“Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it is much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.” - Dolores Huerta

Monday, March 2, 2015

Brave New World - Chapter 6

  • Restatement: "Odd, odd, odd, was Lenina's verdict on Bernard Marx."
  • Dogmatic: teachings through hypnopadia > '"A gramme in time saves nine," said Lenina, producing a bright treasure of sleep-taught wisdom."
  • Personification: Bernard wanting to walk and talk, his need to check out the storm, his need to feel more human and more "me" > "the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds."
  • Characterization: (of Bernard) > "More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in a social body. ... what would it be like if I could, if I were free - not enslaved by my conditioning."
  • Characterization: (of Lenina) > '"It's horrible, it's horrible," she kept repeating. "And how can you talk like that about not wanting to be a part of the social body? After all, every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons . . ."'
  • Anecdote: story the Director relates to Bernard about losing and searching for the girl at the New Mexican Reservation
  • Personification: "...the fence marched on and on..."
  •   "...they're perfectly tame; savages wont do you any harm."

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