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Individuality vs Conformity, image, Newspaper The Daily Telegraph 1950ish,…
Individuality vs Conformity
QUOTES
"Note the word newspapers. That was the first time I had ever seen one." (p.127)
"The wall was already neck-breaking high to begin with. Why did anyone feel the need to make it higher?" (p.124)
"The Greenflies rounded up every able-bodied person in Zone Seven. They left Hector." (p.131)
"The road was out of bounds because of the four o'clock curfew" (p.123)
QUOTES
"Gramps didn’t put his hand up because he knew it was a trick to make it look as if we were all saluting the Motherland, and we weren’t." (p.132/133)
"He pointed to a piece of paper on the table. It had writing on it. His handwriting. I knew what it said. I didn’t need the written words to tell me. I knew they had been taken." (p.146)
"Gramps had the radio on, tuned to the only station that the authorities allowed us mere lava mites to listen to." (p.150)
"We were being watched." (p.153)
"After that war, the Motherland introduced the first program of re-education." (p.155)
"Only in our minds were we free to dream." (p.153)
"Some were the wrong breed, wrong color, wrong nationality. They weren’t allowed a re-education." (p.155)
"I knew for certain that Gramps and me were unlikely ever to make it out of Zone Seven." (p.165)
"It was Miss Phillips who had argued that they wouldn’t want a boy like me, a boy who had trouble tying his shoelaces." (p.182)
"I knew that haircut and I knew exactly what that haircut meant. It was what they did to the Obstructors. Strip them naked, take away all their clothes, cut their hair off." (p.181)
"You see, that intruder was too well-dressed. Much like the dead rats he was too clean, too well-fed." (pg. 173)
"Owning a television is enough of an offense in itself for both of us to be sent away to be reeducated." (p.165)
" 'You are being offered salvation over annihilation. You will both be sent on a re-education course.' ” (p.190)
"I have this effect on people. They think I’m not paying attention when I am." (p.190)
“Punishment for not cooperating.” (p.199)
