8. What ideas about humans, society, life, or science have you formulated as a result of reading this novel?

One of the things that I've learned about life through reading this novel is that I think our lives might revolve around something similar to that in the book in future years. You may think some of the things in the book sound goofy, but you may as well get ready for it now because kids are becoming younger when they have their first boyfriends and such things like that. I think life today is much different from in the book, but there are major similarites between the book and life today leading me to believe that in a few generations our world might turn out like the book. One thing i learned about society is that you can't have everything perfect. You can not create a perfect society no matter how hard you try. You can't create people to do certain jobs or program them to do what you want or act how you want them to act. People are humans, born through the birth process or developed through a bottle, humans make mistakes. Humans are by no means flawless no matter how you create them. For example, one flaw in an assembly line and the whole thing could be disrupted. If you're making a bike and the person assembling the tire pokes a spoke through the tube of the tire, the bike will not work. That ties in to what I've learned about humans through the book. We are not flawless, and you could not make us flawless no matter who tried or how hard they tried.

welppp, thats my opinion on that
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10. How is Huxley mocking religion?

In Brave New World, Huxley mocks the Christian religion because the Christian god, is God. Huxley uses Henry Ford as God in the book because he created the Model-T car. He also mocks the Christian religion because Christians use the symbol of the cross, and in the book, they cut the top off of the crosses so that it forms the letter "T." They cut off the top of the cross to form the letter "T" simply because of their "god's" (or Henry Ford's) creation, the Model-T car. Also, they draw T's on their stomach at one point in the book. The Bible, the Christian's book of beliefs, also is being mocked because no one is allowed to read it or believe in anything having to do with the Bible, and people are not encouraged to read it because their God is not our God.

I think I've got it all coveredddd?!

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Many people have been saying this book is weird and/or disturbing, and I agree. However, they're real facts. In the book it says that a boy the age of 7 and a girl one year older were playing "intimately." Yes, we think that it is wrong for them to be doing that, mostly because they aren't mature. However, this could really happen. Like Erica wrote in her blog, younger kids in 3rd and 4th grade are coming home with a new "boyfriend" every other day when they come home from school. Of course, they don't know what a relationship really is, but many have older brothers and sisters and could be learning off of them. If a 3rd grade girl in elementary school has a "boyfriend" and sees her older sister in 10th grade kiss her boyfriend, she might just go and kiss her "boyfriend." From there on, it could go even further, which could lead to mass population just like in the book. Alrightyy well that was rather akwarddd.


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What is satire?

satire- (noun)- 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.


SOURCE: http://www.dictionary.com

Who is Aldous Huxley?

Aldous Huxley, the author of A Brave New World, was born on July 26th, 1894 in Godalming, Surrey, England. Huxley was considered the spiritual father of the Hippie Movement because he was interested in many spiritual subjects. He went to highschool at Hillside and then furthered his education at Eaton College. That is basically who Aldous Huxley is.

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Gene meets his best friend Finny. Gene who is very studious, concerned about maintaining his high class ranking and always striving for the best grades he can get. Finny on the other hand, is the complete opposite. He always gets into trouble but manages to get out of it easily because everyone loves him even though he is quite the rebellious one. Also, Finny is an athletic boy who tries a sport once and can excel in it right away. Together, they created the Super Secret Suicide Summer Society, where they jump out of a tree into the river below them. That is, until one day Finny breaks his leg.

Finny falls out of the tree and Gene claims to have pushed him but Finny thinks this is rediculous talk. Dr. Stanpole tells Finny that he'll never play sports again because of his broken leg, so Finny wants to train Gene to get into the 1944 Olympics because he always wanted to be in them.

I disagree with this idea of Finny's because some people can work really hard and apply themselves as much as possible and still not be as good of an athlete as a person with a natural athletic ability.

Gene and Finny are very dependent on each other and very jealous each other. They also argue very often, and I personally think that the reason they argue so frequently is because they're jealous of each other and they're so different. I believe that you can be dependent on another person to an extent, but once you start living your life basically as them then that is the point where the line should be drawn. Every individual is important to society and contributes to it in some way, so just be yourself!

Well that's all i got for now,
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Reading Assignment Chapters 1-3

1. A number of times in this chapter, he mentions that "fear" is a major part of his school life. In what way could his school life have been filled with fear?
Gene's school, Devon High School, could have been filled with fear mainly because of the war that was going on. Now that he turned 17, anyone who was a senior at Devon could be drafted into war at anytime if they were enlisted.

2. What is implied when he speaks about "how far my convalescence had gone"?
To be completely honest, I don't have a single clue on what this question means.


3. What two specific spots does he seek out to revisit?
Gene specifically goes to revist the site of the tree where the Super Secret Suicide Society used to meet and the lobby so that he can see the steps and how the school now looks preserved and newer compared to what it did when he went to school.

4. What jars the reader in the following stastement, and what is implied? "Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence." What literary term is employed?
Well, I'm a reader and "not even a death by violence" jarred me the most. The statement is implying that nothing lasts becuase trees die, love doensn't last because eventually every person dies and a death by violence obviously doesn't last because someone is dying.

5. What mood is conveyed in the first five and a half pages, and how is this mood reinforced by the description of the day?
The mood conveyed in the first few pages is sort of upsetting, to Gene anways, because he is looking back at the old Devon High School and it isn't EXACTLY how he remembered it. There are coats of varnish on the floors and he thinks that everything looks preserved and like a museum, which is what he didn't want it to be.

6. As the flashback unfolds, how does the mood of the last part of the chapter change?
Gene goes down to the tree and remembers all of the events that occured at the tree in his past and the mood gets sort of happier towards the end of the chapter.

7. Who does it appear will be a major character in this story, besides the narrator, and what do we find out about him in this first chapter?
Finny will be another major character in the story and in the first chapter we find out that he is the opposite of Finny and he rarely gets into trouble.

8. Why does Gene's West Point stride bother Finny?
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9. Why does Finny try to win over mr. Prud'homme?
Gene and Finny are about to get into trouble for missing dinner to go down to the tree but Finny makes an excuse and gets them out of it, so he sort of wins power over Mr. Prud'homme.

10. Which of Finny's character traits "stun[s] people"?
I think the trait of Finny that stuns people the most is how he is such a rebel but manages to never get into trouble and everyone likes him even though he doesn't always make the best choices.

11. On what dramatic note does Ch. 2 end?
It ends on an intense note because Gene almost topples off of the branch and Finny saves him from falling.

12. With what realization does Ch. 3 open?
Chapter 3 opens with Gene's realization that Finny basically just saved his life.

13. Regarding Finny's breaking of the swimming record, why does Gene say, "It mad Finny seems too unusual for -- not friendship, but too unusual for rivalry"?
Even though they're friends, Gene envies almost everything that Finny does because he is so good at sports he just tries it one time and he's good at it. For example, he wanted to try to break the swimming record and he tried it once and beat it.

14. What did Gene do to his own disbelief, and why did he do it?
To his own disbelief, Gene jumps off of the tree limb into the river below.



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