Brave New World #9 and #10

Summary: Bernard and Lenina go back to their hotel room. Lenina takes three soma, which is more than usual, but she needs it after the time on the reservation. She is out for about 18 hours, giving Bernard enough time to go to Malpais and ask the World Controller for permission to bring Linda and John back to London. His reasoning for this is due to "scientific interest". He goes to speak with the warden and acts like he is friends with Mustapha Mond and that getting this permission is not a big deal. JOhn sneaks to Bernard and Lenina's hotel and thinks no one is there. He breaks in and starts rummaging through Lenina's bag, going crazy over her perfume. He sees her sleeping in bed and marvels over her beauty.

In London everyone at the Hatchery is hard at work, the Director and Henry discuss Bernard. Henry thinks the BErnard does good at his job, but the controller says it is better for one man to suffer than to subject many others to his corruption because of his great intelligence this is his greater social responsibility. Then Bernard shows back up and the Director has everyone stop the work they are doing and listen to him. He makes the announcement to everyone that Bernard is not living his life right, he has "heretical" views on soma, has an unorthodox sex life, and refuses the teachings of Ford. Linda comes running inside and throws herself at the Director saying how he made her have a child, but he denies it. John comes in saying, "My father!" repeatedly. The Director then runs away.

Interpretation: Rising action. Bernard's future is looking bad for a minute there when the director calls him out, but then he turns right around gives him a slap in the face with his revelation of John and Linda. Lenina's taking os all the soma shows yet again, how much control it has over people. It is like the illegal drugs we have today. You take it and are out, which isn't good, but in Brave New World it isn't bad to be out that long.

Literary Devices: Allusions: "My Father!" that is an allusion to God it's also an irony because there is no religion in this world,
Irony: the director scolds Bernard for living an "unFordly" life, then Bernard brings out his love child who is calling him father,

Vocabulary: 
pensive- (adj) dreamily thoughtful; peritoneum- (noun) membrane lining abdominal cavity; ignominy- (noun) disgrace; coquettish- (adj) flirtatious woman

Brave New World #8

Summary: Bernard and John sit outside and talk. John tells him stories of his childhood, which are unlike anything anyone else has to say because he a) had a childhood, and b) wasn't created in a test tube. He remembers a man coming over to be with his mother but she won't with John there, so he his forcibly removed. He has images of being in a room with women making blankets and his mother being upset because they were such savages. Linda sleeps with a man named Pope' who brings over lots of alcohol. Then there was a wedding in the village that made him sad because he was in love with the bride. John feels alone in the village because he can't partake in the village ritual. bernard understands feeling alone in your world because he feels the same way. He asks John to go back to London with him. John is so excited and then Linda wants to come too, but Bernard thinks she's repulsive. then he decides that he can use it to his advantage to bring both savages.

Interpretation: This chapter begins the inciting event, John is going to London. Bernard is probably going to try and use the two savages to get back at the director for trying to locate him to iceland. This chapter shows that John had a childhood, it wasn't great, but it was something that most people in this world didn't have at all, because they were created. Most people when describing their life would be describing almost the same thing as someone else, but not John.

Literary Terms: allusion to Macbeth "...to-morro, to-morro...", an allusion to ROmeo and Juliet- the first sonnet Romes says to Jules,

Vocabulary: lecherous- (adj) excessive sexual desire; precipice- (noun) nearly vertical;

Vocab Words

Superfluous
(adjective)
needless

Prodigious
(adjective)
extraordinary in size

Pallid
(adjective)
pale, faint in color

Vivacious
(adjective)
lively

Pituitary
(adjective)
abnormal size

Viviparous
(adjective)
bring forth living young

Abject
(adjective)
hopeless

Indefatigable
(adjective)
untiring

Apoplectic
(adjective)
intense enough to threaten

Ruddy
(adjective)
healthy red color

Brave New World #7

Summary: Lenina and Bernard are on the reservation. Lenina doesn't like it, the guide is smelly, and "cleanliness is next to Fordliness". She sees an old man and is horrified, Bernard has to explain that they prevent people from getting like that. She has had enough and wants some soma but doesn't have any so she has to face this without it. They witness a whipping ritual where a boy is whipped as he walks steadily around a pit of snakes. Lenina is crying because this is just terrible when a white savage approaches them. He knows about the outside world and can speak to them, thus shocking Bernard. He complains about not being able to partake in the activity because he's white, then he see's Lenina and he's smitten with her. The savage tells a story of how his mother, Linda, came from the outside world and had a child with a man (the director?). This means Linda is the girl who was lost (that foreshadow happens). Linda still has ways of the outside world in her and was mistreated on the reservation for sleeping with all the women's husbands.

My interpretation: This chapter is part of the rising action. This savage is the child of an outsider and not just any outsider, but the Director. I believe that this could also be a potential foreshadow, his mother tried to condition him but it didn't work.

