poetry

 What is being dramatized? What conflicts or themes does the poem present, address, or question?

        *Maybe the person in the poem is having a hard time dealing what she looks like or who she has been, 

          Who is the speaker? Define and describe the speaker and his/her voice. What does the speaker say? Who is the audience? Are other characters involved?

        *A women who is talking about her self portrait. Her voice is calm, and she is taking about the person she used to be and the innocence she has lost. The person she is now and the person she used to be. The audience would be the mirror. 

          What happens in the poem? Consider the plot or basic design of the action. How are the dramatized conflicts or themes introduced, sustained, resolved, etc.?

        *The poet is describing the person she used to be and innocence that she has lost.  

          When does the action occur? What is the date and/or time of day?

        *This poem takes place in the present because she is talking about her past. 

          Where is the speaker? Describe the physical location of the dramatic moment.

        *In a room or bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror. 

          Why does the speaker feel compelled to speak at this moment? What is his/her motivation? She wants to speak what is on her mind and speak of her grief and pain that is on her mine. 

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BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 11
After Linda and John's entrance the Director has resigned. Linda is upset because no one likes her and they won't even look at her because she is so gross. With all her feelings Linda has been taking 20 grams of soma which is way too much. The doctor realizes that this is bad and she will die in like 2 months, but since no one really cares its okay. At first John is mad, but then the doctor convinces him that he is actually lengthening her life. Everyone is being nice to John because he is still young and good looking. This makes Bernard happy because everyone is being nice to him. Also, with Bernard becoming so popular he has slept with six girls this week, even two in one day. Him and Hemholtz get in a fight over this though, so Bernard says he won't talk to him again. He starts to like the place that he once despised of, but what he doesn't know is that people are just pretending to like him because of his connection with the savage. Bernard goes and shows John around London, but when they go to the factory John gets sick at the sight of them making kids. Later Lenina walks in to the dressing room all excited because she gets to bring the savage to the feelies. Lenina is excited because she has the hots for him and now they finally get to hangout. When they end their date all John done is say good bye, therefor Lenina is upset and walks into her house.

INTERPRETATION
In chapter 11 we see Lenina having real feelings, when John only says good by the night they went to the feelies. People are changing, Linda is about to die from too much soma and Bernard is actually starting to like the place he is living in.

ALLUSIONS
"Eternity was in our lips and eyes" allusion to Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra.
"Ariel could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes."

VOCABULARY
intrinsically: belonging to a thing by its very nature

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BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 8

 In chapter eight we learn about Johns past life. How all the boys wanted to sleep with his mom and he remember that the Pope would always come to visit them. The women in the village would whip Linda for sleeping with their men, and when John would try to protect his mom he was whipped too. She then resents being his mother so she hits him, but soon her mother instincts kick in and she comforts him. John was also teased by the other village boys for the way his mom acted. Linda tries to teach John how to read but the only book she had was The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo. Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers. He doesn't understand the book, but still he can read, and his mom cant really explain the book. The Pope then brings him a book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. John then realizes that these words are about the Pope and Linda, so he hates the Pope and decides to kill him. He tries to kill the Pope while sleeping with his mom, and then Linda starts freaking out because of the blood. John ends his story telling by saying that he is always alone, and Bernard says that is the same exact thing for him too. When John deals with his problems instead of taking soma, he goes and lays on a rock in the hot sun like Jesus on the cross. At the end of the chapter Bernard asks if John and Linda would like to come back to London with him.

INTERPRETATION: John has actually gone through a lot in his life and can't just get through it by taking soma. We also reach the inciting event in this chapter. There are many allusions to Shakespeare and Hamlet in this chapter as well.

