We

"Slowly she lifted my hand up into the light,my shaggy hand, which I so detested.I tried to pull back, but she held on tight.
'your hand...You don't know, there are few who do know, that there are women from here, from the city, who have come to love those others over there. You, too, probably have a drop or two of that sunny forest blood...'" Zamyatin(157)
I found this passage interesting because the author brings D-503's hands up early in the novel and this moment finally brings to the front their purpose. Zamyatin uses careful detail when describing characters. O-90's baby face is brought up early in the novel as well, and it is a baby that causes her to find her way, to leave her society. However D-503 is not as strong as O-90 and his hands help him to find answers, but he is still determined to be a good part of one state. In the first line "into the light, my shaggy hand, which i so detested..." Zamyatin uses commas to make his hands the objects he is detesting but too one can consider the light he detests, and in the end he does not like what is revealed to him, by his hands or the light.
The wall in WE by Zamyatin's wall held in the cleaner more efficient society, and successfully kept the outsiders from getting in. This allowed Zamyatin to portray the government as having total control and keeps many of the characters in the novel hidden from the truth. Getting to the other side of the wall in this (and most other distopia novels) signifies a break in society. This breach allows the author to further the reader's knowledge (at the same time as the character's) about life as it may have once been, and would be without the restrictions of the wall. Zamyatin never allowed his characters to "break" the wall, only go underneath it, which showed early on to the character would never be fully able to break free from his position.

Overall, i loved this book until the last few chapters. I thought that Zamyatin showed the human spirit as weak and I disagree. I REALLY wish that this book had alternate endings because I thinkt hat this book's ending was what ruined my intrest dystopia novels for the year. Way to go Mr. Dr. Benefactor.