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;