Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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;

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