Colors: last time I talked about how colors could be a possible motif, but now that I've read more I don't think they are. He still mentions the pinks when referring to women or sex because their pink coupons permit sex, and greens in nature, and some days are yellow and the sun and the atmosphere, but for the most part I feel that colors don't play much significance anymore, or maybe they never did and I was just mislead and over analyzing the color scheme.
Faces: D-503 always describes the faces of those he talks to and at the beginning of the 2nd third he would continue to describe various facial movements in the way that their shapes are, rather than saying frown or anger. But now, he doesn't say she looked angry, but he's better at noticing a facial expression has emotion rather than shapes that make it up, for instance he says, "stern, shaggy eyebrows turned to me" (156). D notices that the face is stern, but rather he focuses on one aspect of the face rather than the bigger picture of the emotions.
Nature: He's mentioned before that the society doesn't find nature to be very attractive or important, but he always describes things in nature metaphors, like he says, "I kissed the ingrown mossy mouth" (94). I just think it's interesting that he mentions nature so often, I think that shows how he's different that the society too because of how often he mentions something that they all find repulsive.
Glass: There's still a lot of mention of glass, so the analysis I put for that in my first entry still stands about how it's a very clear way to depict the governments ability to look into the lives of the people.
Souls: "I have a soul, I am a microbe" (131). He mentions souls a lot, and how it's "bad" to have one, yet he realizes that he is gaining a soul, and with that imagination which goes against his life and society. they believe that imagination and souls are one in the same and to have an imagination or a soul, would be proving the completely math driven, logical society, wrong. Through this motif it is shown that there is conflict in the society with people having souls, emotions, imagination, and how the society that the government has created cannot function properly or have total control when individuals have imaginations.
Setting:
Sun: D-503 mentions the weather and the day changing on page 104 and he says the the day was different but that the setting rays from the sun "fell at exactly the same angle" as the ones when the sun rises, so that makes me question the governments ability to control the weather. I'm not sure why they would want to do this, other than to show that they can, to keep things in their control, to have more power than God, or nature or outside forces. So I guess the weather control shows governmental control.
Green wall and nature: at the beginning of the seventeenth entry he talks about how the green wall blocks out ugly nature, and the ocean, so I don't think there's any moving bodies of water in their society. He says that they were isolated from trees and other nature, so that also makes me question if they have any nature inside their society, and if not, how does D-503 describe it so well, or how does it come to his mind so often? He also thanks the green wall for being there, he's happy to be inside the wall and away from the rest of the world, so I imagine that's how many people feel because the wall is just glass, and I would imagine if people wanted to leave, they could, but they don't.
Also, the ancient house is different than their current houses because when D goes to visit it at one point he mentions the "opaque door" (153). I think it's interesting that the ancient house has an opaque entrance because it makes it so it's unclear, and clouded in the same way that imagination, or a soul, can cloud judgment and logic.
Language:
It's interesting because now we as the reader are really watching him transform from a loyal, unquestioning member of society, to a radical being that thinks, imagines and dreams. D-503 goes off on these elaborate tirades about these dreams or fantasies, but then he will also express how much he loves the society. He did this when he talked about how happy he was for the wall and being "saved" by the wall from animals on the other side, but then goes to the ancient house. He uses a lot of figurative language, and most of it has to do with nature. He uses a lot of extended metaphors or short metaphors to really get his ideas across. He uses similes a lot too, and when he uses them a lot of times he refers to animals. I haven't figured out yet if they have any animals in the society, but he said, "repulsive and agile as a gorilla" (144).
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