Wednesday

Most of you need to do a little more on your journals. Today we are going to look at chapter 4. Below is an example of a reading log (I have another example that I will give you soon).

First, I want you to spend a few minutes working with yesterdays vocabulary - writing sentences.

 Example of a READING LOG:

1.     This chapter started with about six or seven hundred children running around on the lawn playing sexual game. The D.H.C say the types of game they were playing and thought it was charming. Then a little girl and boy were playing and the boy didn’t want to play the sexual games and so he was sent to Assistant Superintendent of Psychology. The D.H.C. was walking around and talking to students about how things worked and a little history about how life used to be. They talked about how children having sex used to be abnormal and they were disgusted with the thought of waiting until maybe the age of twenty. Then we met Mustapha Mond, one of the ten controllers of Western Europe. Then, the D.H.C went on to tell all of the students that history was bunk. Then Bernard Marx talked about how life used to be and it scared the Students. Then we were in the locker room with Lenina and Fanny and they were talking about how Lenina has only been who one man in the past four months and how she was going to go after Bernard even though he has a reputation. The rest of the chapter goes from conversation to conversation and Mustapha goes over history, there are blurbs of conditioning, and Lenina and Fanny talk about clothes.

2.     This chapter is important because is showing more about how this society works and is giving the reader more information about life there. Like in our world, it is normal to have one steady partner and be totally exclusive and have families, but in that world, everyone belongs to everyone else. It also gave us more information about the characters and introduced some of the new ones. Like we met Mustapha Mond, who is one of the ten controllers of West Europe. We also met Lenina Crowne, Fanny, and Bernard Marx. Bernard Marx is known to be an outsider with in the society. He prefers to be alone and doesn’t like to take part in regular activities that people in his social status. Lenina Crowne, from what I gather, is sort of a shy person and liked to fallow the rules, but she didn’t.

3.     Literary Elements

a.      Allusions-

                  i.     Polly Trotsky –

                 ii.     Mustapha Mond –

               iii.      Henry Foster-

               iv.      Lenina Crowne-

                 v.     Bernard Marx-

b.     Personifications

                i.     “The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopter.”

              ii.     “…Conveyors crept forward…”

c.      Ironies

                  i.     Having six or seven hundred children run around naked and play sexual games with each other is totally normal and thought of as charming.

                 ii.     Games that children played had to be complex

               iii.     Being exclusive with someone is wrong, and everyone belongs to everyone else.

4.     New words

a.     Rudimentary- Adj. involving or limited to basic principles.

b.     Surreptitious- Adj. kept secret, esp. because it would not be approved of.

c.      Compulsory- Adj. required by law or a rule; obligatory

d.     Promiscuously- Adv. derogatory (of a person) having many sexual relationships

e.     Incongruous- Adj. not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something

f.      Truculently- Adv. eager or quick to argue or fight

g.     Conventionality- N. based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed

h.     Pneumatic- Adj. containing or operated by air or gas under pressure.

i.       Insurmountable- Adj. too great to be overcome