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=== **History info. for the book** : "Henry Ford is the man on which the entire World State's system and religion is based on. His mass production of the Model-T led to the idea of mass-produced people." This answers the question people have on why they refer to it as the time of the Ford. ===

Themes-
===Theme: The theme of Brave New World in not the advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human individuals. ===

====**__*Chapter 1__—The main points I got from chapter one would be that the Director showed the students around the various rooms of the laboratory. My only question was why does the Director automatically favor Mr. Foster? I understand Foster is intelligent and understands science very well but I wonder if there is something else between the two. (Steph)**==== ===Chapter 1: I don't understand why they would want to make everyone the same. Yes, they believe social stability is important but how can they make every human being exactly the same with no flaws. ===

__*Chapter 2__—I wanted to know why they were shocking babies.? I understood that this lab is experimenting with children and their minds and how they learn/work. (Steph)
=== Chapters 1&2- The hatchery is for humans. They are shaping them the way they want them (playing God). They make the women sterile because if one of them were to become pregnent there is a chance it could move up threw the cast system. Which is something the goverment doesn't want, they want to be in control at all times. (Cassie) === === I think that they were refering to the fact that they babies were all alike and that it was shocking to see babies that were either really really smart or really dumb. I mean, if you think about it if you walked into a facility where you see all these babies and all the technologies then i feel that it would be shocking. ===

Why is it ok for the children to particapate in erotic play but pornographic for anyone to use the terms mother or father? (Cassie)
=== I Had a question about this too. I just thought that it was odd that they were suppose to be naked and not repress their sexual behavior but they dont really even have husbands or wives and they aren't allowed to reproduce. It just seems odd. (Brandi) ===

I think that it is normal because the DHC doesn't want the women or men to belong to one person. (Blaine )
=== Why is Bernard so much difrent from all the other alphas? How is he aloud to be diffrent from all the others wouldn't they have adminstered some type of shock therapy on him when he was young to? (Cassie) ===

Cassie, I had the same question! Why is Lenina always wanting Bernard to take soma? Does it turn him on ot something? (Jocelyn)
===** I too have this same question. I Looked up the definition for soma and i don't really know if it helped me or not. It didn't really tell me what it was used for but just where it originated from. We will have to discuss this in class.I posted the definitions i got above under history. **===

I was wondering why Bernard was afraid of the DHC's answer?
=== Chapter 7: I found it interesting that they made John's mother have such distinct characteristics. She was short, fat, wrinkled and had little teeth. Is this suppose to symbolize something? It seems like it should, (Brandi) ===

__*Chapter 7__- Bernard and Lenina saw people in the reservation; they saw natural human life with diseases, poverty, without the influence of science.
=== Lenina is repulsed by Lind a because she is aged. Back in the "City" they don't age. It probally has something to do with all the drugs they take. Because the director would be at least the same age if not older than Linda because John is his sun. (Cassie) ===

*my question was why does john now have (sexual) feelings for lenina? (joce)
=== Somma shortens their life expectancy but I don't believe they can die of an overdose. The director is mad because Bernard humiliated him in front of everyone. John has feelings for Lenina because she is not of his "kind" (the ones he's lived with for his lifetime). (Mikki) ===

__*Chapter 11__- "Savages" are getting changed so that they fit in with the new society: John loves Lenina but she won't be anything more than a "ho.?" (Steph)
=== I find i t really ironic that John and Lenina go to that feely where the black man kidnaps the blond women, and then he goes home and reads Othello which is a work by shakespear about a bi-racial couple. (Cassie) ===

__*Chapter 13__- John loves Lenina but they can't get married because of how society/Lenina is. Lenina likes John but only for sex, nothing serious. (Steph)
=== John wants a relationship, love, he wants something with meaning which is unusaul in this societey because all they do is run around having sex and taking somas. John kinda thinks like a girl. (Cassie) ===

Whether this man John is crazy or not i do agree that God represents everything heroic and good on earth and in society. (Brandi)
=== __*Chapter 18__- John is leaving the society to go live on his own. He is considered damned in the original society for his outburts about the soma. While John is living in the wild, people come to see how he lives; they are fascinated by his living standards. The people want to see John whip himself.? In the end, John hangs himself in the one place he felt calm and peaceful: the lighthouse. ===

__ Class Disscusion: __ __ 3/5-3/9 We read chapters 5-16 and did summaries and questions during class. __ __ 3/12/12 We talked about the death/suicide of the main character. __ __ 3/13/12 We finished our final project and dissucssed the new boo ____ k. __