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
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