Brave New World Final Project

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BNW Reading Log Chapter 10

Summary : It starts by returning to the center and by describing its layout a little. It also talks about how toddlers contribute and hypnopaedia. It then goes to Henry Foster and the director talking about Bernard on their way to the fertilizing room. When they get in, the director talks to Henry about why its important Bernard goes to Iceland. Then, Bernard comes into the room. The director notices him, beckons him closer, then addresses the whole room. He has a speech about why Bernard is bad for being rebellious, and how he's going to Iceland. Afterward, he asks Bernard if he can show him a reason not to send him to Iceland at that moment. Bernard says he does, and calls Linda into the room. She comes in and keeps asking the director if he remembers her, before bringing up them being parents. The room then erupts into laughter, much to the director's embarassment. When the director keeps ignoring Linda, she calls John in, who kneels in front of the director and calls him father. The room's laughter becomes harder now, to the point where the director leaves the room.

This chapter is important because it has a major rising action. It being that the director meets John and realizes he's a father.

Vocab: Connotation - noun - an idea that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
            Voluptuous - adj - characterized by luxury or sensual pleasure
         

Vocab 4

Superfluous - adj - unnecessary
The group of hikers took a superfluous "shortcut" and ended at a dead end overlooking the sea.

Prodigious - adj -  remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
The prodigious elephant was exposed to radiation and as a result, he was 15 feet tall.

Pallid - adj - pale, typically because of poor health
After the plague hit the town, everyone inside became pallid and unproductive.

Vivacious - adj - attractively lively and animated


Pituitary - noun - the major endocrine gland / something attached to the brain


Viviparous - adj - bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent


Abject - adj - extremely bad


Indefatigable - adj -  persisting tirelessly


Apoplectic - adj - overcome with anger


Ruddy - adj - having a healthy red color
The ruddy apples were loaded into the truck to be transported to the store for they could be bought and devoured.

BNW Reading Log Chapter 9

Summary - It starts with Lenina and Bernard in their rest-house, and Lenina taking six half-gramme tablets of Soma. The next day, Bernard set his plan into motion. He said they have seven hours before Lenina gets back from her soma holiday, and they'll be done far before then. He lands on the roof of the Sante Fe post office and went through the world controller's office. He spoke to two of the Fordship's personal secretaries before speaking with Mustapha Mond. He got the correct paperwork to take John and his mom to London. Meanwhile, as Bernard was showing his paperwork to the warden, John found a way into Bernard's and Lenina's rest house. He played with the zipper on Lenina's shorts, and then put her slippers on. Afterwards, he goes into the room Lenina is sleeping in and watches her. He debates with himself whether he wants to touch her or not, but decides against it. He then dashes outside to meet Bernard at  the helicopter.

This chapter was important because it introduced the inciting event. The inciting event is John being allowed to travel back to London with Bernard.


Allusions - Romeo and Juliet - when John is watching Lenina sleep, he recites Romeo and Juliet

BNW Reading Log Chapter 8

Summary - While in the reserve, Lenina and Bernard witness an old man, who appears aged, diseased, and overall not good. Bernard explains that he is just old, that the people of the Reservation age in a different and more natural way than people in their world do. They see a lot more things unnatural to them: the starving dogs, mothers, and unwashed people. Then, they start to watch a ritual that is meant to please Jesus and Pookong. People started dancing to drums while dressed in beads, feathers, and snakes. Suddenly, a boy and whipper appear. They start to throw snakes around and sprinkle them with corn meal and water. A man on a cross is watching everything happen, the boy still being whipped. Lenina becomes horrified and wants to leave when she sees all the blood. As they start to leave, the crowd disperses as well. Older women come out of their houses, pick up the boy who was whipped and leave again. Bernard is startled and Lenina is surprised when John the Savage appears behind them saying he wanted to be the one to be whipped, but couldn't because his skin was lighter. He mentions the controller is his father, and Bernard rushes for him to tell them more. They follow John to his house, where they meet his mother Linda. Linda is really excited to see civilized people and grabs Lenina, who becomes disgusted, because Linda is rather large and smelly.

Allusions - Jesus - Christianity
                  Pookong - Rain god
                  John - John the baptist, preached the coming of the way in the wilderness, got his head cut                     off
                  Popé - Pope
                   
This chapter made the inciting event come a lot closer. We find out the director's lady is still alive, and is pretty fat. We also find out her and the director are the parents of John the savage, and just have to wait for Bernard to introduce the father and son. John the savage is the protagonist.

