Chapter 13 Journal Entry

1. Henry asks Lenina if she would like to go out tonight, but she turns him down and Henry tries to think of why that could be. Lenina sends him away because she is fed up with all of his talking, and then goes back to work, thinking about John. She even screws up her job because she can't stop thinking about him. Then, in the girls changing room, Fanny is baffled that Lenina is still hung up on John. At first, Fanny tries to tell her that John isn't worth it, but then she realizes that is doesn't work and goes about a different approach. She tells her to just go and take John, be confident and firm. John was on the roof, waiting  for Hemholtz to tell  him about his feelings for Lenina. When the door opened, instead of Hemholz, it was Lenina. He was so happy that it was her that way he could tell her how me felt. Also, Lenina was planning on telling John how she felt. John confessed his love, and Lenina confessed how bad she wanted John. So of course Lenina starts taking off her clothes, and John takes this the worst way possible and started calling her a whore and she freaked out and ran into the bathroom. Bernard handed her the clothes she had left on the floor, and then he got a phone call about his mother. She had gotten very sick and so he had to rush to the hospital.
2. This chapter pretty much solves the whole internal conflict the Lenina and Bernard had. They both wanted completely different things out of the relationship. It also provides some comical relief. 
3. Characters
1. Lenina really got her confidence way up and went to talk to Bernard, only to be shot down. This is the closest thing she has ever felt to actual feelings. And even how she has taken soma. But she does make progress as a person i think because she is humiliated in a way that she had never felt before.  
2. John, in this chapter was extremely disappointed I think. He spent all this time trying to be a gentleman to Lenina and do things the right way, but once she knows that he likes her back, she rips her clothes off and terrifies John. He reacts the only way he knows how by yelling at her and calling her a whore. 
4. Literary Elements
1. Symbols
1. In this chapter, when Lenina and Fanny are talking in the changing room, Lenina represents Juliet, Fanny symbolizes The Nurse, and John represents Romeo
2. Allusion 
1. "A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away." Allusion to modern day saying. 
2. The part in the changing room is an allusion to the scene in Romeo and Juliet where the nurse is telling Juliet to marry Paris because there is no point in marrying Romeo. 
5. New Words
1. Trypanosomiasis N. any tropical disease caused by trypanosomes and typically transmitted by biting insects
2. Sanctimonious Adj. making a show of being morally superior to other people