Brief Summary Of The Short Story 'Twobr02b'

2BR02B was a short story about the future, and how there was no such thing as old age, and all diseases were conquered. There was no poverty, no wars, no asylums and no prisons. The most important or strange part of it all was that the United States was stabilized at 40,000 people. You may be thinking that it would be nice to have every disease conquered, and for everyone to live forever. But.. what if you heard someone, or yourself had to volunteer to die in order for a new life to be born? The main character, Edward K. Wehling, Jr’s wife gave birth to three triplets. He was told he had to pick one of the babies to keep alive, because he only had one volunteer; the grandfather. The Dr, and Leora Duncan really liked the idea of population control, …show more content…
The fact that in the story they had to find someone to die in order to have a baby is a huge sacrifice and decision for both the volunteer and family with the baby. Nobody wants to have to make that decision but because the government is controlling them, so they have to make sacrifices. The idea of sacrifice does not always mean you have to do something including murder; like Edward K Wehling Jr did. The painter at the end of the story called the number 2BR02B, and the hostess says, “‘Thank you, sir, said the hostess. Your city thanks you; your country thanks you; your planet thanks you. But the deepest thanks of all is from your future generations’” This quote itself ties the whole theme together. It's showing that he's calling to be terminated because he doesn't see a point in living on a planet that has all those problems and stuff going on, and that caused him to make a decision of calling he did not originally want to make. Of course he made the decision, but the government controlling in this case had a huge influence. Control still has a huge influence on people's decisions today whether people see it or