Vocab - Goitre - noun - swelling of the neck due to enlargement of the thyroid gland
              Innocuous - adj - not harmful or offensive
              Viscose - noun - a viscous orange-brown solution obtained by treating cellulose with sodium                 hydroxide and carbon disulfide
           

Linda  -->  Lenina

Tomakin (Thomas) --> the director

BNW Reading log Chapter 6 -2 & 3

Summary of part 2 - Bernard goes to the director for a permit to get onto the Savage Reservation. At the request, the director starts to tell the story of him and a previous lady on their trip to the reservation. This allows a brief glimpse of his humanity. He says they were having fun until he woke up one morning and she was gone. Bernard says it must of been a terrible shock and the director returns to being the director again and threatens to send Bernard to Iceland if he kept getting the reports he's been getting about Bernard. Bernard is excited by the threat, thinking that it gave him significance. He then went to Helmholtz who didn't like listening to it because he hated hearing Bernard brag, which he did often.

Summary of part 3 - Lenina and Bernard make it to the Reservation. She says she needs all the amentities the hotel has, and after being asked many times she says she's going to the Reservation. When they arrive, the warden gives a long speech about the Reservation. They sat, listening and not knowing what he was saying. Bernard then realizes he left his Eau De Cologne on.  He asks Helmholts if he'll turn it off, which he says he says he will, but not before he tells Bernard that the director is sending him to Iceland

This chapter was important because it helped build the conflict

Vocab - Brachycephalic - adj - having a relatively broad, short skull
              Inexorably - adj - impossible to stop or prevent
              Fulminated - verb - explode violently

BNW Reading Log Chapter 6 - 1

Summary - In New Mexico, Lenina acts like every other controlled person, while Bernard is more himself. Lenina wants to attend female wrestling matches or play golf while Bernard wants to do something more private: walk and talk. She thinks this is weird and starts to have second thoughts about NM. Bernard stops his helicopter above the water and starts to talk to Lenina about ignoring her conditioning and being her own person. She begs him to stop talking of such blasphemy and starts to cry. He finally makes her happy by fondling her and driving away from the water. When asked of he enjoyed their date, he says they should of waited to sleep together. Lenina tells Fanny that she still likes Bernard but doesn't describe his physical features, only the way they walk.

In this chapter, we see how different Bernard is from everyone else and how independent he is as a human. Because we see that in him, we also see how controlled Lenina is

Vocab - Cajorery - noun - coaxing or flattery intended to persuade someone to do something
             Derisively - adj - expressing contempt or ridicule

BNW Reading Log Chapter 5

Summary - Lenina and Henry get back in his helicopter after playing obstacle golf. Lenina studies the view before asking about the crematory. They discuss how the different social classes feel about everything. Henry actually thinks about it, and for a moment, he appears to see everyone equal - but just for a second - saying everyone ends up the same. They land and wander the Westminster Abbey to listen to the sexophonists and dance. They dance until they hear the voice overhead say goodbye, and Henry brings her back to his apartment.

Vocab learned - Zenith - noun - highest point reached by a celestial object
                          Ambergris - noun - a wax-like substance produced in the Sperm Whale's intestines that is used in perfume manufacturing
                         Perennially - adj - existing for a long / infinite time

BNW Reading Log Chapter 3

Overview - In the park, children are encouraged to take part in erotic play, and they taken for testing if they don't. The touring children are in the park listening to the director talk before Mustapha Mond. He explains history and why the children shouldn't like it. While this goes on, Lenina goes to the bath and speaks to her friend Fanny about her love life. We learn it's frowned upon to stay with just one person in a relationship instead of exploring. Bernard then overhears the assistant predestinator talking with Henry (Lenina's boyfriend) about Lenina. Henry wants to date Lenina but hears Henry tell the predestinator to try her like a piece of meat. It keeps cutting back and forth between the three scenes. While it cuts to Mustapha, he explains more history to the kids and how the dystopia works.

Allusions - Leon Trotsky
                  Karl Marx
                  Lenin

Vocabulary learned - Axiomatic - adj - unquestionable

Mustapha - antagonist

BNW Reading Log Chapter 2

Overview - The tour was brought up to the conditioning room and we learned how babies were conditioned. They are given books and flowers and then get shocked when they go to them to grow a fear of them and keep their distance. The director explained how the system of Hypnopaedia is flawed because people wouldn't remember what they learned. Instead, they made their own system, which teaches children to love their caste and not the others. While the director is explaining their process, he accidently gets too excited and wakes the children.

