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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