This document discusses a story that takes place over hundreds of years as Earth is colonized. It follows the life of a protagonist on Earth as the Colonists begin killing opposition and taking control. They gene fix children and hover over landmarks like the U.N. building, turning places like China into colonies under domes. The story explores themes of freedom, danger, and who the real enemies are through dialogue and different settings on Earth and the colonized planet.

1. Year One Year One Hundred Year One
Thousand
The Protagonist
The Earth
The People of Earth
Freedom
Language

3.  Who are the real enemies?
• “They are monsters. And so are we.”
 What is the real danger?
 “Evil triumphs when good men do
nothing”

4.  One year that the Colonists have been
here
• They are killing all opposition
• Beginning to gene fix the children
• Hovering over the U.N. building in NewYork
• Turned China into their Colony
 Turned into domes

5.  Why a parade?
 Why use drugs?
 Boy vs Girl
 Freedom?
 “Our planet, know.”

6.  Earth is completely
colonized/terraformed

7.  Three main different settings
• Gives the reader three different stories that all tie
together
 Follows the life of the protagonist
 90% of the story is told through dialogue
• 3rd
limited pov
 Story begins In Media Res (in the middle)
• No exposition or inciting incident, plot begins
during the rising action and follows the rest of the
structure to the resolution

8.  The Significance and Symbolization of
New Year’s Day
• New year, new resolutions, new beginnings
 “I have to go home.”
• Symbolization of home
 Their eyes
• His guilt symbolizes our guilt
 Plants as a nature motif
• We have seen this before-nature wins