We #1

Motifs
So far in We there is a motif of colors, mostly pink and blue. The main character D-503 uses the colors when describing O and D. O is a female and they have a close relationship, he uses pink to describe her and I think this is because she is a female. R on the other hand is his poetic male friend and blue is associated with him because it highlights the fact that he is male. D-503 says things like, "Yes marvelous." O-90 smiled rosily at me, and also, "I came out and immediatley saw O on the corner-all pink with pleasure at the meeting." And also "O laughed roundly, rosily." "I tore off the stub-and could not tear myself away from her pink mouth." These quotes are all found within the first third of the book. There also seems to be a  motif of the letter X. The first thing I thought of was that X can be many things, in math of course it's the unknown variable that one must solve for but again it can be anything. D-503 doesn't like the variable X and he expresses this in the following quotations. "But her smile there was that constant, irratating X." "But in the eyes, or in the eyebrows-I could not tell-there was a certain strange, irritating X, which I could not capture, could not define figures." It is clear that D-503 doesn't like when things don't follow logic. The same thing appears when he thinks about the square root of negative 1. This is because it is actually possible to find the square root of negative one but it involves the imagenary number i. He says, "This irrational number had grown into me like something foreign, alien, terrifying. It devoured me-it was impossible to concieve to render harmeless, because it was outside ratio." A couple pages later this quote comes up, "I had to do something to expunge, to drown out that damned square root of negative one." This has to do with the fact that it is an imagenary number. He finds out later that he has an imagination which he considers a disease and thinks he is ill. This leads him to come to the conclusion that he now has a soul which is also a disease.
Setting
So far D-503 makes it clear that everything is made of glass. This includes their apartments and houses so everyone can see everything and it is evident that there is no privacy. The only way one can close their blinds is if they have a "pink slip". This is something you obtain that lets you close your blinds when you are going to have an encounter with the opposite sex. Only then can you shut the blinds. There are also people who are reffered to as Guardians. These people follow everyone and supervise people to assure that everything is in order and no one is out when they are not supposed to be. The book also references the "Two Hundred Years War"  D-503 writes, "I am speaking of the Great Two Hundred Years' War-the war between city and village. The primitive peasants, promted perhaps by religious prejudice, stubbornly clung to their "bread". But in the year 35 before the founding of the One State, our present food, a petroleum product, was developed. True, only 0.2 of the earth's population survived the war." The One state believes that love an hunger rule the world, "Ergo: to conquer the world, man must conquer its rulers." They believe that with the Two Hundred Years' War they were able to conquer hunger but they also admit that they haven't fully conquered love.
Language
The book is writen in first person and has journal entries. Throughout the book the narrator speaks in a mathematical way. He says things like, "This function of man's highest faculty, his reson, consists precisely of the continuous limitation of infinity, the breaking up of infinity into convenient, easily digestible portions-differentials. This is precisely what lends my field, mathematics, its devine beauty. D-503 never forgets about the reader and usually in the beggining he realizes that he might have not explained the entry before in a way that his reader can understand so he clarifies things. He also uses things that would help the reader understand whats going on. Like the concept of a family. He said it was like a triangle and explained it. "And yet, he, I, and O-we are a triangle nonetheless. To put it in the language of our ancestors (perhaps, my planetary readers, this language is more comprehensible to you), we are a family. And it is so good occasionally, if only briefly, to relaz, to rest to enclose yourself in a simple, strong triangle from all that..." Since it is told from D-503 point of view we are able to see the internal conflict that arises when he meets I-330.