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.

Brave New World, Chapter 6, Blog #7

Summary- 1.) Lenina likes Bernard but he is to odd. She decides she would rather go to the Savage reservation with him instead of the North Pole with Benito. Lenina then convinces Bernard to go to a wrestling match. After they fly away and go back to Bernard's where he take Soma tablets. Then they have sex. The next day Bernard tells her that he did not want to have sex with her on the first date. 

2.) Bernard then goes to the Director and wants to get a permit for the Savage Reservation with Lenina. The Director tells him a story about when he took a woman their and she got lost during a storms. The Director then tells him if he doesn't start acting like an Alpha he will be exiled to Iceland. He leaves the office and is proud that the director thought of him as a rebel. 

3.)   Bernard and Lenina go to the Savage Reservation. They get there and they need a signature from the Warden to be able to go on the actual reservation. The Warden then tells Lenina a bunch of random facts about it when Bernard realizes he left the Eau de Cologne scent tap on. He goes to call Helmholtz to get him to turn it off but the Warden keeps talking to Lenina. Bernard finally get a hold of Helmotz and tells him that he is being shipped off to Iceland. After the call Lenina convinces him to take some soma. They then fly off and take place in the Savage dances and rituals.


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Vocab-
Cajolery, noun- persuasion by flattery or promises
Octoroon, noun- a person having one-eighth black ancestry





Importance-
Lenina likes Bernard but only sees his outside appearance, and wishes he wasn't so odd. We learn more about how Bernard is more of an individual.

Vocabulary Quiz- Paragraph.

The magnanimity of Bernard Marx was unlike any other Alpha. It was Axiomatic that he was different than all the other Alphas. He had his own feelings and thought his own thoughts. Living in this world with all the castes made him wonder what other people thought of him. The ignominy of being different than everyone else was tiresome, it almost made him depressed. He was on a walk oneday when he saw a Delta walking by him and he stopped and started ruminating about him. He actually like the khaki shirt he was wearing. Even though somewhere in the back of his head he knew he wasn't supposed to. He kept walking and saw an epsilon walking alone. He wanted to ask him to join him on his wallk but he knew that the Epsilon was intrisically stupid.

Brave New World, Chapter 5, Blog #6

Summary: Part 1
Lenina and Henry finish obstacle golf then fly over to Henry's apartment. They fly over a crematorium. Lenina then remebers walking up as a child and and hearing phrases being told to her. At dinner they have coffee and soma tablets. They then walk to the Westminster Abbey to listen to the band. They then take more soma and go back to Henrys apartment.

Part 2.  
Bernard attends Solitary Services. He finds a seat next to Morgana Rothschild. The President then starts and passes around strawberry ice-cream soma. They get passed around for 12 verses of the hymn. Everyone thought that someone or something is coming except Bernard. One person asked what he thought of the service and he lied and said it was wonderful. In the end, the only thing that he could think of was Morgana's unibrow.

Importance: The way soma changes the mood/individual.

Lit. Terms: Irony, "Bottle of mine, its you I've wanted. Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?.."


Vocab: Majestic, Adj. Grand.
Malthusian Blues



Showing what the people act like in this society.
Part 1- What they Did, raves
Part 2, Meeting/Church type thing.

Brave New World, Chapter 4, Blog #5

Summary- Part 1. Lenina goes up to Bernard in an elevator and talks about there trip to New Mexico. He was embarassed that she was talking about their Sexual life in public. She then wanders off to go and meet Henry. They then fly of in Henrys helicopter and see futuristic London. Benito walks up to Bernard and offers some soma and with out saying anything he Bernard walks away. Then Lenina and Henry were flying in the helicopter and they sees some Gamma Girls and says she is glad she isn't a Gamma.

Part 2. Bernard was walking to his helicopter and thinking about how lenina had asked Henry about their private lives in public. Even thouh she behaved like any other women in the society should have. He then told some Deltas to go push his plane out onto the roof. He wondered if people respect him just because he is a Alpha. He then Flies to the Bureaux of propaganda to see Helmholtz Watson. Helmholtz and Bernard start talking anf think someone is listing at the door.

Importance: Part 1. Who Bernard Marx is, how Marx dosen't fit in,  What the World is.
Part 2. The compare and contrast of two people who dont belong in this world.


Lit. Terms: Allusion: Benito Hoover. - Benito Mussolini- Italin Politician who led national Fascist party and is creditid for being one of the key figures in th creation of Facism.

Vocab.: Ruminating- Verb- To think or meditateRuminating- vb. to think or to meditate

Brave New World, Chapter 3, Blog #4

Summary- The Directer takes the students to the garden were hundreds of naked children are playing sexual games. Then the director explains how back in the Ford's day it was frowned upon for adolecents to be participating in those kinds of activities. Then a shady man comes up, the students don't know who it is. The director then introduces him as Mustaphe Mond, one of the ten World controllers. He then starts to explain history in Ford's day. Then, you see flashes of about five different conversations. Mond is teaching history and how people used to have a mom and dad, and how they live now is more successful. Henry and the Predestinator are talking about Lenina and Fanny. Lenina and Fanny are talking about how Lenina has been seeing Henry and only Henry for four months. Fanny then talks her into going out with Bernard Marx.

Vocab.- Vivparous- ADJ. Used to describe a being that has it's young develop inside the body instead of in an egg.

Lit. Terms- Allusion- Polly Trotsky- (Irony) Leon Trotsky

Brave New World Notes

Brave New World Notes!

Characters
Mustaphe Mond- Mond means world
Polly Trotsky- (Irony) Leon Trotsky
Bernard Marx- Karl Marx
Lenin(a)- (Irony) Valdimir Lenin
Benito Hoover- Benito Mussolini- Italian Politician


Many Allusions to Shakespear
Title come from the Tempest
5 allusions to Romeo and Juliet in future chapters

Themes to Think About
Freedom and Confinement
Isolation
Identity
Spirituality
Suffering

Side Notes
Huxley---> Modernism--->



Chapter 3
Everybody belongs to everyone else- No marriage, date more than one person at a time.
Consumerism- Buy New things get rid of the old ones.
Soma- Drug/ Make you calm/ takes care of everything

They realized that controlling people by violence did not work (thats why there is no violence in this world)
Conversations
1.) Bernard-->Lenina (Henry Foster)
2.) Lenina/Fanny-->Everybody belongs to everybody
3.)Mustapha Mond- DHC
4.)Henry/- Lenina and Fanny


Chapter 4 
Part 1
Importance- Who Bernard Marx is, how Marx dosen't fit in,  What the World is.

Characters: Bernard Marx, Benito Hoover, Lenina, Henry Foster

View Of London
    -Futuristic
Bernard Marx inwardly is not happy
    - He feels inferior due to is hieght
    - Doesn't like the superficial view of "every one belongs to everyone"
    - Doesn't like Soma
    - Seems to dislike people

Part 2
Importance- The compare and contrast of two people who dont belong in this world.

Characters: Helnholtz Watson, Bernard Marx

Helnholtz Watson- B. of Propaganda

Helnholtz/ Bernard- difference
      - Helnholtz
             -Bigger, stronger, faster, Better one of the Alphas
      - Bernard
             - Worst Alpha in Physical appearance
Helnholtz/Bernard- Similar
       - They are both Individuals

Chapter 6

Savage reservation