Chapter 5 Part 1 Journal Entry

1. All of the courses were closing, so Lenina and Henry got in to helicopter and flew over the crematorium. Then Henry explained to Lenina that after people die, they are cremated and their ashes are used to help grow plants. Then Lenina's hypopaedia training kicked in and she told herself over and over again that everyone works for everyone  else. Everyone is important. Then, they went to some sort of party and they each took some somma, as did everyone else at the party. There was music about somma and there was dancing at this party. The somma made it hard to tell what was real and what wasn't. 
2. This is important because it shows what higher class people do in their spare time. You also start to see how somma can be addictive because Lenina only takes a half of a gramme tablet and Henry took three. This chapter is still setting up for the big inciting event and we are still getting to know the society. 
3. Characters
1. The only characters that are featured in this chapter are Lenina and Henry and they didn't change in any drastic ways, the chapter just went into the kinds of activities they are interested in during the evening. It gave a sort of background to theui social life. 
4. Literary Elements
1. Henry Foster
1. (scientist) (1796–1831), British naval officer, explorer and scientist
5. New Words
1. Perennially abv. lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time

Chapter 4 Part 2 Journal Entry

1. At the beginning of this chapter, Bernard was walking across the roof, thinking about how he was upset that Lenina was so comfortable with talking about their date in public and then went off to go on a date with Henry. Even though he knew is was the normal thing to do, he was still upset about it. Then, when he tried to give and order to a couple of Delta-Minus attendance, but they didn't listen to him at first, because he didn't look like an Alpha. He had this problem a lot and was jealous of people like Henry because everything was so easy for them. He didn't like how women would laugh at him whenever he would ask them out and that made him feel like an outsider, so he acted like one.  The Bernard got into a plane and went to southward to see Helmholz Watson. Helmholz was thought to be a very successful man, because he was a writer, very strongly built, and got around with a lot of women. Although he was successful, he was very happy, he thought there was more to life then women and was interested in that. The Bernard and Helmholz talk, Bernard talks about his date with Lenina, and then Hemholz goes on about how he has given up girls for the last couple of weeks. Then he describes how he feels like he was this voice and he feels he has to share this voice of extra power to everyone. He, like Bernard, is not content and is an outsider. 
2. I think this chapter is important because we get a good look at the life of an outsider. The first part of the chapter was all about people who fallow the rules and go through life easy, but Hemholz and Bernard aren't content, and are socially unstable. There is also some foreshadow that Hemholz might be up to something. 
3. Literary Elements
1. Simile
1. "... men who moved through the caste system as a fish through water..."
2. Foreshadow
1. "...He was interested in something else..."
4. New Words
1. Hypocritically
1. Abv. a person who indulges in hypocrisy.
2. Plaintive 
1. Adj. sounding sad and mournful 

Chapter 4 Part 1 Journal Entry

1.     In this chapter, Lenina accept Bernard to the savage reservation in New Mexico for a week in July. She told him that she would go with him in front of a crown of popular Alphas and it made him a little awkward. Lenina thought to herself that she was proving to unfaithfulness to Henry in a public area so it would make Fanny happy. He asked if they could talk about it later because of all the people around, so they went to the roof, but Lenina had to go because she was late to seeing Henry.  When she got to Henry, he mentioned her lateness then they went off to an obstacle golf course about 6 kilometers away. They see the different social groups and Lenina mentions their clothes from her hypnopaedia. Then they began their first round of obstacle golf.

2.     This chapter in important because it is still giving the audience more of an insight of the inter workings of the society, mostly from the Alpha’s poit of view. For example, Lenina kept commenting on the clothes of the other social groups and how the weather was perfect for obstacle course. Also when Lenina accepted Bernard invitation to the savage reservation, she een mentioned that he had to go be with henry and it was totally normal.  We see how Lenina really is like in this chapter. For example, when she walked into the changing room it said that she had been with almost every guy in the room. And, she wanted to prove her unfaithfulness to Henry by talking to Bernard in a public area. This was a good thing that needed to be done and Lenina thought it would make Fanny happy. Also, we learned that Bernard is a gloomy person, and that he doesn’t take soma.

3.     Literary Elements

a.     Irony

                                               i.     “Anyhow, she was publicly proving her unfaithfulness to Henry. Fanny ought to be pleased, even though it was Bernard.”

                                              ii.     “… Asked him who is mother was, or something like that.”

b.     Metaphors

                                               i.     …”The twilight of his own habitual stupor.”

                                              ii.     “The summer afternoon was drowsy with the hu of [assing helicopters…”

4.     New Words

a.     Annihilating- V. destroy utterly; obliterate

b.     Imperiously- Adv. assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

c.      Caste- N. the system of dividing society into such classes.

d.     Incandescence- Adj. emitting light as a result of being heated

Chapter 3 Journal Entry

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

Vocabulary 4

1) Castes-n.  an endogamous and hereditary social group limited topersons of the same rank, occupation, economic position
The caste to which the man was in made it so he could only do some things. 

2) Precipice- n. a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
The house was on a precipice. 


3) Ruminating- v. to meditate or muse; ponder.
The little girl was ruminating about where she could have lost her favorite teddy bear. 

4) Adage n. a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation. 

The man was familiar with the adage that the little boy was expressing. 


5) Magnanimity n. The act of being generous. 
The magnanimity of the old man was poor when Zack punched him in the face and Donovan laughed.

6) Axiomatic Adj. 
It was axiomatic that the little girl drew on the wall.

7) Ignominy N. disgrace; dishonor

The girls ignominy was to much for the old man, so he keeled over an died. 


8) Mollified V. to soften in feeling or temper

The cookies mollified the little girl after the puppy peed in her shoe.

9) Intrinsically Adv. belonging naturally; essential

The girl intrinsically went to the house that she grew up in. 

10) Cajolery N. persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery
The cajolery of the old woman was best when she tried to get the boy to water her plants.