Literary Stuff: allusion- "...that damned spot..."- alludes to Shakespeare, situational irony- sleeping around in the outside worl is okay, but not on the reservation (which is just like our world)

Vocabulary: undulating- (verb) move with wavelike motion; ophthalmia- (noun) eye inflammation; innocuous- (adj) harmless;

Brave New World #6 part 3

Summary: Lenina and Bernard go to the reservation after staying in a very nice hotel that she liked. While on the tour Bernard worries that he left the cologne tap going and that it was going to cost a fortune. Lenina was on some soma and listened absently to the reservation warden talk about it. They keep talking aimlessly and Bernard is worried about the cost of the cologne. He calls Watson to ask him to shut it off, he agrees, and tells Bernard that the director is looking for his replacement. Bernard  is shocked that Iceland would really happen. Lenina convinces him to take 4 soma which is more than is normal. They get in a plane and cross the border, Bernard sleeps. then when he is getting the tour he laughs at the fact that animals never learn to avoid the electric fence, even though he wouldn't normally laugh at something like that.

I think that this chapter kicks of the inciting event, because now Bernard is like "Oh imma be fired!" so everything after this will be the actions building up to the climax. We also see that while he is an individual he can't get through this without soma.

Literary Terms: Irony- on the reservation people still have children the old way, which is the way that people in our world have children, but to them this isn't normal.

fulminated (verb) explode with loud noise

inexorably (adj) unalterable

Brave New World #6 part 2

Summary: Bernard is at the Director's office afraid that he will get into trouble for asking to visit the Mexico Reservation. The Director signs off on it and starts to reminisce about his time spent there, which isn't something that you do in this world, you don't look back at the past. Bernard is curious so he doesn't point out the errors in his way. When the director was there he went with a girl who got lost, but when Bernard expresses sympathy he is quick to say that he wasn't attached to her at all. The Director then begins to scold Bernard and says that if he keeps acting like a child he will send him to Iceland. Bernard isn't scared of this threat, he feels like a rebel and he goes to tell Helmholtz what happened. Watson likes Bernard but hates that he boasts. 

My Interpretation: The section is foreshadowing something that happened a while ago to the Director. Also shows how Watson feels about Bernard that he doesn't really like his boasting and self pity. Could hint at a potential conflict between the two later on. Still the exposition. 

Literary Elements: Foreshadow- the Director's lover that he lost and "didn't have feelings for";

Also him threatening to send Bernard to Iceland; Watson's distaste for Bernard's personality. 

Vocabulary: Abject-adj- bad, unpleasant; Infantile- adj - of or occurring around babies; Indecorous - adj - improper

Brave New World #6 part 1

Summary: Lenina thinks that Bernard is very odd and doesn't know if she should vacation with him, but decides to anyway. They have clearance to go to the Savage Reservation because Bernard is a Alpha-Plus psychologist. They go on the date and Bernard wants to do things like walk around which Lenina finds ridiculous, they go watch some wrestling, then leave. In the helicopter Bernard hovers over the water because he just wants to look, Lenina doesn't like the empty looking ocean. Bernard won't take soma, Lenina thinks he is weird. But then he takes 4 soma at his place and the two sleep together. Bernard regrets it because he wonders what it would be like to delay the impulse.

My interpretation: This chapter is showing Bernard's individuality. In this society it isn't normal to just walk around and think about things. He wants to see what would happen if he delayed the impulse instead of acting on it like a child. He wants to be an adult in a world where everyone is basically a child just acting on their impulses without any thought at all. This is just how much the government controls them.

Literary Elements: I don't know what this would be called but the book says, " A gramme in time saves nine." I'm pretty sure its a stitch in time saves nine...so thats something;  Bernard loves Lenina but needs to take Soma to sleep with her  situational irony, perhaps;

Vocabulary: blasphemy- noun- action concerning God or sacred things; cajolery- noun- persuasion by flattery or promise

Brave New World #5

Summary: Henry and Lenina finish off their date. To return to Henry's they have to walk through the lower caste barracks, and the Crematorium, where we learn that death isn't a big deal in this world. You are burned in the crematorium and then used as phosphorous to make the plants grow. Henry makes the point that everyone is made equal chemically so even the Epsilons are useful. Henry and Lenina have dinner together where they both take a lot of soma and head downtown to listen to music. In Part 2, Bernard has to go to his bi-weekly meeting of "Solidarity Service Day". He goes to a large building and sits around a circular table with 12 spots. When everyone arrives they take soma and sing songs and chant. People think that Henry Ford is coming, Bernard feels absolutely nothing and thinks they are waiting for no one.

My Interpretation: This chapter was full of many allusions pointing to religion, landmarks. it also shows us just how much soma controls these people. They are being controlled by pleasure. You take this magic drug and everything is fine, you don't even care because you can't think. 

