Year One Year One Hundred

Year One Thousand

The Protagonist

The Earth

The People of Earth

Freedom

Language

Who are the real enemies?• “They are monsters. And so are we.”

What is the real danger? “Evil triumphs when good men do

nothing”

One year that the Colonists have been here• They are killing all opposition• Beginning to gene fix the children• Hovering over the U.N. building in New York• Turned China into their Colony

Turned into domes

Why a parade? Why use drugs? Boy vs Girl Freedom? “Our planet, know.”

Earth is completely colonized/terraformed

Three main different settings• Gives the reader three different stories that all tie

together Follows the life of the protagonist 90% of the story is told through dialogue

• 3rd limited pov Story begins In Media Res (in the middle)

• No exposition or inciting incident, plot begins during the rising action and follows the rest of the structure to the resolution

The Significance and Symbolization of New Year’s Day• New year, new resolutions, new beginnings

“I have to go home.”• Symbolization of home

Their eyes• His guilt symbolizes our guilt

Plants as a nature motif• We have seen this before-nature wins