Setting:
Throughout the second third the story mainly takes place in the ancient house where D-503 meets with I-330. While in this ancient house D-503 begins to develop an imagination with the help of his new lover I-330. I think that the ancient house is the "origin" of the authors motifs and symbols for D-503 and the entire novel. "A second's pause at the door [...] I died" (85) In tis one quote the auhhor describes all the colors that are reoccurring regusrky throughout the novel: green, red, and yellow. And then it also mentions the mirror door, and earlier in the novel he was describing people's eyes as mirrors. So I think that the house itself could represent the community while the doors represent the guardins preventing the citizens from going outside of their dome.
Motif:
The author continues to make facial features very important throughout the second third however eyebrows are now the reoccurring feature. Through this feature the author expresses D-503's mindset. For when his eyebrows are normal he is calm. But when they are "mangled, broken" (97) D-503 is very frustrated. During this instance he just received a letter from I-330 and he was tearing up the letter in frustration. The author also uses other facial features to shown when D-503 is describing his new soul by describing a line that travels in-between his eyebrows. I wonder if it is possible for the line to be caused by his subconscious frustration with the rules that must be followed. However he knows that this is not allowed in his society so he tries to deny his new feelings.
Language:
During the second third the author adds a lot of hyphens along with different breaks during dialogue or when the main character is describing his own thoughts. "the letter [...] my feet" (97). I think that the author does this to maybe convey the complexity if the thoughts or task at hand. Another theory I had was that this shows how D-503 is beginning to challenge what his government is telling because it becomes harder to make decisions or even what think against the government because he becomes open to being
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