At the beginning of this chapter, while Bernard is trying to get ahold of the Controller, to get permission to bring Linda and John back to London, John fears that they have left without him. John runs to the cabin on the reservation where Lenina and Bernard had been staying. John finds Lenina, on the bed, in a soma coma. He stares at her, with the desire to touch her, and resites Shakespeare. John hears Bernards helicopter and runs away.
Back at the Conditioning Centre, the Director tells Henry that he is going to dismiss Bernard in front of high-caste workers, trying to set an example. He says the Bernard threatens stability, and sacrificing one person for stability is worth ( after all they can produce dozens of new babies by the time he's gone.)
When Lenina and Bernard return home, with Linda and John, Bernard announces infront of all the workers (that were there to see Bernard get dismissed) that John is the Director's child. Linda tells her story, and John falls to his knees and exclaims 'My father!.' The entire crowd bursts into laughter, and the Dircetor runs out of the room, embarassed.
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Chapter Nine.
John tells Bernard and Lenina of the stories he had grown up listening to from his mother. His mother taught him to read using materials that she had brought from the Other place. One day his mother's lover, Pope, brought the entire collection of Shaekspeare's work and John fell in love with all of it. He has always dreamed of going to the Other Place.
Bernard invites John and his mother to accompany them back to the World State, to fulfill his dream. Bernard actually has a different reason for bringing john with him. He wants to expose John as the Director's son and embarass him. When John receives the invitation he says ' O brave new world, that has such people in it.' John also asks Bernard if Lenina is his wife. Bernard laughs and tell him absolutely not, and he still has quite alot to learn about the World State.
Bernard invites John and his mother to accompany them back to the World State, to fulfill his dream. Bernard actually has a different reason for bringing john with him. He wants to expose John as the Director's son and embarass him. When John receives the invitation he says ' O brave new world, that has such people in it.' John also asks Bernard if Lenina is his wife. Bernard laughs and tell him absolutely not, and he still has quite alot to learn about the World State.
Chapter Eight
At the beginning of the chapter, Bernard thinks to himself about being free of soma. Being able to feel pain and desire. He talks to Lenina about this and she acts like he is crazy. After discussing it, she offers him some soma. He refuses but after a while he gives up his want of desire and takes 4 grammes of soma.
Lenina and Bernard take a tour of the reservation and meet a blonde young man,named John, that spoke perfect English. This really surprised both of them and they asked him how he came about living here, because he was so different from everyone else. He told them how his mother, who was from the 'Other Place' had gotten lost on a holiday to the reservation and was saved by the indians who brought her to their village. His father, also from the Other Place, was named Tomakin. Bernard realizes that “Tomakin” is actually Thomas, the Director, but does not tell Lenina about that.
When Bernard and Lenina meet John's mother Linda, Lenina is disgusted by her appearance. She was a wrinkled, over weight woman with missing teeth. Linda explains that something had gone wrong with her contraceptive(birth control) and that was how John was born. She was not allowed to get an abortion in the village, and could not go back home with a child, so she was forced to stay. Linda continued belief in her conditioning and slept with whoever she wanted whenever she wanted. Many of the village women beat her for sleeping with their husbands. John was an outcast in the village because of his mothers premiscuosness.
Lenina and Bernard take a tour of the reservation and meet a blonde young man,named John, that spoke perfect English. This really surprised both of them and they asked him how he came about living here, because he was so different from everyone else. He told them how his mother, who was from the 'Other Place' had gotten lost on a holiday to the reservation and was saved by the indians who brought her to their village. His father, also from the Other Place, was named Tomakin. Bernard realizes that “Tomakin” is actually Thomas, the Director, but does not tell Lenina about that.
When Bernard and Lenina meet John's mother Linda, Lenina is disgusted by her appearance. She was a wrinkled, over weight woman with missing teeth. Linda explains that something had gone wrong with her contraceptive(birth control) and that was how John was born. She was not allowed to get an abortion in the village, and could not go back home with a child, so she was forced to stay. Linda continued belief in her conditioning and slept with whoever she wanted whenever she wanted. Many of the village women beat her for sleeping with their husbands. John was an outcast in the village because of his mothers premiscuosness.
chapter seven
At the beginning of this chapter, the Director is troubled after sharing the story of New Mexico with Bernard. He has a meeting with Bernard where he tells him that he has heard some unpleasing things about his actions outside the work place. He tells him that if things do not cahnge, he will be transferred to a sub-centre in Iceland. The threat actually pleases Bernard. He thinks maybe the people in Iceland will be different, more human, but Bernard realizes that the threat is just a threat and nothing else.
Bernard and Lenina fly to New Mexico for the summer holiday. Though Lenina does not particularly like Bernard, she accompanied him because she only had one other option. Her other option was to spend the holiday in the North Pole, which she found boring. Bernard has to go to the New Mexican reservation and tried to talk Lenina into staying at the hotel in Santa Fe. Though Lenina would much rather stay at the hotel and play golf all day, she refuses to be left behind.
