Brave New World, Chapter 16, Blog #17

Summary:
Bernard, John and Helmholtz are brought to the Controllers office. Mustapha Mond comes in and asks john questions. They begin talking about how he had the option to go to an island like Bernard and Helmholtz. Bernard immediately starts acting weird. Mustapha sends him to be given soma to calm down. Mustapha tells them what he had to give up to become a World Controller, and the things the society had to give up to become stable. Helmholtz asks Mond if he can be sent to an island with terrible weather. Mustapha then agrees. Then Helmholtz goes to check on Bernard.


Vocab:
Flivver, Noun-Older Slang . an automobile
Chapter Importance:
We discover what the society had to give up to become stable and learn how Mustapha became a World Controller.  


Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
Othello

Brave New World, Chapter 15, Blog #16

Summary:
John left the hospital as delta workers are going out to get their soma rations. John starts telling them that soma is dangerous to their health.  John then tossed soma out the window. Then they started to charge him. Just in time Benrard and helmholtz arrive. Helmholtz helps John, but Bernard wonders whether or not he should help. The police then come with water guns full of soma and a synthetic music player,which has the Voice of reason. Everyone gets gets sprayed with soma and the Deltas start crying and kissing each other. John and Helmholtz then tell the police they are going to cooperate.  Bernard was then caught sneaking out the door. the police tell him he needs go with the police because he is friends with hemholtz and john.


Vocab:

Menacingly, noun,  something that threatens to cause evil, harm

Lit. Terms:
Allusions:
The Tempest -O brave new world that has such people in it


Chapter Importance:

Brave New World, Chapter 14, Blog #15

Summary:
John rushes Park Lane Hospital for the Dying. He goes and sees Linda which is sitting in her bed watching tennis. John then starts thinking about the good memories with his mother. A group of boys surrounded Linda's bed. They asked what was wrong with her and why was she so fat. John hits one child and the nurse gets angry. Linda fallen asleep then started to  mumble something about Popè. John was so angry that all he can think about is all the bad memories about Linda and the Reservation. John tried to shake his mother out of her sleep. Linda realizes its John but in her mind she is on a some-holiday with Popè, and John is interrupting. Linda then starts gasping for air and dies. John ran for the nurse and started to cry. The nurse doesn't understand why John is freaking out. A boy keeps John if Linda is dead.

Vocab:irresolute- adj, doubtfu

Lit. Terms:

 
Chapter Importance:

We start to understand how society views and handles death. 

Brave New World, Chapter 13, Blog #14

Summary:

 Henry Foster invites Lenina to a feely but she says no. Later in the changing room, Lenina tells Fanny that she is confused about John. Fanny tells her to go over to johns and have him decided whether he wants her or not. When the doorbell rings, John hopes it's Helmholtz, but it is Lenina. John trys to tel her that he loves her but onlu nonsensse comes out. She started getting annoyed so she just asked him if he liked her or not, and he said yes. John then starts talking about marigae and it freaks lenina out so she kisses him to shut him up. Lenina walks started undressing and putting her body on to him. he pushed her away and called her a whore. She feel to the ground and John told her to get out before he kills her. Lenina tries to escape to the bathroom, but John slaps her. She locks herself in the bathroom while John  reciting Shakespeare to himself. The phone rings and john runs out of the room. So Lenina runs out and goes home. 

Vocab:

Lupus, noun, a rare form of tuberculosis of the skin, characterized by brownish tubercles that often heals slowly and leave scars.

Lit. Terms:

Allusions:

Tempest

King Lear 

Chapter Importance:

John and Lenina finally express their feelings. But John wants to take their relationship more emotional, but Lenina wants a physical relationship. 

