Chapter 8 Brave New World Ideas

• Bernard asks John to explain his life, because Bernard what’s to know how John’s life is. But mainly  because he wants to know how he was born.
• Linda sleeps with married men of the reservation, because she is used it since she would do it outside of the reservation.  Her actions causes the people in the reservation to be mad at her and beat her. John learns about it since he sees the women beating his mom and the children making fun of him. 
• Pope brings “mescal” to Linda which is a strong alcohol, and ends up having lots of sex with her. 
• John doesn’t like Popé because he sleeps with his mom. John just walks out of the house while Pope with his mom. 
• The allusions of Shakespeare in this chapter are by giving quotes and John getting a book from Pope about William Shakespeare. John uses a quote from Shakespeare describing how there’s actually good people in this world who have come  to help people in need referring himself to Bernard since he believes he is helping him out by taking him to the Other Place. When Bernard is just using John  to embarras  the  director. 
• John tells Bernard that he feels alone since he gets rejected but the people in the reservation and he is mostly alone. 
• John wanted to know how it feels to be crucified because since people who get crucified are people who are chosen by the people and get honored, som I believe that’s what John wanted to finally feel accepted even if meant his death. 
• Bernard proposed John the idea to go to London with him, but John  tells him that he will go only if Linda goes along with him. 
• When John asked Bernard if he was married to Lenina and he heard a “no” he was happy again.