator speaks in a very mathematical way. "Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness" (21)? He uses math terms and writes explaining the logic he uses to understand things. D also seems to lose his train of thought at times. He will be writing in his journal and then cut off on some tangent. This helps show how in this society the people are very logical and think things through, but also when something doesn't make sense they struggle with finding a solution and look at multiple different views to solve it like an equation. The book is also written in the form of journals. This makes it difficult to know what is happening through out the story. The reader is only aware of what D writes in his journal.