We Journal #1

In the beginning of We, I have found that the author uses some paradoxes. In merely the beginning of the book D-503, the main character, states was was printed in the State Gazette, "If they won't understand that we bring them mathematically infallible happiness, it will be our duty to force them to be happy," (3). First of all, I believe that they rely on  math for every bit of their orderly lives because math will always be 100% (for the most part). That is what is meant by when they say "infallible". And secondly, they will force the alien people to be happy, which is strange. In the act of forcing someone to do something, does not mean that they will be happy for if everybody has their own way of being happy which in a sense does not imply force. 

As I read through I start to notice that Zamyatin uses a lot of alliteration in the text, which is followed by some imagery. Strangely, D-503 looks at the a male and a female which are at his side then suddenly starts talking about something else, "The blessed-blue sky, the tiny baby suns in each badge, faces unclouded by the folly of thought," (7). The author uses this alliteration to prove something that I cannot come to an understanding with but intrigues me. It seems very odd that the main character was explaining in his record of certain events that are occurring, and then you start reading about how there are "tiny baby suns in [a] badge". Next, after he met with I-330, he notices her teeth, "Suddenly she caught herself that sting-smile of white, sharp teeth appeared," (25). Whenever D-503 encounters I-330 he describes her teeth as sharp, white, and occasionally evil. This shows how he knows that she represents chaos in the novel, and a rebel in the eyes of D-503.