Book Summery

 The Brave New World starts with an overview of the society and how it functions. It shows all of the different styles of how the children are brought up and how they are taught how to like certain things depending on which society they are from. There are five major social groups, the Epsilons, Betas, Gamma, Deltas, and Alphas. Alphas being the top dogs, and Epsilons being at the bottom of the food chain. People get out put into their social groups even as an embryo, and the conditioning is carried out until they are adults. People who are in a lower social group work for people of a high social status. In the first section of the book we are introduced to a lot of characters, but Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx are the most important. Bernard was an outsider because he thought that the society was rubbish and he didn’t like soma. He had a friend with similar beliefs named Hemholtz Watson. We also learn that in this everyone belongs to every and there are no exclusive relationships. Also, the thought of being a mother was disgusting and only a joke to be a father

The next part of this book is about Lenina and Bernard going to the Savage reservation on vacation.  In this section we meet a woman named Linda who was in love the Director and they went on the same vacation that Bernard and Lenina are on but she was left in the reservation and she was pregnant. So we also meet the son that was born. His name is John and he had a rough childhood. He was also mad fun of and beaten up for being white and also have a mother who was a whore. On top of that, him mother would beat him because she blamed him for ruining her life. So, Bernard went to Mustapha Mond, one of the ten world rulers, if he could bring Linda and John back to London with him for a science experiment. Mustapha approved what Bernard was doing so they all went back to London together.

In the third part of this book, it was about how John worked in the society that his mom had talked so much about. He was really only show cased around by Bernard. John had also developed feelings for Lenina and she thought that she was sharing those feelings, but neither one of them knew how that other felt. Meanwhile, Linda was so unattractive and disgusting because she was a mother she was kept in Bernard’s apartment with endless amounts of soma to keep her happy while she wastes away. So, Bernard invited everyone who was important or of high social status to this revealing of the savage from the reservation, but then, he didn’t come out of the apartment. Everyone left and Bernard was instantly judged again and was an outsider again. Then, Lenina told John about her feelings and he told her his feelings, but she only wanted a physical relationship and not an emotional one and John wanted the opposite. So that didn’t work out and then John’s mom died. So he went crazy and started a riot by throwing all the soma away. Then, because John and Hemholtz here with the savage, they were both exiled to islands to do research was it was socially safe. Then John went to a lighthouse and whipped himself and Lenina went there and he whipped her. Eventually he hanged himself.
 I really enjoyed this book other then the ending. I thought by John killing himself it was the easy way out and society didn't really change by it. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to think about the what ifs in life. Also a person who is started to analyze books and pick them apart would enjoy reading this because there are some easy allusions to pick up and it is good for starters.