I think it is absolutely terrible that they shock children. They send them into a field to play with flowers and nice things then shock them to teach them not to like nature. The way the author described it was awful. I also found it weird how they encourage children to have sex, whats the point of children having sex?
Everyone goes to a concert and listens to the "sexophones." Then they go to a party with 400 other couples. The go to a special place after and sit around a table listening to music and drinking soma. Everyone starts getting wild and thinking they hear some greater being coming up the stairs. They all have an Orgy and call it "orgy porgy". Bernard ends up having to have sex with a woman with a unibrow and hates his life while everyone else had a great time. I feel bad for him.
Bernard brings Linda and John back to London. Because he does this he becomes kind of famous and completely changes from who he was. Like fame does to anyone. He writes reports on John and sleeps with a bunch of women and loses one of his close friends, Helmoltz. Lenina starts to think that she likes John and gets really confused. She has no idea he is secretly obsessed with her.
Lenina realizes that she likes John a lot and wants to have sex with him. She shows up where he is living and strips down naked in front of him after he tells her he loves her. She doesn't know what to make of it. John suddenly thinks that she is a whore and doesn't want anything to do with her. I think its almost sad how fast he changes his mind about her, from loving her to get away from me.
Bernard and Lenina go to the wrestling match. Bernard refuses to take soma. I like how grounded he is with the whole thing and doesn't like being under the influence of anything. But he ends up taking the soma and sleeping with Lenina. He regrets it in the morning because he didn't want to have sex with her the first night. Its weird that Bernard wasn't excited about it like most guys would be.
In chapter nine you find out about how out of place Linda is from everyone. Everyone on the reservation is all about marriage and having one person for life and she is used to sleeping with a bunch of people. It is strange to me that in her mind it is okay to hook up with that many people. Her main man Pope though, would come over and get her drunk then sleep with her. John went to stab him while he was sleeping and sadly didn't succeed. I like how John is one of the only people who can read.
Lenina and Bernard went to the Malpais village in New Mexico. All the people were old and had skin diseases. Their teeth were rotting out and I thought it was weird how disgusted Lenina got from all of it and how rude she was. They met a girl named Linda who used to be a Beta and was now fat and old on the reservation. It was weird to find out who she was and how different she was from everyone there.
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