Brave New World Essay

The book of Brave New World stands out for its great way of showing us the readers how people from back then predicted our future. Once we start reading the book we can clearly see how so many things that were written back then by the author are actually happening now these days. For example, the book said that eventually technology is going to end up taking control of us. Which is clearly already happening all over the world, since our kids are now starting to use technology at a young age. What I understood of this book was how people were being created in labs, and being put in a certain category. Everything became so different because everyone was the same and if you managed to stand out and be different there would be consequences to it.

One of the characters that stood out the most for me was John a white guy who was born from a woman and not made in a lab like everyone else from the book. I felt like he was the most outward and inward person from the whole book. He like so many of us had dreams and hopes. As we all know he was raised in a reservation, because his mom Linda decided to have him, and parenthood wasn't a good thing in the world state, so she couldn't decide otherwise. John grew up lonely,and being hated by the people in the reservation, do to his mom sleeping with married men from it. One of Johns major dreams was going to London which one day it became true. When he met this guy Bernard and Linda, whom he thought were his friends. Sadly Bernard wasn't his friend he was just there to "help" him with his big dream about going to London. Bernard's true intentions were to take John to London and embarrass the director, who gave all this talks about how horrible was parenthood and how it shouldn't happen.

John really stood for me, because we can relate to so many things that he goes true. He is unique and doesn't tries to be like everyone else. In the book everyone else is always looking to attention, or taking somma, and having sex. The relationships from the book have no commitment, since both partners can sleep with whomever they want. While John dreams of having a real relationship, and doesn't takes drugs to have sex. Deeply John just wants to be alone and be happy, he doesn't likes all the attention he is getting. When Johns mom Linda, was at the hospital dying he was actually sad feeling pain, and got really sad when his mom ended up calling him his stepdads name before she died. We were able to feel his pain since, his mom never really cared about him and all he wanted was to feel loved from his mom.

Overall, John was the most inward and outward person, because he was different from everyone. He had feelings, and cared for so many things that the people from the world state didn't. We can say he was the most truthful character from the whole book,since he was more like us. sadly his life was cut short after he killed himself. He committed suicide after having remorse of something he did the night before his dead. Which was different for everyone since no one seemed to regret anything that would happen in their lives. Clearly, John stood out in the whole book because he was just different. He wasn't just born from a woman,but he had feelings as well.

Brave New World- Chapter 16 Notes

• John is wanders  around the office examining Mustapha’s things 
• He finds a book called “ My Life and Work” 
• Mustapha talks to John about him not liking civilization 
• John admits he really doesn’t and Bernard gets terrified 
• John Questions Mustapha, while he explains how things that are old like Shakespeare are banned because they are rather beautiful and might be enticing
• John asks Mustapha why they don’t make everyone an Alpha-Double-Plus, but Mustapha says there’s a lot of work to be done
• He says that if alphas has to do this work they would become mad and rebel
• John thinks about the word “science” once again since he has heard it before but has never fully understood what it meant 

Chapter 11 Notes- Brave New World

• After the seen when John called the director father everyone was intrigued to see the "creature"
• Linda in the other hands didn't matter at all, no one even bothered to look at her
• Linda's appearance made people feel sick "positively sick
• John is called the savage now that he is famous
• According to the doctor Soma makes you lose years in time
• John visits the school with Bernard
• at school people don't read because its considered a solitary thing to do
• Lenina talks to Fanny about John being really good looking
•  At the end Lenina admits that she likes John and feels real attractive to him
•  Lenina wonders why John hasn't touched her or have sex with her
• at the end of the chapter on their way back John drops off Lenina , while he is paying the taxicoper Lenina is thinking that maybe John is finally going to be with her 
• but instead John climbs back up onto the taxicoper and sees Lenina's figure get smaller
• while Lenina watches him leave with her mouth open and wiped off a tear
• John gets home back again and takes out a book to read the "Othello"

Book Club Of One

Yes it really helps to talk about the reading with other peoooe who read the book, because they can help clarify something that I probably didn’t understood correctly or misunderstood.  Like this I get a way better understanding of what I read, since I read the whole chapter but I miss  parts about it for the reason that I don’t understand them fully. To be honest there was a time that I didnt read one of the chapters and the following day when we came back to class and Dr.Preston  went over it with the class and everyone was agreeing.I felt so dumb with myself for not reading the chapter. It honestly felt so bad, I felt lost and definitely it made me not want to do the same thing. So now I read the chapters so I can understand what’s going on and don’t feel dumb like that day.

ENDGAME

I want to get everything done  and prove myself that I’m capable of doing everything I propose myself. I know that so far I’ve been kinda off on my things but it’s due to the stress I’m having right now with all the testing going on and projects for other classes. But before this course ends I really want to make the most of it and accomplish what I want. This class has thought me really good things  since we get treated more like adults. Since we have time to work on our own but we manage not to make the best out of it when we should. Anyways I really want to end the school year strong and happy with myself knowing I accomplished everything I had to.

Chapter 10 Notes- Brave New World

• Everything starts off in London 
• John and Linda made it to London 
• The director doesn’t knows what’s going to happen 
• Bernard calls up Linda and the director looked at her disgusted and so did she 
• Linda tells the director that they had a baby 
• John enters the room and calls the director father 
• The director got made fun of after they found out he was a dad 
• They saw the director differently since he was the one who would talk to them about not having kids 

Chapter 9 Notes- Brave New World

Lenina felt herself entitled, after a day of queerness and horror to a holiday. Once they arrive to the rest-house Lenina takes six tablets of Soma and within 10 minutes of sleep she is completely gone for more than 18 hours. While Bernard flies to Santa Fe to see the world controller for a matter of scientific interest.

• Bernard flies to Santa Fe
•  John and Linda are seen as scientific interest to the world state.
• We start to notice that since John got to London to the Hotel he starts to smell Lenina's luggage
• Lenina keep staking soma but this time she took it three times more
• John sees Lenina sleeping and he feels like touching her but he dares not to
•  When John hears the Helicopter he knows that Bernard is back so he hides