The reservation was made for a preserving a small faction of 'savages.' These savages were people of the old times. They lived as families, with marriage, religion and children ( naturally born.) In the reservation there was still disease, wild animals, no condtioning at all, and love. When the warden of the reservation was explaining this to Lenina, she was amused, imagining the 'savages' as wild animals themselves. the reservation had electric fences, insuring that people that were born in the reservation would also die in the reservation. There was no escaping it.
After leaving the warden, Bernard calls his friend Helhotz back in London, and Helmholtz gives him some bad news. The Director has announced that his threat was not just a threat and that when Bernard returned, he intended to exile him to Iceland. The thoguht of Iceland was no longer a pleasant one for Bernard.
Bernard and Lenina fly to New Mexico for the summer holiday. Though Lenina does not particularly like Bernard, she accompanied him because she only had one other option. Her other option was to spend the holiday in the North Pole, which she found boring. Bernard has to go to the New Mexican reservation and tried to talk Lenina into staying at the hotel in Santa Fe. Though Lenina would much rather stay at the hotel and play golf all day, she refuses to be left behind.
The reservation was made for a preserving a small faction of 'savages.' These savages were people of the old times. They lived as families, with marriage, religion and children ( naturally born.) In the reservation there was still disease, wild animals, no condtioning at all, and love. When the warden of the reservation was explaining this to Lenina, she was amused, imagining the 'savages' as wild animals themselves. the reservation had electric fences, insuring that people that were born in the reservation would also die in the reservation. There was no escaping it.
After leaving the warden, Bernard calls his friend Helhotz back in London, and Helmholtz gives him some bad news. The Director has announced that his threat was not just a threat and that when Bernard returned, he intended to exile him to Iceland. The thoguht of Iceland was no longer a pleasant one for Bernard.
chapter six
So far in the book, there has been only one person to question the way of life that they all live. Bernard is a psychologist at the Conditioning Centre, who is not willing to just except everything that he is told. He wants to be an individual, and be happy in his own way, and for that he is an outcast. Lenina and Bernard go on a date, and while he wants to be alone with her, and talk with her, all she wants to do is go out like everyone else. Bernard also does not take the soma like everyone else. He says that he would rather be himself and miserable then someone else and jolly. Lenina finds Bernard so odd but she makes herself keep dating him because she does not want anyone to find out about Henry, the man that she feels committed to.
The next day Bernard is sent to get a signature for a New Mexico Reservation (I'm not really sure what that means) from the Director. They refer o the people of New Mexico as savages so I think maybe in the United States, at this time, they had not become part of the European's way of life. While he is talking to the Director, the Director begins to tell a story about when he went to New Mexico on a holiday. He talks about the girl that he brought with him, that disappeared, and it still haunts his dreams. He makes it very clear that he had absolutely no emotional attachment to the girl, because that would be wrong.
I'm pretty curious to see if Bernard is going to do anything about the way he feels or if he's just all talk. I think the Director has a little bit of emotion in him too but he is just too afraid to admit it, because he would not want to be considered an outcast.
The next day Bernard is sent to get a signature for a New Mexico Reservation (I'm not really sure what that means) from the Director. They refer o the people of New Mexico as savages so I think maybe in the United States, at this time, they had not become part of the European's way of life. While he is talking to the Director, the Director begins to tell a story about when he went to New Mexico on a holiday. He talks about the girl that he brought with him, that disappeared, and it still haunts his dreams. He makes it very clear that he had absolutely no emotional attachment to the girl, because that would be wrong.
I'm pretty curious to see if Bernard is going to do anything about the way he feels or if he's just all talk. I think the Director has a little bit of emotion in him too but he is just too afraid to admit it, because he would not want to be considered an outcast.
chapter five
In this chapter it starts off with Lenina and the guy she has been dating, Henry, at a golf course. The golf course is an indoor golf course with simulated outdoors. The golf course is segregated so that the lower castes have to golf downstairs and the higher castes golf upstairs. The lower castes also are forced to take trains while the higher castes have their own helicopters. The substance, Soma, is also introduced in this chapter. Soma is some kind of drug that is very common for people to take during dinner and while they are out dancing. The 'Soma Holiday' puts people in some kind of daze, where they are unaware of everything going on around them. Now in London, instead of Big Ben, the clock tower, they have Big Henry (Ford) Instead of the clock dinging nine times to show that it is nine o'clock, a low baritone voice says Ford nine times. In the society in the book, it is mandatory for all women to take birth control.
chapter four
In this chapter it explains a little bit more about Ford. The way they base their year is on the release of Ford's first T model. Similar to our BC and AD they have BF and AF ( Before Ford and After Ford) They revised Chrtistianity to the following of Ford by cutting off the top of every cross to form a T ( T model.) Everyone in this book is very premiscuous, and if you are not it is considered very bad. One of the characters,Lenina, has been seeing a man for 3 monthes, without seeing anyone else, and if anyone found out, she would lose her job. The term 'everyone belongs to everyone' is meant socially and sexually. Everyone flies in helicopters instead of using cars, and for long distance trips they take rockets. If a rocket returns only 5 minutes behind schedule, it is considered to be a ridiculous irritation.
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