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1
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separated

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the novel draws attention to the difference between “inside” and “outside”

sanitation: keeping the clean in and the dirty out

2
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Jimmy’s mother’s job

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to keep viruses out of human cells- to put “locks” on the doors of cell walls

3
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Jimmy inside

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the compounds are “inside”- inhabited by wealthy families employed by large research corporations

so Jimmy’s been “inside” his whole life, including in Crake’s airlocked “paradice”

4
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pleebands

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are “outside” - lawlessness, disease and poverty

contagion threatens to break into the body from air or water

5
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outside stands

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for fear, foreignness, dirtiness, poverty and desolation

6
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after the plague

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the inside and outside are no longer separated and the world becomes the outside

so outside stands for the breakdown of order - social, economic and cultural hierarchies are meaningless “outside”