Brave New World, Chapter 10, Blog #11

Summary-
At the Hatchery, the Director tells Henry that he plans to dismiss Bernard. He sayed that Bernard’s behavior threatens stability. When Bernard arrive the Director told Bernard that he is being transferred to Iceland. But then Bernard showed Linda and john. Linda accuses the Director of making her have a baby. John fell to the ground and said My father! The workers break out into laughter then the Director ran from the room.

Lit. Terms-


Vocabulary- Ignominy, noun,  Dishonor or disgrace

Importance- It is Johns first experience in the new world.

Brave New World, Chapter 9, Blog #10

Summary- Lenina felt that she was entitled to an absolute holiday. As soon as they got back to the rest house and she took 6 half-gramme soma tablets and laid on her bed. Bernard then flew to Sante Fe to call Mustaphe Mond about having John and Linda in this new world. Mond agrees but wants Bernard to go to the Warden about the papers that will release them into his care. Mean while John breaks into Leninas room and goes through her stuff. Bernards Helicopter arrives but John is able to run away.


Lit. Terms- "Her eyes, her hair, her check, her gait, her voice;"  - Allusion to Romeo and Juliet


Vocabulary- Gait- Noun.  Manner of walking or running; bearing

Importance-  Bernard is going to use Linda and John as blackmail to be able to keep his job. And Mustapha Mond wants to use Linda and john to show everyone why you should stay in the new world.

Brave New World, Chapter 8, Blog #9

Summary:
Bernard is wonders about John's life so John tells him his life story.  His mom slept around, his mom didn't know how to mend clothes, and he had blonde hair. When John finishes his stories, Bernard asks him if he wants to come back to London with them. John said yes but asks if Linda can come. So it is decided that if Bernard can get permission, John and Linda will go back with Bernard and Lenina. John then asks Bernard if Lenin and him are married. Bernard says no which makes John very happy.


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




Importance of Chapter:

We find out what it was like for John to live in the Savage Reservation. We learn that John and Bernard are both outsiders. 

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.