Brave New World, Chapter 12, Blog #13

Summary:

John locked himself in his room because he doesn't want to go to Bernard's party. Bernard tells all of his guests that the Savage won't be making an appearance. Everyone is mad. All the women feel like they had been used and the men were furious because they were tricked into being nice to Bernard. The Arch-Songster is angry that someone would play a joke on him. He tells Bernard to change his ways. The other guest stormed after him. Bernard began to cry but then took four soma tablets and went to bed. The Arch-songster took Lenina back to his place for sex, but Lenina had to take soma to be able to go through. Bernard is back to his self pitty self. John tells him that he prefers this Bernard than the popular Bernard. Helmholtz has decided to take back Bernard. We learn Helmholtz was getting in trouble with the authorities, he was reading some rhymes he made up that are about being alone. Bernard introduces John to Helmholtz and they immediately hit it off. It made Bernard jealous because everything has to be about him. John then starts reading Helmholtz Shakespeare. John, Bernard, and Helmholtz got together frequently. Bernard would say a ridiculous comment very time helmhotlz and john were talking. John was reading  a passage from Romeo and Juliet about Juliet, when Helmholtz bursted out laughing. John locked away his Shakespeare book in a drawer.

Vocab:

Magnanimity, noun- generous in forgiving an insult or injury

Lit. Terms:

Allusions:

Romeo and Juliet

Tempest

Chapter Importance:

Bernard figures out no one really likes him for him. They just liked him for john. And john  and helmholtz start to hit it off. 

Vocabulary Words #5

Lupus,
noun- the Wolf, a southern constellation between Centaurus and Norma.
noun- any of various ulcerous skin diseases, esp. lupus vulgaris or lupus erythematosus.

- As K.C. was eating dirt he got lupus all over his skin. 

Effusive,
adjective-unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve
 - Jade likes to be effusive when she is performing in DDF. 

Surrogate,
noun- a person appointed to act for another

- The surrogate for the acid ended up being apple juice.
 

Peritoneum,
noun- the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.

- My Peritoneum was burning after doing our extreme ab workout.

Viviparous,
adjective- bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes
 


Moribund,
adjective- in a dying state; near death.
 

adjective- on the verge of extinction or termination.

Fulminate,

verb- to explode with a loud noise

Malignant,
adjective- disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or

Palpitating, 
verb- to pulsate; quiver; throb; tremble

Viscose,
adjective- of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive.

Hypnopaedia,
noun- the learning of lessons heard during sleep

Brave New World, Chapter 11, Blog #12

Summary-The Director resigns so Bernard is able to keep his job. Bernard is then appointed to watch John. This makes Bernard popular because everybody from London, wants to see this 'delicious creature'. Bernard is now getting swarmed by girls and there are no more rumors going around about alcohol in his blood surrogate. He talks to Helmholtz about his new found attention but Helmholtz is not impressed.  Bernard is angry Helmholtz lack of spirit, and says they are no longer friends.

Bernard sends in a report to Mond about how John is adapting to the New World. Mustapha Mond is andry with the way Bernard comes off in his letter as arrogant. He decides to plan a punishment that will teach Bernard a lesson.

John is taken to be shown the assembly lines. He is horrified by the site of all the deformed lower caste and runs of to violently vomit. There he repeats the line from The Tempest, 'O brave new world, that has such people in it.' Although this time it has a different meaning then the last time he said it.

Lenina started preparing for her  date with John. He goes out of his way to avoid her but she finds him starring at her. All she knows is that she is very attracted to him. They get to the feely, and see Three Weeks in a Helicopter. Lenina and the rest of the audience loved while John thought it was horrible. They got in the taxicopter and they dropped Lenina off. John told her good night and got back in the helicopter. As the vehicle was in the air John could see Lenina calling up to him. John then goes home and reads Othelo.  

Vocabulary- Infantility- ADJ.  characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.

Lit. Terms- 
-Ariel- Tempest- God of the air
-Aphroditeum Club- Aphrodite- Greek Godess Of Love and Beauty


-"O brave new world..." O brave new world that has such people in it"- Irony
First used it as happiness, looking at Lenina
Now is using it in disgust.


Importance- Bernard is changing because John is now a popular.