As Lenina accepted to go to the Savage Reservation with Bernard they headed to it and found something different. They were disguted to find these new things. The reservation have people that have families and abies are born in their natural way. Bernard and Lenina reacted with opposition and disgust to these changes in society. Being able to see their reaction it gave an insight on how brainwashed the people at the World State are. As they explored the reservation they met John, a young handsome man in an indian dress. Bernard and Lenina find out that John's mother Linda was from the world state and met the Director. They were together and had a child. However, Linda suffered an injury while visiting the reservation and some villagers rescued her and has stayed there ever since. With this unexpected discovery Bernard thinks that he should take John and Linda to the World State to embarrass the Director. When Bernard and Lenina do that John became known as “the savage.” At first, Bernard was praised for this discovery and for being "the savage's" guardian. John later seems to be portrayed as a display to others and Bernard only does it to show his success. John explores the World State and its horrified by its intentions and realized he was being used as an object of display. Lenina is attracted to John and develops feelings for him. John misunderstood her feelings because he wasn't given any background information on the society. He realized that people were unable to live for themselves so he went to a lighthouse in the countryside to isolate himself. He was constantly then ridiculed for his life and way of living. So basically, he was not accepted in any way by this new society. In the end of the book, John is driven crazy by this unreal society to him and ends up killing himself. One aspect I see in society that relates to the book is the isolation and descrimination of people who are different. In today's society anyone who is different is ignored or look down on. Though we are striving to fix this problem, it is still present. Other than that everything is pretty much the opposite. In our society we have unorthodox of many types and in the book unorthodox is a fear that one day might litter their society. I have mixed feelings about this book. I like it, but don’t like it at the same time. It was really interesting to see the difference in society. I would only recommend this book to someone if they wanted to see how the world would be if it weren't like nowadays. It can get weird at times and would definitely understand if someone didn't like it but I think we sometimes need to think about this stuff.
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After being introduced to the way that the Hatchery and Conditioning centre works we are now introduced to different places, a garden to be exact. In the garden there's a large amount of naked children playing with each other running around. The Director is interrupted by the cries of a little boy sitting in the bushes separated from everyone. The director later finds out that the boy is uncomfortable with the erotic play in which the children are expected to participate in. Then the director sends the little boy to see the psychologist. The Director also explains the students that sexual play during childhood and adolescence used to be considered abnormal and immoral, that it wasn't something they would do just out of nowhere. This seems to surprise the student in a very interesting way. As the director talks to the students about the world before a man comes in interrupts. Mustapha Mond comes in and talks to the students. The students are overwhelmed by meeting Mond, the Resident Controller for Western Europe, and one of only ten World Controllers. So, basically the smartest person at the World State. Mond begins to describe life in the time before the World State began its policy of tight control. He talks about the Nine Years War and the biological and chemical involvement in the tense and horrendous war. We also are noted that Henry and Lenina are heading to the changing room to prepare for their "date". However, Bernard Marx, who is known to have an unpleasant reputation, seems to overhear the conversation between Henry and the Assistant about Lenina. Henry tells the Assistant that he should “have her” some time. The conversation disgusts Bernard in some way, even though he's not related to Lenina. While that happens in the men's room Lenina and Fanny Crowne talk about Lenina's relationship status. Fanny is surprised that Lenina is still dating Henry after four months, even though he has other women. She advises Lenina to be more talk to other men. Lenina mentions that Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus hypnopaedia specialist, asked her to to go the Savage Reservation with him. Fanny warns that Bernard has a bad reputation because he's not a normal Alpha. There's apparently a rumor of him, that someone injected alcohol into his bottle when he was a baby. He's different from all Alphas and lacks confidence. However, Lenina finds him charming. When Lenina tells Bernard in front of all coworkers that she accepts his invitation to the Savage Reservation, Bernard becomes shy and embarrassed. He later asks her to discuss with him about it privately. After he leaves, he meets with his friend Helmholtz Watson, who is in the other hand popular and very handsome. But their friendship sparked because of their disaatisfaction of their own jobs and other things. This book reminds me of Fahrenheit 451. It's interesting to see how there's restrictions, like of books, and they don't want people to be reminded of the world and its "dark" past. As we are introduced to different characters and their opinions it's interseting to see their perspective from living in such a world. Some of the characters that brought my attention were Henry and Bernard. We are introduced to Henry Foster in the beginning of the book and we have now found out that he’s a very open Alpha who is committed to this work but doesn’t really know how to handle his relationship with Lenina. He seems to offer Lenina to other workers at the World State, which for me seems to be such a bad thing. He is a perfectly conventional Alpha male, casually discussing Lenina’s body with his coworkers. His success with Lenina, and his casual attitude about it, infuriate the jealous Bernard. In the other hand Bernard is an Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events. His insecurity about his size and status makes him discontented with the World State. The government structure is a little different from ours today, in the way that the government is very involved in child development. All the humans are created by the government and put into certain classes. They prioritize others and some they electrecute. The higher class doesn’t suffer as much and have large roles in the community. Of course there’s some similarities like the advancement of technology and science, and it’s great appliance to our community.
I will comment on Paulina and Jenny’s blog posts. Brave New World Pt. 1The book that I chose to read is called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. This book takes place on earth, specifically in Central London at the year 632 after ford (a.f). The story opens up to a Director giving some students a tour at the Hatchery and Conditioning Center. This centre is a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for a their prepared and fated role in the World State. In this world human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, they use removed ovaries that produce ova that are fertilized in synthetic and incubated in developed bottles. So, through this surgeric removal each fetus produced is assigned to an specific caste. There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, and they all have pre-destined jobs. So, all groups goes through a Bokanovsky process, which is basically cloning, except for Alpha and Beta. The Bokanovky process is a process that shocks eggs with electricity that causes the egg to divide into ninety-six embryos, all identical, that later become human beings. The director goes to different sections of the factory and introduced Henry Foster, and employee at the plant, who explains about the fetuses undergo different treatments depending on their castes. So, different castes have to deal with different things. For example, the students observed how the nurses brought some books and flowers to the Delta babies. Also, they introduce Lenina Crowne to the student who is a nurse and talks about the development of growth. They all crawl to them with such joy and create a positive atmosphere. Then, the babies get an electric shock. After being shocked the nurses bring the flowers and the books the babies turn away from them in terror. Basically, some castes get shocked in order to grow hatred to certain things that the factory chooses. Reading this book has been very interesting. What really caught my attention the most was the use of technology and science and compared it to our society in that aspect nowadays. Our technology is so advanced and it's crazy to see how advanced it's getting, I mean it isn't as advanced as the one in the book, but it can lead to that. I am amazed on how they want certain castes to have specific fears. I've never read something like this and that's why I really am super interested and intrigued. I am excited to see how the castes differentiate. The way the government has a large role in a way that they take control over everything. It's a very thought-provoking book and it makes me think about how I would never like to live in a world like that.
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