Chapter 7 Journal Entry

1. This chapter starts off with Lenina and Bernard going to the pueblo with the native guild. Lenina doesn't like her guild because he smells funny. When they arrive there are natives that are painted and were doing different chants and dances. The guild was waiting for instructions on what they were going to do. Then, there was an old man that disgusted Lenina because he was old and had wrinkles all over his body. Then the guild came back and summoned them to come with him. The native lead them to place where there were flutes are drums playing. It reminded Lenina of the synthetic music back home and it calmed her down a bit. Then, there were men in masks dancing and chanting. There were snakes in a square, then, a young man stepped out of the crowd and started walking around the square when another man came with a whip and stroked him repeatedly. The young man was whipped until he collapsed on the floor, unmoving. Then, the danced gathered the snakes, and everyone was gone. Lenina was, of course, terrified at the sacrifice she had just witnessed, and she wished she had her soma. Then, a young man by the name of John came over and introduced himself. John explained that eh wished that he was the one being sacrificed. Lenina was confused as to why he would want to put himself in pain, then he told her that is would prove the he was a man. Then, John started talking about his mother and how she had come from the other place outside the reservation with the man who was his father. Then John took them to to his pueblo. There, they met Linda. She had gained a lot of weight and lost her sense of personal hygiene while she had loved there, but you could tell that she was the society that Linena was from. Linda was going on about how she missed everything back home and how she just wished she had some soma. Also she was ashamed of having a son. Then she was explaining how it was so weird that people were devoted to one person, instead of everyone belonging to everyone. 
2. This chapter is important because it gives some background about the savage reservation and how things were done there. Also it showed a more modern society in some ways but totally different in others. Like there are families in the savage reservation, unlike the society in the book, but they have sacrifices for water to make the crops grow big. You don't see very many sacrifices these days. Also, we are introduced to two new characters, John and Linda. Linda just so happens to be the woman that the director took to the savage reservation and she got lost. John is Linda and the director's son.
3. Characters
1. After the soma wares off, Bernard sees and starts to think about what it would be like to have a family and what it would be like if he had a mother. 
2. Lenina has forgotten her soma, so she was there mentally for the whole tour. She liked the drums because they reminded her of the synthetic music form back home, but when she sa a mother breast feeding, and the sacrifice, she went bonkers. Also, when she met Linda, she was so disgusted she was almost sick. The way she smelt and the way she looked was revolting to her. Not to mention that Linda was a mother. 
3. Linda and Lenina are very similar in some ways. Such as the thought of being a mother is horrifying and they are both materialistic. For example, even though Linda had the chance to have a baby, which in most cases would change a woman's whole perspective on children,  didn't really seem to faze her very much. It did in little ways, but in the big picture, she is ashamed of having a child. Also, after having to live in the reservation, she tried to find a replacement for soma. But, this drink had horrible side affects after it had worn off and made Linda gain weight pretty rapidly. 
4. John is an honorable young man. He wanted to be sacrificed so that he could show that he was a man and that he could take a hit without screaming in pain. He also has to put up with Linda, and although he loves her and protects her, some of the things she does he doesn't like. 
4. Literary Elements
1. Allusions
1. "But cleanliness is next to fordliness"- Old saying in modern day
2. "And pointing to the bloodstains in the center of the square, 'Do you see that damned spot?'"- Allusion to Macbeth
3. "The multitudinous seas incarnadine"- Allusion to Macbeth
2. Simile
1. "... the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky."
5. New Words
1. Indefatigable Adj. (of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly
2. Emaciated Vb. make abnormally thin or weak, esp. because of illness or a lack of food 
3. Innocuous Adj. not harmful or offensive