Reading Gulliver's Travels

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Chapter 5, 6, & 7: New Adventures

Bernard and Lenina are started a BNW relationship where everything seems to be just a fling. They don't quite understand each other but they get along. I find the Lenina is a sweet person but just can't understand possibilities of what would be abnormal. Bernard, on the other-hand, thinks very abnormally compared to the BNW society; most of the time he is very sad and prefers it that way. He constantly refuses soma pills, which is pretty much a pill that makes you happy.
Image from http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/whipping_post.html

There relationship continues and they travel together to the Savage Reservation in southern North America.  The Savage Reservation is unlike the link I put on the previous blog; it's a village full of pueblos with in a square in the center, this is where sacrifices and other religious events are held. Lenina and Bernard witness one of these sacrifices where a young boy was chosen to be whip until he fell. The purpose of this was to get as much blood from the boy so that it would rain for the village's crops. They then found a women and her son who were suppose to be apart of the NW society.
I predict that these two will come back to the New World and the young man will cause havoc because he hasn't been brainwashed.

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