Vocabulary learned - asafoetida - noun - a fetid resinous gum obtained from the roots of a herbaceous plant
                                  viviparous - adj -  bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body
                                 

BNW Reading Log Chapter 1

Overview - It opens with the director of Hatcheries and Conditioning giving some students a tour of their factory. It's learned humans no longer reproduce, but are instead made. The caste and job the fetus will have is predetermined. 3 of 5 of the castes (gammas, epsilons, and deltas) undergo the Bokanovksy Process, which shocks the embryo to form 96 identical clones. Some babies are also injected with certain immunities so they'll be better at their future jobs, and sometimes conditioned for certain types of weather as well. We got an idea of their society by reading the process of how humans are made now. Also in this world, the people praise Henry Ford as a god because he was the father of mass production

Vocabulary learned - bouillion - noun - a broth made by stewing meat, fish, or vegetables in water
                                  beget - verb - make a child
                                  decant - verb - gradually pour
                                 

Vocab set 4

1) Palliate - to relieve or lessen without curing - verb

2) Confiscate - to seize as forfeited to the public domain - verb

3) Inundate - overwhelmed - verb

4) Deprecate - to express earnest disapproval of - verb

5) Exonerate - to clear / free from guilt or blame - verb

6) Capitulate - to surrender unconditionally - verb

7) Svelte - slender - adj

8) Diurnal - daily - adj

9) Canopy - a covering - noun

10) Patrimony - an estate inherited from one's father or ancestors - noun

George's side effects from malaria were palliated after spending a week at the hospital, but unknown to them, it wasn't fully gone yet.
While traveling through airport security, Jorge's pocket knife was confiscated after being seen while he went through the x-ray.
As the campers left their fire unattended while they went on a hike, the forests were soon inundated with fire, leading to the world's biggest forest fire.
The manager of the McDonalds deprecated the idea of the super sized triple bacon cheeseburger, saying it would cause too much heart attacks.
Since Junior was one the president's best friends, he got exonerated from jail after his case of indecent exposure.
The resistance force capitulated after being encircled by the army and spotting the snipers on the roof tops.
After sneaking into the office, Bob slipped the svelte piece of metal in between the doors of the filing cabinet and forced it open.
Johnny's diurnal routine always ended with him enjoying a chicken nugget meal with a root beer at McDonalds.
The gigantic titanium canopy that stood over the jungle hut protected it from the machine gun fire from the helicopter above.
After George's father died in the revolution, his patrimony consisted of everything the light touched.

Vocab Set #3 Sentences

Caprice - Because of a caprice avalanche, the mountain climbers were trapped in the ice cave in the side of the mountain, living off their last cans of Spam.

Aberration - Joe's aberration from college made it for no one would hire him forcing him to get a job as a cashier in Mc Donalds.

Zealously - The group of priests zealously marched down the street trying to convert everyone to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Fecund - Joe sat up all night for he could shoot the fecund rabbits that were rapidly taking over his farmland.

Callous - Bob's fingers were calloused after sixteen straight hours moving rocks from one side of the field to the other.

Compulsory - In Steve's task, a hat, light, and gloves were compulsory, there was no saying what would happen in the mine.

Vocab Set #3

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The Possibility of Evil and The Lottery Comparison

The theme of these two stories are very similar, it being how people aren't how they appear. In the Possibility of Evil, We think Miss Strangeworth is this innocent old lady and something else is wrong  with the town....Until we see her writing the evil letters. Then, we realize she's the evil in the town. in The Lottery, we think this lottery is for money, until the end. We learn the "winner" of the lottery actually gets stoned to death, and this tradition happens yearly. Maybe the stoning part is why places up North stopped doing after so long...

What Happened Next

LOOK AT WHAT USED TO BE YOUR ROSES.  Miss Strangeworth read it again, then tightly squeezed her eyes shut. Slowly, she walked to her front door, opened it, and walked outside. She did not see her roses, only holes in the ground, it was like they were just dug up and moved. Even the ramblers weren't there. Horrified, she looked at the street saw and a pile of all her roses, stomped into the concrete. Screaming, she ran over and knelt down in the center of the rose pancake. She picked up all she could and shuffled inside, not being seen for the rest of the day.

Two days later, Miss Strangeworth emerged from her house, and went into town to once again do her daily routine. No one talked to her as she walked. She was met only with glares of hate. She looked down and continued walking. Then, she smelled something familiar. Roses. Looking up, she saw a bouquet of roses in the window of the flower shop. Without looking, she started fast walking across the street to the flower shop. When suddenly, she was hit by a car and sent flying. By the time the ambulances arrived, it was too late. Miss Strangeworth was dead.

