Brave New World-- 8

-Bernard says it’s hard for him to realize that they live as though they were on different planets

-Flashback & Imagery

-he remembers his mother being with a lot of men

-women beating his mother because of it

-his mother blaming him and hitting him, crying afterwards then kissing him

-Linda would talk about the Other Place to John and how it was

-the old men of the pueblo would talk about how the creation of the world they live in

-Linda taught John how to read

-John tried to read a book his mother kept “The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers”

-it took him an hour to read the title alone

-“He threw the book on the floor. "Beastly, beastly book!" he said, and began to cry.”

-when children would make fun of John, he tried harder to read

-Linda wasn’t able to answer his questions

-the old men of the pueblo had different answers to his questions

-after his 12^th birthday he found a new book “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”

-similes “The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried; like old Mitsima saying magic over his feathers…”

-“But now he had these words, these words like drums and singing and magic. These words and the strange, strange story out of which they were taken”

-setting: bedroom / his mother & Pope lying in bed

-Forshadowing: “"I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll kill him," he kept saying. And suddenly there were more

words.

When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage

 Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed …”

-he stabs Pope

-Pope laughs as John runs away crying

-Mitsima tells John that he needs to work the clay now that he’s 15

-John wanted to join the boys that will enter the kiva and come back as men

-they didn’t allow it & said "Not for the son of the she-dog,"

-they threw rocks at him then left him alone outside the pueblo

-Bernard & John talk about being alone lonely and different

-John tells Bernard “I stood against a rock in the middle of the day, in summer, with my arms out, like Jesus on the Cross." "What on earth for?" "I wanted to know what it was like being crucified. Hanging there in the sun …"”

-Bernard asks if John would come back to London with them

-John is happy and asks if Linda could too

-John asked Bernard if he’s married to Lenina

-after saying no Bernard begins to laugh

-John is ready to see the New World "O brave new world," he repeated. "O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."