He learns that trading between countries is strictly controlled and that everyone is free to move to another country should they want to. Julian’s insomnia disappears after a while and he slowly integrates into the new society. Every person can also enjoy some form or entertainment or another for free. Julian goes with Edith shopping in a distribution center and there he finds that everyone has access to a distribution center, even in the rural areas. Every item is priced according to the amount of effort it takes to make and its demand. The amount of work and the difficulty of the work done by a person depend on that person's skills and capacities, and even those who are not able to work receive the same amount of goods as the person who is in charge of supervising a large group of workers.

Business transactions exist no longer between citizens and every person does the same amount of work. Money exists no longer and every citizen receives the same quantity of goods each year to use. Everyone has the right to be educated no matter their background or family and a person is educated until the age of twenty-one. The doctor tells Julian that the world no longer has a poverty problem because now the state deals with distributing the money and the goods to its citizens. Julian is convinced that he is in the future when the doctor who discovered him, Leete, shows him how the city landscape changed. Julian was discovered by a medic who tried to build a laboratory over the place where Julian’s house used to be. One day however, Julian is unable to wake up and when he does wake up, he finds that he slept from 1887 until 2000.

Despite knowing that he could remain trapped in that state for a long time, Julian still continues to seek the help of a man capable of putting him in a deep sleep. Julian suffers from insomnia and the only way he can sleep is by locking himself in a room in his basement and being hypnotized. Julian is a wealthy man engaged to a beautiful women but he suffers because he sees the inequality around him and realizes that there is nothing he can do. The story begins in the nineteen century, the century when Julian West, the main character and narrator of the story, was born. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

Looking backward 2000 1887