INCITING EVENT: Bernard inviting John to London

ALLUSIONS
John: John is an allusion to John the baptist
There are also allusions to Hamlet and Shakespeare

BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 9 and 10
Bernard and Lenina return to the rest house and Lenina takes 3 grams of soma so she is out for about eight hours (soma holiday). Since Lenina is out cold Bernard decides to make a plan to get John and Linda to London. Bernard flies back to Malpais and goes secretary after secretary before finally getting a hold of Mustapha Mond. He convinces him that it is a matter of scientific interest, so Mustapha allows him to. After Bernard goes to talk to the Warden and convinces him to let them leave. All while Bernard is gone, John breaks into the rest house and goes through Lenina's things. He is in love with her perfume and the zippers on her clothing, he then sees Lenina. Johns goes over and whispers about her beauty, he quotes a line from Romeo and Juliet. He then hear Bernard's helicopter and gets out as fast as he can. In chapter ten they are back in London, and the Director and all the workers are talking about how Bernard is a jerk and failed to do his social responsibilities. The Director asks if there is any reason why he shouldn't be sent to Iceland, Bernard then say yes there is. After, Linda walked in shouting, "Tomakin! Tomikin! You made me have a baby." Everyone then gasped and there was an uproar in the room. After Linda John walked in saying, "My father!" The director glared at them and walked out of the room with his hands over his ears.

INTERPRETATION: In our world what John did would be considered creeper status, but if Lenina woke up and seen him she probably wouldn't have cared.

VOCABULARY 
imperceptibly: very slight, gradual, or subtle

ALLUSIONS
"her eyes, her hair, her cheek..." allusion to Shakespeare

VOCAB FOR BRAVE NEW WORLD

Auperfluous: unnecessary or needless (adjective)

Prodigious: extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force (adjective)

Pallid: pale; faint or deficient in color (adjective)

Vivacious: lively; animated; gay (adjective)

Pituitary: abnormal size (adjective)

Viviparous: Zoology. bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes (adjective)

Abject: utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched (adjective)

Indefatigable: incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring (adjective)

Apoplectic: intense enough to threaten (adjective)

Ruddy: of or having a fresh, healthy red color (adjective)

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BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 7
Bernard and Lenina are at the Indian Reservation, and Lenina hates their guide because he smells. She complains that they should have brought the plane because she hates walking everywhere. She feels so small when they are on the ground at the bottom of the hill. They watch the savages as they are dancing with cloaks from turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders, huge feathers diadems exploded around their heads. As they danced their silver bracelets, heavy necklaces, and turquoise beads would all rattle. When they danced snakes were being thrown at their feet, and they watched the little boy get whipped as blood pored from his back. The boy just laid there dead as the men picked up the snakes and ran away. Soon three women carried the little boy away. Lenina did not like this at all, women giving breast to their babies, the dirt, piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, and the flies. She searched in her pocket for some soma, but remembered that she had left it back at the rest house. John the savage then appears and starts talking about he wanted to be the one to whip the little boy, but they wont let him because he is white. John the savage then tells them how is father is the controller and his name is Tomakin. John then takes Lenina and Bernard over to meet his mom, who is very old and is dressed in tattered clothes. Being in the place she lives she is so happy to see civilized people.

VOCABULARY
Precipices - (noun) steep rock face or cliff
Goitre - (noun) swelling around the neck from enlargement of the thyroid gland
Innocuous - (adj.) not harmful, offensive
Resonance - (noun) the quality in a sound of being full and deep

INTERPRETATION
The Savage world is a lot different then the world in London. People in the Savage world grow old, actually care about people, and have a "child hood". Unlike people in London who don't have a mother and don't really like to think about things, they just take soma to be happy. Savage people actually have problems in their life and they learn how to deal with them.

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BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 6 PART 1
Lenina wonders if she should go on the vacation with Bernard, but she would rather go to Mexico. Plus they would be spending three days in the Salvage Reservation, and barely anyone gets to visit the Salvage Reservation. On their date Bernard just wants to go on a walk, be alone, and not take soma, but she is complete opposite. When they are on their way home Bernard is hovering over the water enjoying the calmness but Lenina just wants to go home. Bernard tries explaining that they are free and alone, but she doesn’t really care. That night they go to Bernard’s place and sleep together, but the next Bernard wishes he wouldn’t have because he wants to delay the impulses instead of going to what is normal.

BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 6 PART 2
Bernard is sent the Director’s office thinking he will get in trouble for going asking for a permit to go to the Salvage Reservation. Surprisingly the Director signs of on the permit for Bernard. Then the Director goes off about the past and how he went to the Salvage Reservation with a young Bata girl and then she got lost in England. Bernard just let him talk because usually people don’t go off about their past. After, the Director’s rant he tells Bernard that the next time he is caught not acting like an infant he will send him to Iceland, but he doesn’t really take it as a threat. It doesn’t take the effect that it should though and he goes out of the room and says, “He can fight giants.”

BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 6 PART 3
Bernard and Lenina fly to Mexico, and when they get there they have this really nice hotel. Bernard has to warn Lenina that the she needs to prepare herself because the Reservation won't be like this. When they get to the Reservation Bernard remembers that he left the Eau de Cologne tap running, so he tries to hurry the Reservation Warden up. He finally has time to call Helmholtz to have him turn it off, and Helmholtz replies that the Director is already looking for someone to take his place. In other words Iceland is waiting for Bernard, after hearing this he finally decides to take four tablets of Soma. Bernard then sleeps through the whole air tour, and when they land they are dropped of at the rest house.

VOCABULARY
Fulminated - to explode violently
Pneumatic- pertaining to air, gasses, or wind
Solecism- any error, impropriety, or inconsistency
Indecorous- violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly
Derisively- contemptuous; mocking
Blasphemy- impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things

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BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 4 PART 1
Lenina is sharing the lift with many alpha males that she has probably slept with. She then see Bernard and starts talking about their date to Mexico. We also catch a glimpse of Benito Hoover who is left to hang out with Bernard on the roof, because Lenina goes of on her date with Henry. Lenina gets in the helicopter and all Henry say is, "Your four minutes late." They then fly over the city and Lenina talks about how hideous the color khaki and they watched the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons stand around the monorail tram entrance. Lenina also makes it clear that she is glad she isn't a Gamma.

BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 4 PART 2





IRONY
Situational Irony: (Asks who mother is) dirty joke because they don't have mothers

LANGUAGE
Men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water(simile)

ALLUSIONS
Benito Hoover is an allusion to an Italian leader of World War 2.


BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 5 PART 1
Lenina and Henry finish their game of golf and head back to the helicopter. They hung over the forest  of Burnham Beeches that stretched like a great pool of darkness towards the bright shore of the western sky. The Internal and External Secretions factory glared with a fierce electric brilliance from every window of the twenty story building. While on their way back Lenina remembered when she was little girl how the whispers always haunted her in her sleep, and she explains she is not an epsilon. They land on Henry's forty-story apartment building and go down to eat dinner, where an excellent meal is served, and coffee and soma. Calvin Stopes and His Sixteen Sexophonists play.

VOCABULARY: 
Deturgescence: something with jazz music
Perennially: lasting for a long time


BRAVE NEW WORLD CHAPTER 5 PART 2
Alternate Thursdays were Bernard's Solidarity Service Days. He looks up at Big Henry realizing he is late. When the clock strikes nine and it calls out "Ford" nine times. They all gather around for the Solidarity Service, soma tablets were passed around and the twelve stanzas were said. As the soma kicked in people started thinking that Ford was there and they went crazy. "He is here! I hear him!" Sarojini Engles shouts. They all sing the song Orgy-porgy, and Bernard just pretends to go along with it, pretending he is feeling the same way as everyone else.

INTERPRETATION: In this chapter we learn that everyone just takes soma, so they can just be happy and don't actually have to think. That is also why they have the Solidarity Service, the more occupied they are the less they think about what is actually going on in the world.

ALLUSIONS:
Orgy-porgy allusion to children song
Big Henry allusion to Big Ben