We - Journal, Topic A

    "At dawn, I awoke with a pink, strong firmament right in my eyes. All was good, round. This evening O is coming here. I am undoubtedly already healthy. I smiled and fell back asleep.
    The morning bell. I get up and everything is totally different; through the glass of the ceilings and walls, all around, everywhere, it is foggy. Crazy clouds, some heavy, some lighter, are getting closer, and there is already no distinction between the earth and the sky, everything is flying, melting, falling with nothing to catch on to. There are no more buildings: the glass walls have dispersed in the fog, like crystal salts in water. If you look up from the sidewalk, the dark figures of people in buildings are like suspended particles in a delirious, milky solution - some low-hanging and some higher up, and others, higher still, on the tenth floor. And everything is billowing - as though some kind of inaudible fire was raging somewhere." (Zamyatin, 62)

    In this section of the novel D-503 describes the his society, the One State, through the change that he is beginning to go through. Originally, D-503 states that the society is organized with every individual having their own job, but communally working together for the good of the One State. The primary goals of the governing body are to work together through the use of math and science as the main emphasis on the community. D-503 is the Builder of the Integral, which illustrates the importance of his job, due to it being capitalized; although, this contradicts itself with the idea that everyone should conform to the One State.
    This passage indicates the shift of society through the eyes of D-503. Starting off D-503 believes that everything he knows is safe, therefore comforting (ie, his schedule). When D-503 gets up, he sees that the sound structure of the city has changed from how he saw it before. This shift that D-503 sees is far different from the straight, solid buildings of the One State. The One State is supposed to be logical, structural, and schedule-based, due to the strong emphasis on mathematics. As D-503 can not differentiate the sky from the buildings, the haze represents an overbearing of emotions in which D-503 has begun to experience, as well as foreshadowing the new/outside events to come. The society that D-503 has been accustomed to completely changes in his mind as he opens up to thoughts and ideas that the society has kept repressed for thousands of years.