Chapter 6 Summary

Part 1: Lenina is debating on whether or not to go out with Bernard to the Savage Reservation. She figured she'd go just because she can go to the Savage Reservation because not many people get to go the Reservation. Also,we learn that other people do think that Bernard had alcohol in his blood-surrogate. Lenina also tries to get Bernard to other places but he refuses because he doesn't want to go places that has lots of people.
When Lenina and Bernard finally decide to go to the reservation on their way, Bernard makes a stop at the ocean to enjoy it. But Lenina doesn't enjoy it. Bernard is trying to get Lenina open up and enjoy but she just refuses to stay. Eventually, Bernard does what Lenina says and they leave. They get back to Bernard's room where Bernard swallowed four tablets of soma and has sex with Lenina which he doesn't enjoy. Lenina asks Bernard if he had fun. He lies and says he wishes he can feel something more. Lenina thinks to herself that she does like Bernard, but wishes he weren't so odd.

Part 2: Part 2 beginnings with Bernard asking the Director for his signature and initials so Bernard can his approval for the New Mexico Reservation. This leads the Director to tells Bernard about his last trip to the New Mexico Reservation. What happens was he took a girl with he to the reservation and looked at the savages and road on horses and all that. It was close to the Director last day of leave, he lost the girl. Even though he had given up losing to her, he still feels remorse over losing her.He even says "I actually dream about it sometime". (Huxley,97)
The Director realize he actually opens up, so to change the subject he decide to yell at Bernard. Threatening to send Bernard to Iceland. Bernard doesn't take it seriously because he is more confident  because the Director threaten him.

Part 3: Bernard and Lenina arrives at a hotel in Santa Fe. Bernard is planing on heading to the Reservation and Lenina wants to go with him. Bernard is trying to convince her not to go but she still wants to go. When they arrive at the Reservation we're introduced to the Warden, a Alpha-Minus who speaks in a southern accent. While the Warden was talking about the Reservation Bernard remember he left the cologne tap on. Lenina on the other was drugged out so she didn't care what the warden had to say.  The warden explains that there no escape from Reservation because there's a fence surrounding the area and its electrified. He even tries to scare Lenina by saying that "Children still are Born"(Huxley,102) but she's still too drugged out to care.
Bernard tries calling Helmholtz and when he finally gets a hold of Helmholtz, Helmholtz has the worst news for Bernard. The DHC is looking for his replacement. Bernard relieves that the threat was real. Bernard is freaking out and decides to take some soma and forget the pain. Bernard and Lenina get on a plane and fly over New Mexico.Which would be awesome for Bernard but he's to drugged out to care.The chapters end with them heading to the Reservation.

Character Analysis
Lenina; World state girl that follows world state accustoms. She is a Beta Minus who tries to make Bernard stick with his world state accustoms through out the chapter. She does not like him being "different". "He began to talk about a lot of Incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible. ". . . To try the effect of arresting my impulses," she heard him say. The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind. (Haux,93)

Bernard; Alpha Plus who is different and tries to be an individual. Throughout the chapter, Bernard tries to persuade Lenina to think the way he thinks. Bernard is looking for someone that is like him. "I did't want it to end with our going to bed" he said. "Not at once, not on the first day." This shows that Bernard wants something serious, which is against the world state accustoms.

The Warden; "Was a blonde and brachycephalic Alpha Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad shouldered, with a loud blooming voice, very well adopted to the utterance of hypnopaedic wisdom."(Huxley,101) He is kind of grossing out Lenina by talking about natural child birth. He's like a tour guide for the reservation throughout the chapter.

D.H.C; The director is like a narrator because he is telling Bernard a story of his life in this chapter. The D.H.C was similar to Bernard before because he did the same thing 20 years ago. His actions reflect upon Bernard. "It upset me very much at the time." (Huxley,97)

Questions :
1.Lenina mentions a lot of Hypnopaedic phrases throughout the chapter. Why does keep mentioning them?

2. How is the Director in this chapter compared to the Director in the beginning of the book?

3. In first few chapters we learn about what life in the Brave New World is like, but, in chapter six we get a hint of what life in the Savage Reservation is like. What can you predict life is like in the Reservation?

Brave New World Blogger Groups

Below you will find the groups* for the chapter synopsis blogger assignment.

Group 1:  

1. Katherine
2. Ariel
3. Mark
4. Omar

Group 2: 

1. Tony
2. Fany
3. Jackie
4. Kevin

Group 3:

1. Jordy
2. Victor
3. Paola
4. Pedro
5. Emerson

Group 4:

1. Monica
2. Danisse
3. Brianna
4. Ashley
5. Ledesma

Group 5:

1. Bryan
2. Christopher
3. Julio
4. Huthifa
5. Dequan

*Please remember that these groups are subject to change.

