![]() ![]() ![]() Through the eyes of Shevek-the-boy, we see Avarres first as a place where parents must leave their infant children to benefit society, which is easier for some than for others. Similarly, the look we get at Urras and Avarres in the first two chapters of The Dispossessed depends on which side Shevek is on- the perspective is different as Shevek-the-man arrives in Urras than Shevek-the-boy learning the values of his society and experimenting with his peers. ![]() “What was inside and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on” (Le Guin 1). Le Guin reminds the readers that like her novel, the wall is all about perspective. This wall is a real, material representation of a symbolic separation between the planets Anarres and Urras. Ursula Le Guin opens her novel with the image of a wall. ![]()
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