2BRO2B

="2BR02B" =



= Summary: = = This short Story takes place in a Dystopian world where there is tight Population Control and a cure for ageing. Seems good right? Well not quite, Mr.Wehling who has just had triplets must find volunteers to sacrifice themselves to make a hole in the population. Faced with this dilemma he gets into a conversation about his predicament with a famous doctor and a Clerk from the "Federal Bureau of termination". After the Doctor, known as Dr.Hitz, "Convinces" Mr.Wehling that population control is good, Mr.Wehling promptly takes out a revolver and shoots both the Doctor, the Clerk and then shoots himself. So now there is a 3 person hole in the population, so all the children can live. In the Background a nearby painter, who watches what happens is touched by the event and sees that everybody must die eventually, and calls the department of termination's number 2-B-R-0-2-B. Since the painter pronounces the zero as 'naught' it is pronounced as To Be Or 'naught' To Be = = Summary by Guy Sava. = = = = Setting: Future Dystopian Civilization, Chicago Lying-in Hospital = = ﻿Protagonists: Edward K. Wehling, Jr. = = ﻿Antagonists: The Doctor(Benjamin Hitz), the Clerk(Leora Duncan) and everyone who believes that the poulation should be the same all the time. = = Forms of Technology: X-rays, telephones, Ethical Suicide Studios which is where people go to die = = Main Conflict and Theme(s):﻿ The conflict in this short story is that Mr. Wehling has to decide to kill the triplets or go against the precedent that the population should always be the same. This is an example of man vs society and man vs self. = = A theme from this short story would be why kill innocent young children when they have much to live for than full grown adults who don't have much to live for. = == == Discussion Questions:


 * 1) Why do you think Mr. Wehling chose to kill himself, Dr. Hitz, and Leora Duncan?
 * 2) Why do you think the painter didn't interupt when he witnessed the shootings?
 * 3) Why do the people that are associated with the Federal Bureau of Termination wear purple?

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By: Guy Sava Jacqueline Gorberg Parth Patel