Allusions: Big Henry- Big Ben clock in London, The 12 spots- alludes to the 12 disciples 

Vocab: galvanic-adj-energizing; exultant-adj-highly elated; 

ironies: gathering in Westminister Abbey (a church) to do non religious things, pretty much worshiping Ford in this world with no religion

Brave New World #4

Summary: Lenina has just gotten on the lift and Bernard is there. She very publicly discusses that they will be going on a date to New Mexico. Bernard is uncomfortable. And Lenina then leaves for her date with Henry, leaving Bernard with Benito Hoover who says that she is nice to have. Bernard is upset because he wants Lenina to be different but she isn't; she's like everyone else. He is feeling insecure about his caste postition because he is shorter than other people in his group. Mixing with lower classes reminds him that he is an outsider. He goes to visit his friend Helmholtz Watson. Watson has greater intelligence than most Alpha-Pluses so he too feels like an outsider. This is what makes the two men such good friends. They both realize that they are individuals, which is what sets them apart from everyone else.

My Interpretation: This chapter is still setting up the rest of the story. But we see that Watson and Marx are both different from others in their caste. They are individuals. We also see that Bernard is jealous of Watson because he is a lady magnet and he makes it a point of telling him about his date with Lenina to boast. I see that he is insecure in his social standing because he is a little shorter than the others.

Allusions: Benito Hoover- Italian WWII leader
Bernard Marx- Karl Marx communist party founder
Helmholtz Watson- American Psychologist

Irony:  In this world people openly discuss their unfaithfulness- situational irony; Asking someone who their mother is, is a dirty joke, mother is derogatory in this world- situational irony;

Vocabulary: ruminating- verb, to ponder; cordiality- noun, courteous and gracious; waylaid- verb, intercept or attack from ambush;

Vocabulary Words 10/30/14

Palliate 

verb 

to make less severe

Confiscate 

verb  

to seize

Inundate 

verb

to overwhelm

Deprecate 

verb 

express disapproval of

Exonerate 

verb 

free from blame or guilt

Capitulate 

verb 

to surrender unconditionally

Svelte 

adj

elegant and slender

Diurnal adj

of during the day

Canopy 

noun

a cloth hung over something

Patrimony 

noun 

something inherited by a male ancestor

Canopy and Patrimony

In the mossy green forest, towering trees hung over the hikers like a leafy canopy.

The patrimony left to the deceased man's family, was utterly disappointing to them; instead of a nice house they got a shack on a lot by the city dump.

Canopy- noun- cloth or blanket of something draped over an object

Patrimony- noun- estate inherited from one's father or ancestors

Brave New World Journal 3

Summary:  In this chapter it shows us that children are running around naked, engaging in erotic play. In this world it is quite normal. this is an example of situational irony because in today's world that is frowned upon and children are sheltered from such things. History does not matter and they take quotes from Henry Ford and use them out of context. At the end of the day Lenina Crowne is off work and getting ready to go out. She reveals to her friend Fanny that she has been in a relationship with Henry Foster for 4 months. Fanny is shocked and doesn't want her to get in trouble because in this world it is unheard of to be in a long relationship. You "try" different people all the time and are open about being unfaithful. Bernard really likes Lenina and doesn't want to be with other people. Bernard is an allusion to Karl Marx and the communist party and how they rebelled. the same way that he doesn't think the same way as everyone else in the world. This idea of being unfaithful is situational irony because in our world that isn't acceptable.


pneumatic- adj; filled with condensed air...

allusion: to no crosses, they became T's,

The Nine Year's war alluding to the 100 years war?

Foreshadow- when fanny tells Lenina to be careful otherwise she'll get in trouble?

Brave New World chapter 2 journal

Summary: In the second chapter The director shows the students the infant nurseries. They show how they condition babies by showing them books and flowers and then shocking them so they learn not to like those things. Lower Castes used to be conditioned to like nature and pretty things, but since they weren't consuming they had to change that. They explain the process of Hypnopaedia and how you can remember what it is that you learned, but you don't know what you learned. So that system is flawed.

This chapter gives an overview of this world and how it uses consumerism and kinda promotes it. There is Allusion to Henry Ford, who is pretty much god in this world because he came up with mass production, which pretty much paves the way for consumerism.

the word mother is derogatory in this world.

viviparous- adj; bringing forth live young that developed in the parent's body

Svelte and Diurnal

The young, svelte girl stood motionless on the stage after reciting the beautiful eight page poem in front of everyone.

Brittney's diurnal activities at school included slacking off and eating in class.

A Brave New World Reading Log Chapter 1

In chapter 1 the Director is giving students a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. All the students take copious notes on what the director is saying. They will begin work the next day. The director doesn't tell them a lot of information, just tells them what they need to know to do their jobs correctly. What doesn't he want them to know? He explains how they surgically remove eggs from women and then dispose of any bad ones and only fertilize the good ones. They use a system called Bokanovsky's Process, which uses X-rays to make an egg keep dividing, giving us 96 copies of one person. This Hatchery basically takes eggs and then grows them into humans from inside test tubes. Everyone is created with a predestined social class that the creators get to decide. The people are conditioned to love whatever job they are given and the stupid people are born that way because the creators deprive them of oxygen.

I think that this new world is very strange and I want to know what made them think that mass reproduction of people was a good idea and why everyone has to be "bred" a certain a way.

Vocabulary: Bokanovsky's Process = using X-rays to make eggs keep dividing