Brave+New+World

$$$$$Brave New World$$$$$$

First Discussion:
 * Everyone is engineered one way with no choice.
 * The embryos are being classified into different social classes and standards
 * The embryos are mutated and brainwashed to understand where they rank compared to others
 * It is stressed to the embryos that you must stick to YOUR social class and that class only
 * No commitment to others; freely have sex to display your lack of commitment
 * Soma was a drug given to society without choice

Second Discussion:
 * Lenina and Benard go on a date. Benard is very anti social and is against free love.
 * Lenina is seeing more than one guy.
 * The author said american youth were too wild and that he didnt like that.
 * Benard was talking to someone and was going to get exiled.

THIRD DISCUSSION:
 * Bernard and Lenina go to an Indian reservation and meet John
 * John is an arian and is not allowed to do indian rituals because his mother, Linda, was practicing rituals from the civilized society
 * Lenina is disgusted with Linda because she gave birth to John and society teaches them not to have children
 * Bernard concludes that John's mother is the woman the director had taken to the reservation 25 years ago
 * Bernard brings Linda and John back to London
 * John is fascinated with Lenina and breaks into her house
 * That's about it, Stripes. I doubt you read this.
 * Hi, it's Stripes and I totally read this. <-- so didn't read this.

fourth discussion:
 * Bernard was going to be released to become an example in front of the caste people.
 * John calls the director "daddy" and the director resigns.
 * Bernard gets to stay and becomes a "big shot".
 * John is called the savage and gets made fun of.
 * Lenina and John go on a date
 * school children make fun of the reservation video because they thought it was strange.

Fifth Discussion
 * Lenina was getting all up Johns grill, and john said he loved her. That goes against socitety, Lenina just wants to hit it and quit it.
 * John wants to stay with her because he loves her.
 * Johns mom was a whore and he didnt want the women he loved to be a whore. So she was called a whore by him and he hits her.
 * John was not being fair becasue he was blaming her for being bad when he was just as bad.
 * This book is a amplified version of how life is today.
 * Linda dies...): it was super creepy due to the fact that they took kids into watch the people die. They brain wash them to be hard
 * John goes crazy and dumps out the soma. This is freedom. Hemholts started to write his own poems, and joins in and starts to throw the stuff too.
 * All Hemholts wants to write.
 * Bernerd freezes and has no idea what to do. Then the 5-0 comes.They sprayed soma at them rioting and they all started to cry and chill out.

sixth discussion
 * they are all in mons office.
 * Mon explains that shakespeare is forbidden because people have to be stupid.
 * helmholts and bernard are going to be exiled, but mon looks at that as a reward.
 * john and mon start arguing about religion.
 * john says that soma is "christianity without tears".
 * bernard and helmholts say that they have to go.
 * john starts to whip himself in a lighthouse.
 * john kicks a reporter in the face so they will respect him and leave him alone which leads to more violence.
 * john refuses to whip himself when he thinks of lenina.
 * john whips lenina.
 * john kills himself.

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