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The Good Life, Laws and Rules, The Individual is a part of the Collective,…

- - - - "The true journey is to return" - The Disposessed
      - "[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture—in front of us—our own little mirage that we think is the future. - Benethea in A Raisin in the Sun
      - Changez's return to Pakistan
      - Kincaid wonders if Old Antigua really was any worse than the tourist-ridden paradise it is today. Despite slavery and colonialism being no more, she challenges this notion of a fruitful "progress" by demonstrating the decline of her island's culture and the people invading it (tourists now, rather than colonialists, but not all that different).
    - - "Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change" - Jim in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
      - It isn’t a circle—it is simply a long line—as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end—we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd that those who see the changes—who dream, who will not give up—are called idealists…and those who see only the circle we call them the “realists”! - Asagai to Benethea in A Raisin in the Sun
    - - In The Disposessed, Shevek's unification of sequency and simultaneity is the ultimate revolution. "Revolution" posits a change in the context of the broader time. His physics revolution is one which posits a revolution of time itself.
  - - - In Madame Bovary, Charles "ruminant" nature causes him to re-chew his experiences to manufacture a mundane and banal form of happiness.
- - - - "Value" as externally determined rather than inherent to nature
        
        In The Dispossessed societal structures determine what is valued. This can differ wildly from society to society,
        
        Ex: Annarres values the sharing of labor, while Urras values the division of it (both for different reasons)
        
        In The Reluctant Fundamentalist Changez is in the business of evaluations, and value is quantized in Underwood Sampson's almost clinical process of evaluating company "perfromance". Value is based on this performance and efficiency of output, in accordance the values of capitalistic American society.
        
        The assessment of value is an iterative process. It is continually up-for-grabs and can be increased and decreased from evaluation to evaluation. This corporate process mimics the American Dream: you can always move up or down the ladder of societal value based on your "perfromance", but you will always be trapped on the ladder and are always assessed and scrutinized. Like Changez, your value to the country can change in an instant.
        
        In Life and Debt, the IMF and Global Banks trapped Jamaica in a market that continually devalues their goods and their currency. The "value" of their dollar is controlled by a the complex web of economic principles that they are trapped in. Thus, their "value" on a global scale, is determined by their place in the global economy, which is determined by the countries that are already more well off.
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