WOOL

TAKE A STEP INSIDE....

• Visit the silo
• Look inside Hugh Howey's eyes
• Don't wish to go outside
• You will get what you want...

Inside the Silo is a poem I wrote to represent the symbols that are exhibited inside the story.

Take the wool
Cover your eyes
Shield yourself from truth
Join together
Become united
Bound by the stitches of lies

Take the wool
Wipe away danger
Clean away the darkness
Walk away
Independent
Stuck in a world of illusions

Take the wool
Stuck in a silo
Underground
Away from life
Trapped in a prison
Only meant to prepare
Chamber with a ready missile

Take the wool
Look into the servers
See the world full of dust
Poison that surrounds the outside air
You can dare to go outside
If you just dare to question the truth

Take the wool
Stitch by stitch
The people are gauges by floors
Cast on to a new life
Unravel the truth
Cut away the strands full of lies

Take the wool
Step into the outside world
See the horror
See the truth
Caused by those that lie
Caused by the darkness underground

Take the wool
Nurture the seeds
The silo holds all the people
The silo holds all the seeds
Trapped in the darkness
May light find the people

Take the wool
Bind together the silos
Strand by strand
Looped together
In a seam of lies
Just it hope everything doesn't unravel...

WOOL

Wool

Wool is connected with knitting because yarn can be made out of wool.

"He thought of the billions of people who supposedly lived beneath the starts all those years ago. Nobody could kill so many..." (Howey 451).

CLEANING

Cleaning

This is a symbol to the story because it deals with the characters having to wipe away the lies they thought were true.

"He used the second wool pad and polished the grime off the final lens..."(Howey 36).

SILO

Silo

The silo is a symbol inside the story by representing holding people until needed.

"... they'd inherited a crooked game ... and almost everyone kept ignorant and locked up..." (Howey 421).

KNITTING

Knitting

Knitting is the main symbol inside the book. Every title is a knitting turn that has to do with the plot. The Unraveling was when the uprising started.

Knitting

"... She always chose carefully, for proper gauge was critical. Too small a needle,and the knitting would prove difficult, the resulting sweater too tight and restricting. Too large a needle on the other hand, and it would create a garment full of large holes..." (Howey 43).

OUTSIDE WORLD

Outside World

The outside world was shown to be glum to keep the people outside. When outside, the world looked clean, but it was an illusion created to give false hope.

Outside World

"... like the false grays and browns the program must use to hide the green field and blue sky..." (Howey 34).

Outside World

"The world around him had gone brown. Brown grass and gray skies. No green. No blue. No life..." (Howey 39).

SEEDS

Seeds

The characters inside the silo are seeds. Seeds are stored away just like the characters.

Seeds

"A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was too late to acknowledge it lest it poison or change him, began to sprout..." (Howey 224).

Wool is a story full of many symbols. The five titles are Wool, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling and The Stranded. All of the titles have knitting context to them.

WORK CITED

• Pictures are provided by the program creator, Haiku
• Howey, Hugh. Wool Omnibus Edition. 2012. Print