March Lit Analysis

I've chosen to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I haven't started reading yet, but the title seemed interesting to me. Hopefully the book is just as interesting as the title.

BNW Ch.7

-meet John (son of director)

-his mother is Linda from Director's story

-Lenina is disgusted by Linda

-explains that she used contraceptives but something went wrong

-couldn't get an abortion on the reservation

-ashamed to return home with a baby

-used routines from home (sleeping with any man)

-women in village hated her for doing those things practiced at home

BNW ch.6

-Bernard doesn't want to take soma

-wants to feel like an individual

-eventually takes soma

-he wants to visit the reservation

-director tells of a story of how he went with a girl and she got lost 

-realizes that he's revealed too much personal info.

-Bernard gets threatened to get moved to Iceland

-Lenina and Bernard go to the reservation

-forgets to turn off tap

-calls Helmholtz to turn it off

-tells him they're following through with exile to Iceland

Lit Terms Applied

I feel that our quizzes on these lit terms is very challenging. I'm really good at memorization, but having to recognize these terms in context is really hard for me. It's not that these words themselves are difficult it's just trying to be able to pick them out in a paragraph is hard.

Brave New World Ch.5

Chapter 5
-Lenina and Henry fly over a crematorium
-take somas
-oblivious to the world around them
-remember contraceptives
-solidarity service
-pass around soma and while playing rousing hymns
-orgy porgy
-Bernard feels more isolated

Brave New World ch.4

Chapter 4
-Go down go down (repetition)
-sexual description (simile)
-sexual encounter (extended metaphor)
-looking into distance ( extended metaphor)
-Rook? (rhetorical)
-benito hoover
-size is a universal ideal
-Bernard feels out of place
-gets made fun of for being different
-Helmholtz is similar to Bernard
-curious of other life besides what they're taught

Brave New World 2&3

Chapter 2
-torture the babies to train them
-taught the babies not to like books or flowers
-flowers kept them from transport
-not supposed to like nature
-tried to teach kids in their sleep
-kids repeat what they heard in their sleep
-hypnopaedia to train the kids

Chapter 3
-children involve in erotic play
-Mustapha Mond: on of the top ten world controllers
-young girls take contraceptives
-no families or mothers
-everyone belongs to everyone else
-Lenina has been with Henry for four months
-this is frowned upon
-she needs to be with another man besides just one man
-Lenina has found another man to engage with Bernard Marx
-they don't get old