![]() ![]() The enemy that have only been briefly mentioned before are now described as being androids, robots, cybernauts and partially automated humans (261). Redding look down on Connie and the other patients as just guinea pigs for his experiments. ![]() This is in contrast to Connie’s time, where scientists such as Dr. That way there isn’t any one “class” or profession that can consider themselves superior. We also learn that in the future everyone works equally, no one profession is more important than another (261). Everything is reused and recycled, evidenced as when Connie asks Luciente if they throw anything away, she just replies “Thrown away where? The world is round” (234). ![]() While on a walk with Luciente, we get a lot of exposition regarding the way they manage waste in the future. Even though nowadays rape is obviously a serious crime, it seems so pervasive in our society, with issues such as date-rape and slut-shaming used as excuses to justify it. Today cannibalism is seen as barbaric, repulsive, something only the vilest of individuals, possibly with a mental disorder, could commit. During Connie’s conversation with the character Parra, we learn that rape is seen in this society as cannibalism (201). So the book goes on and we learn more about Luciente’s utopian society, and it’s interesting to contrast it to Connie’s time and our own. Title has nothing to do with what I’m writing about, I just liked that line. ![]()
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