Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Brave New World, Chapter 7, Blog #8

Summary- 1.) A guide takes them the Pueblo where all the savages are. Lenina is grossed out by everything she sees. And Bernard is interested and curious. The rituals remind her of their Solidarity Services. They walk across a precipice that make Lenina feel small. 
2.) They are then taken to see a sacrificial ritual. A man is taken over to a square where there are snakes. Then a man wearing a coyote mask starts to beat him with a whip. A White man then walks up. He said he wishes he would be allowed to participate but he was never allowed to because he was different.   
3.) Then we find out that john is Linda's son, and Linda is the one that the D.H.C. had left on the reservation. So john is the directors son. Linda runs up and hugs Lenina which grosses her out. Linda tells them that she tried to condition John but it never worked. 



Vocab-
Precipice- noun. a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical or overhanging face



Important-
We figure out that the Director's friend wasn't eaten by savages. She gave birth to her and the Director's son John.

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