Flatland Summary (cont.)

After talking to the sphere, the square gets to thinking. He realizes that if there is a Flatland, a Spaceland, and possible a Lineland, that there must be many other dimensional worlds. He brings this theory up to the sphere, but the sphere doesn't understand and is offended, so he returns the square back to Flatland. When back in Flatland, the square has a dream that the sphere has come back to introduce him to another land, Pointland. The square wakes up and really feels strongly about educating other people about all of the other, higher dimensional lands. So he tries to convinve the inhabatants of Flatland of Spaceland's existence. But he gets caught, and imprisoned. But he doesn't give up. He spends the rest of his life trying to explain Spaceland to the other people in jail.

Flatland (cont.)

After dreaming and telling us about Lineland, Square returns to Flatland, where he is visited by a sphere. He is very confused because he has never met a three-dimensional creature. He doesn't understand Shphere until he visits Saceland, Sphere's home land. The sphere visits Flatland every once in a while to tell people in Flatland about Spaceland in hopes that one day all of Flatland will be educated about Spaceland. The people (shapes) of Spaceland can see the people (shapes) of Flatland from their world. While in Spaceland, Square and Sphere see the leaders of Flatland secretly talking about the existence of Spaceland. They secretly know, but don't want the people of Flatland to know. So, whoever is said to know someting about Spaceland, they are either killed or imprisoned.

Flatland Summary (cont.)

Abbott proceeds to tell us about another world, Lineland. This other one- dimensional world, Lineland, is just a thought of the narrator's, who is a square in Flatland, of course. The whole middle section of the book is about Square's imaginative world, and how it is better and more fantastic than Flatland. He dreams he goes to Lineland and tries to convince the ruler that there is another dimension but the monarch doesn't understand. Basically, this whole section of the book tells us what life would be like in such a world like Lineland.