We

Reading We was a very eye opening experiance for me. I had never really read anything like it. The broken thoughts and the emotion it contained made it good. Here's what I got out of it:

As I read it, I took extreme notice of how D-503 was in the beginning. He was the obediant machiene making mathematician. Doing everything that society told him, he was the perfect example to everyone. His transition to the rebellious and thoughtful person made me think. It showed that no matter how much a society tries to limit, and crush and tear away the soul and emotion out of someone, it is almost impossible to chain them back and keep them from feeling anything. Once the feeling and the emotion comes into play, there is almost no stopping the person from living...really living.
To me, the pink slips represented the evils of the society. If someone came up to me in the street and asked me to define We with two words, I would say pink slip. It takes every belief that we have of two people being together and twists it into an emotionless, instant gradification filled nightmare. It is a miny version of the society. It takes all things that are real and deep and manipulates them to the maximum and uses it for its own benefits, in this case, to make the people think that they have some control in choosing a partner when they actually have no control over everything. Yet everyone in the society thinks that they are living a perfectly normal life. Because everyone knows that glass walls and dull colors and assigned friends and an all powerful machiene that governs the place is normal. NOT.
On to I-330. I never thought of her and D-503 as a romance. I always thought of her as his driving force to change. As evidenced from her romances with other men, she not only wanted a revolution but had a huge ego which needed to be satisfied by playing with men's hearts. I thought that I-330 and D-503 were almost mirrored souls the entire book. When they were together everything had a spark and I think that they both had the mental capacity to get what they wanted and to think what they wanted and I think that is why D-503 fell so hard for her--because in some remote corner of his brain, he saw himself in her.