Death of Justina

"You see you live in a B zone - two acre lots, no commercial enterprises."
P. 547

This quote demonstrates the strangness of the towns' restrictions. The zones are fairly mysterious throughout the story but you can disern that certain things are not allowed in zones. Moses feels that this is ridiculous. This quote demonstrates how odd this seems and it is tied to when he says that if you are to lie you must to it wildly. These zones are a wild fiction but seem a part of life to Moses.

"The cans and boxes were all bare. The frozen-food bins were full of brown parcels, but they were such odd shapes that you couldn't tlel if they contained a frozen turkey or a Chinese dinner."
Page 549

This quote comes as Moses is describing his dream. In the dream he is shopping in an American theme outfit among a variety of people. He is in a grocery store in which nothing is labeled or dicernable. All the food items are generic. To me, this is comparable to the structure of the society in which Moses lives. The area is divided into zones and in each zone certain things are not allowed. In the list of banned activities most are common in the real world, such as death. However, the society is so blindly organized it is difficult to get around the ridiculous rules. The uniformitey of the town and zones is similar to the bare cans and boxes in that neither are functional.