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Synopsis Of The Book 'Flatland' By Tori Combs

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Flatland
BY: Tori Combs

Flatland is a book about how a sixteen sided polygon, named Arthur, goes through planes to discover different dimensions and used his knowledge to try and hypothesize about what else could be possible. In part one of the book, he describes how flatland works. When the author, Edwin Abbot (who is represented by Arthur), wrote the book it was in the late 1800s. During this time, there were many differences in how society worked which is represented in the book. For example, the women are said to have less knowledge and are less superior to men. Also in part one, it describes how all the houses are shaped (usually in pentagons), how men and women are shaped, how animals are shaped, and how all the living thigs grow. As the children grow, they are raised to believe what the teachers or their parents say, strictly. Any imagination of other worlds or dimensions is considered crazy talk and rendered silly. In the end of the book, it gets to the point where anyone who speaks of a “third dimension gospel” was to be imprisoned. The rest of part one was just telling more about the background of flatland and how the society …show more content…

Line-land is a place of the first dimension where all points are terminally on one line and each “person” was a segment on that plane. He talked to the king of line-land and tried to explain the second dimension to him. The king refused to believe his philosophy simply because he could not fully understand what Arthur was trying to say to him. Later on in the book, a perfect circle appears in Arthur’s house, which we later figure out is a sphere, and tries to convince Arthur of the third dimension. Just as the king did, Arthur rejected the idea because that’s how he was raised. As the sphere showed him the third dimension and explained the movement “Upward, yet not northward,” it was easier for Arthur to try to comprehend this new

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