Laborers are implanted with chips that make them obedient and only suited for simple tasks. They are referred to as “eejits.” Eejit is therefore a common insult
the main character is locked up in a small room that used to be a servants' quarter, his captor took away his bed and replaced it with pounds of sawdust. one of the sons pelts him with peas with his peashooter and has bruises and rashes all over his back.