Example Group Blog Post 1

Chapter 1

Group 1: Ms. Cahill, Ms. Maffio, & Ms. Stone

Summary:
The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.The year is a.f. 632 (632 years“after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beingsand conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova thatare fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.

The Hatchery destines each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta,and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process, which involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo this dividingprocess, which can weaken the embryos. The Director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its guiding motto: “Community, Identity,Stability.”

The Director goes on to describe Podsnap’s Technique, which speeds up the ripening process of eggs within a single ovary.With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be producedfrom the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years.The average production rate using Podsnap’s Technique is 11,000 brothersand sisters in 150 batches of identical twins.Called over by the Director, Mr. Henry Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the attentive students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.

The Director and Henry Foster continue to explain the processes of the plant to the boys. After fertilization, the embryos travel on a conveyor belt in their bottles for 267 days,the gestation time period for a human fetus. On the last day, theyare “decanted,” or born. The entire process is designed to mimic the conditions within a human womb, including shaking every few meters to familiarize the fetuses with movement. Seventy percent of the female fetuses are sterilized; they are known as “freemartins.”The fetuses undergo different treatments depending on their castes. Oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment ensure the lower intelligence and smaller size of members of the three lower castes. Fetuses destinedfor work in the tropical climate are heat conditioned as embryos; during childhood, they undergo further conditioning to produce adults that are emotionally and physically suited to hot climates. The artificial process, says the Director, aims to make individuals accept and even like “their inescapable social destiny.”

The Director and Henry Foster then introduce Lenina Crowneto the students. She explains that her job is to immunize the fetuses destined for the tropics with vaccinations for typhoid and sleeping sickness. In front of the boys, Henry reminds Lenina of their datefor that afternoon, which the Director finds “charming.” Henry goes onto explain that future rocket-plane engineers are conditioned to live in constant motion, and future chemical workers are conditioned to tolerate toxic chemicals. Henry wants to show the students the conditioning of Alpha Plus Intellectual fetuses, but the Director,looking at his watch, announces that the time is ten to three. He decides there is not enough time to see the Alpha Plus conditioning; he wants to make sure the students get to the Nurseries before the children there have awakened from their naps.

Characters:
In this chapter we are introduced to the DHC (Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning), Henry Foster, and Lenina Crowne.

The DHC
At the onset of the chapter we first meet the DHC who is described as being, "tall and rather thin but upright... [with] a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered... by his full, floridly curved lips" (Huxley, 4). Of course, like the others in the World State, we are unaware of how old this guy really is.

Henry Foster
Mr. Foster, as he is often referred to in this chapter, is described as "a fair-haired, ruddy young man..." (Huxley, 8). He can also be described as quite the expertise in the particular field in which he works at the Hatchery. As the the DHC and passes him with the group of students, he ends up joining as an additional tour guide where he rattles off a number of statistics and figures. It is also important to note that he and Lenina are involved.

Lenina Crowne
In this chapter we don't really learn very much character details about Lenina, except for the fact that she works a the Hatchery and Conditioning Center. We also learn about her appearance when the narrator asserts that, "one could see that, for all the lupus and the purple eyes, she as uncommonly pretty" (Huxley, 16). 

Questions:

1.  Why do you think the World State chose to worship Henry Ford?
2. In this chapter we are introduced to the different groups within the established caste system, as well as  how they are decanted and conditioned. Think about our world today, are there any connections between the caste system groups of Brave New World and the class system groups of our current society? 
3. Why do you think there are so many animal references like "straight from the horses mouth" in Brave New World? How is this ironic?

WELCOME TO OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD

Welcome Period 7 to our new blog! Think of this blog as your own morsel of the world wide web; where you can (as a group) post your collective thoughts, summaries, questions, and reactions to the amazing novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

The purpose of this blog is for you all to be "Brave New World" critics, where you can push each other to dissect the themes, characters, and story plot. Each of you will be assigned to a blogging team (of no more than 3 or 4 people) that will meet weekly in order to complete a particular assignment. By the end of the week, the assignment is to be posted onto this blog by your selected publisher. 

To hold each of you accountable, every member of the class has the responsibility, as audience members of this blog, to post comments, questions, and/or answers to at least two blog posts each week. 

In the coming days, our class will have a more detailed introduction to "Our Brave New World Blogger Project". Until then, enjoy the rest of Brave New World!

Best,

Ms. Cahill & Ms. Stone