Motives

Ms. Strangeworth's motivation to spread lies was to keep everyone under her control. She said that it was her town and if someone was trouble, she ought to know about it. Ms. Strangeworth also said how there was so much evil in people, even in a charming little town like hers, and how it was her duty to keep her town alert as long as evil existed unchecked in the world. I think she's using this method to keep control because it keeps people weak by making their heads full of lies or having them not wanting their "secrets" to get out.

There Will Come Soft Rains Routine

It had been 7 months since the family had bought their new smart house. It had watched them and learned their daily routine. It became robotic, everything was done without question.

7:00 A.M. - The alarm echoes through the house, repeating its chant of "tick-tock seven o' clock, time to get up!" The children got up to get ready, and headed downstairs, as did their parents. By the time they got to the table at 7:10, breakfast was already on the table: eight pieces of toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two glasses of milk. As the family ate, the house repeated the date and the day's events three times.

8:00 A.M. - The house chanted the time -8:00- and hurried the children out the house to school and their parents out to work. Doors slammed, shoes squeaked to get on feet. The house was now empty.

9:15 A.M - It was time to clean. An aluminum wedge scraped the leftovers into the sink and flushed them away, it carried the plates over to be cleaned. Tiny robotic mice darted out of warrens in the walls, vacuuming and dusting the whole house, before vanishing back into the walls.

10:15 A.M. - The sprinklers had turned on outside, hitting the west side of the house and the flowers there.

2:35 P.M. - The house went into entertainment mode. Bridge tables sprouted from patio walls, and playing cards fluttered onto pads in a shower of pips. Music played while the house prepared martinis and egg-salad  sandwiches. It was too bad they would only be enjoyed on the weekends, which today was not,

4:00 P.M. - The tables fold back into the walls.

4:30 P.M. - It was the children's hour. The children's walls transformed. Animals manifested all over the walls in many shapes and sizes. The two children sat on the floor and looked around in wonder at the animals. There seemed to be different ones every time.

5:00 P.M. - The bath filled and emptied many times with hot, clear water for everyone in the house. Even the dog had jumped in for a turn.

6:00 - 8:00 P.M - The family sat around the dinner table as, once again, dinner magically appeared in front of them. A cigar had popped out in front of the fireplace for the father to sit and relax for a bit.

9:00 P.M. - The beds have been heated in preparation for the family to finish  the day.

9:15 P.M. - As the family lay in bed, the house asked Mrs.  Mcclennan what poem she would like to finish the day with. As usual, it was from her favorite poet, Sara Teasdale.

7:00 A.M. - The alarm echoes through the house, repeating its chant of "tick-tock seven o' clock, time to get up!" The children got up to get ready, and headed downstairs, as did their parents. By the time they got to the table at 7:10, breakfast was already on the table: eight pieces of toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two glasses of milk. As the family ate, the house repeated the date and the day's events three times.

Imagery

Five examples of imagery

1-....all the branches filled with invisible snow

2-imagine himself upon the centre of a plain, a wintry, Arizona desert with no house in a thousand miles, and only dry river beds

3- ...of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction

4- the street was silent and long and empty , with only his shadow moving

5-....sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar

Five examples of figurative language

1-tomb-like buildings

2-There was a good crystal frost in the air; it cut the nose and made the lungs blaze like a christmas tree

3-sudden grey phantoms seemed to manifest upon inner room walls...

4-....where the people sat like the dead, the grey or multicolored lights touching their faces

5-....not unlike a night moth....

Vocabulary #2

Doctrine- a particular principle - noun

Heritage- something that comes/belongs to someone by reason of birth - noun

Commiserate- to feel/express sorrow or misery - verb

Indomitable- cannot be subdued or overcome - adj

Rudimentary- primitive - adj

Savoring- quality that affects smell or taste - noun

Voluble- characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words - adj

Wizened- withered/shriveled - adj

Fusillade- a continuous discharge of firearms - noun

Maladroit- unskillful or awkward - adj


The mall doctrine stated that any kids under the age of 10 left unattended will be taken and sold to the circus.

Due to Charlie's heritage, he would one day be the king of Candy Mountain.

Jack commiserated as he climbed the hill to see his village in flames from a dragon.

The indomitable sea horse had killed many sea monkeys while they tried to tame him.

The rudimentary stone spear in the museum was said to be used to kill the world's largest t-rex long ago in a place far, far away.

