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Submitted by iztayjy on August 4, 2008
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Main concerns and feelings of the narrator
The narrator initially feels torn between her personal morality and that of which is expected of her. The passage shows that she is fully aware she is being indoctrinated but she has difficulty conforming to those values. These values not only threaten to shape her present thinking but also her future. She faces the dilemma of conforming to social expectations or be led by the rationality of her own values. Possible themes: Self vs Society; Non-conformity / Conformity
As she comtemplates thoughts contrary to what she is being taught, she feels a strong sense that she is different from others around her (“I felt I wore my inner doubts on my face…” and “I thought my fate was always meant to be different…”). This sense of difference is contrasted to the perceived pressure for her to conform (All the other students, like me, wore clean uniform. Our feet planted firmly on the floor, our hands folded on our desks.”)
She inwardly rebukes herself for being rebellious (“lazy revolutionary”, “lacked dedication”) and that to be a “good girl”, she “would absorb what I (she) was taught.” Eventually, she could not reconcile both sets of values and ends up with a steely resolve that she “didn’t want to live like a soldier….to begin every day by swearing allegiance to the Party….didn’t want to agree with everything I (she) was told.”
She sees herself socially trapped as she envies the freedom of the birds “flying free against the billowing clouds.”
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