In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.
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Option b best describes synthesis!
A; it mentions in the second sentence that he hadn't slept two consecutive hours due to dreams. He kept trying to get back to sleep near the end of the story, so that would be the main conflict.