Jack was savoring the smell of the double chocolate fudge cake, but couldn't eat it because he was dieting.

Voluble Richard would argue and carry on about anything and everything that popped into his head.

The wizened old man would rub gallons of lotion all over his body daily in an unsuccessful attempt to reduce his thousands of wrinkles.

Harrison Bergerson What Happened Next

The next day, Hazel and George were back, sitting on the couch. When all of a sudden, George stood up, and looked around confused.

"Whats wrong?" Hazel asked him.

"It's...It's been a full minute and i haven't heard any noises...." he said quietly. He walked over to his door and took a step outside. There was a crowd of people standing at the end of the street in front of two trucks of H-G Men. George didn't move toward them, he stood at his door and listened to the men speak on their megaphones.

"Everyone get on the ground, or we WILL open fire! Now!" he had overheard them say and crouched down outside his door trying to stay out of sight.

"How long until the computers are back online? They're getting rowdy!" he heard the men yell to each other. The computers in charge of all the handicaps must be down....George thought to himself. Suddenly he fell to the ground, holding his temple. While writhing on the ground, he looked between his fingers and saw the H-G Men get into their trucks and start to drive away. The crowd had either dispersed or fallen to the ground too. The computers were back online. George went back inside.

"What was it, George?" Hazel asked George, "What was all the ruckus?" she asked, not moving her eyes from the T.V

"I don't remember," George said, going over to join his wife on the couch.

Vocab. in Context

1.) D
2.) D
3.) B
4.) A
5.) D
6.) B

Harrison Bergerson Comprehension

1-The government doesn't handicap Hazel because she's "average"

2-The Government is looking for Harrison because he's very smart, athletic, and good looking, running around without handicaps after escaping jail

3-The Handicapper General shoots Harrison and his empress with a double barrel shotgun when they're dancing and jumping around

4-Because George wasn't at the couch, so he didn't see it, and Hazel forgot what she had seen because of her "average" intelligence

5-The main conflict in the story is society, and how the trying to make everyone equal is making the world worse. It's resolved when Diana shoots Harrison and the empress and forces everyone to put their handicaps back in.

6-The climax of the story is Harrison going into the dance studios, selecting an empress, and removing their handicaps

7-The society in the story is not a very good one. People think they're equal, but you can't make everyone equal but covering them in weights, giving them speech impediments, or making them unable to think. It's normal to not be fast, for no woman to be prettier than another, all news reporters to have speech troubles, and all that matters is that people try their best on what they're trying to do.

8-He's trying to say that making everyone equal would be bad. The world wouldn't progress, no one will be able to focus for more than 20sec, and it feels like the world is a big prison. I agree because in the story, the world seems like a dark place.

9- Harrison becomes emperor --> He removes the handicaps from everyone --> the world goes back to the dark ages because everyone's competing I think it could be better, but for only for a while before everyone starts fighting over competitions

Vocabulary #1

Consternation - A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion - noun

Cower - To crouch, as in fear or shame - verb

Neutralize - To make something ineffective - verb

Synchronize - To cause to indicate the same time - verb

Vigilance - State or quality of being watchful - noun

Wince - To draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow - verb

Manipulate - To manage or influence skillfully - verb

Oblivious - Unaware - adj

Paranoia - Baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others - noun

Silhouette - A dark image outlined against a lighter background ; shadow - noun

Sublime - Impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power - adj

Tremulous - Timid; timorous; fearful - adj



After losing the race by half of a second to his arch enemy, consternation took over Billy after he realized what had happened.

As the murderer walked into the bedroom from the kitchen, he found his next victim cowering in the corner, holding a rolling pin for defense.

By destroying the secret super computer in the white house, Gene had neutralized the threat of the giant robot army.

The synchronized street performers had drawn a crowd of 67 people and made $150 from donations.

Billy Joe winced as the rake hit him in the face after stepping on it.

The ninja's vigilance allowed him to spot the intruders at the gates and gave him time to ring the warning bell.

Using his black magic witchcraft, the scientist manipulated the the street dancers to fake an accident to get more tips for him.

The adventurer was oblivious to the fact he activated a trap and there was a boulder rolling toward him.

Joe's paranoia of the rednecks made him guard his property with barbed wire to keep them out of his beer safe.

The silhouette of Godzilla against the buildings scared everyone in Tokyo.

The magician spoke in a sublime manner as he thought about his trick about mixing heads with a pigeon and himself would actually work.

The tremulous rabbits would always flee to the other side of the cage when their owner tried to pick them up.