Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Brave New World Ch.7-10

Chapter 7

  • Pueblo of Malpais
  • The beating of the drums (getting louder and softer)
  • Lenina is disgusted by the way of life of the "savages"
  • The look of old age as in wrinkles/gray hair are surprising to Lenina and Bernard because for them they are not aloud to get to look that way and and preserved from disease and aging
  • No somma at hand for Lenina or Bernard
  • Lenina got lost in the beating of the drums and the music surrounding her
  • There was the beating of a boy over snakes (a type of ritual)
  • Thomas~Head of D.H.C and Linda from New world has a kid that lives in Malpais
  • Linda (John's~The son's mom) tells her story of the difficulty of life
Chapter 8
  • Sad stories/Memories of when Linda and John were first being adapted into the savage world. When Linda didn't want to be called mom and was punished for not knowing their way
  • John knows how to read well because he was taught by Linda but he doesn't understand what he is reading and Linda can not explain.
  • The book of Shakespeare was meaningful to John
  • The words of the book began to give meaning and sense of life to John
  • John told Bernard how alone he felt and how much of an outsider he felt like and Bernard related to Loneliness
  • Bernard is taking Linda and John to the brave new world!
Chapter 9
  • Everything Bernard is doing is in a matter of minutes and at rapid speeds
  • Bernard is getting all the paper work ready to take Linda and John back into his world
  • John is in love with Lenina (her scent, her things, everything)
Chapter 10
  • the director tells Bernard to meet him in the center of the working room and then tells everyone that Bernard is being sent to IceLand for bad behavior
  • The director is not very happy to see Linda and is stunned by the fact he has a son.
  • The people in the room laughed at John for saying my father to the director...and all the director could do was stare wide eyed at John

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