Pox Party

After reading this book, I'm not sure how it correlates with the main theme of this class, "mad doctors". This story is like nothing we have read before. The people don't have names, but rather, numbers to be identified by. This people are given private tutors, fancy white head dresses, and taught about the privileged life. Why does Octavian and his mother have names and not numbers? The boy seems to idolize his mother and worship the ground she walks on. Octavian's mother is a work of art. She poses for portraits and drawings all of the time. The mother tries to protect her son after he gets scolded from 03-01 and when she does, he simply says "let us say rather - that he belongs to all of us."  Who is this boys father? Does his mother have any say in raising her own son? I noticed during this reading that these people seems to experiment on animals instead of humans. This is different from all of our other readings. Octavian discusses a memory when he found a dog named Cloud lying in a shed unmoved. He remembers feeling no emotions over the still dog. Was he raised to not feel sadness or fear?