English 11 Standard students reading Brave New World may post questions, comments, thoughts, and connections here for their classmates to respond to.
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If you are posting, please do not include your full name. First name, Last name initial will do.
Your post should include:
- a short quotation with questions or comments, OR:
- general questions or comments about the book, OR:
- a connection you've found to cloning that others might find relevant, OR:
- a specific response to what someone else has written.
You will receive extra credit for each posting or response. We will use these first to block out missing homework assignments; from there, you will receive 10/10 on new extra grades.
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In " A Brave New World" what is the order of social classes. What is the best category you can be in, out of Alphas, Deltas, Betas, and Gammas? and what is the worst?
We have been asked to write a paper on the books we are assinged and choose a position on it. My group and I have discussed our views on the book and what we thought the author was trying to tell us, but we never really discussed our personal views on cloning. Since my paper is on genetically modified foods i wont be able to really say if im for cloning humans or not, and since their is this blog site im going to tell you. I am against clonning, i feel that if we do clone humans we will all be segragated and people will not be excepted. With our world today and all of the history we have had about slaves and discrimination i can only see that with cloning the same situation will happen again. If any one has opinions or wants to let me know their views, please tell me.
I am asking another opinion question to see if some one has a diffrent response then me. I am currently reading the book and our assignment is to read to chapter 14 for tomarrow. I got to the end of chapter 11 and thought this would be a good blog. What do you think is going to happen with Lenina and John because lenina is stating to have feelings for him. My opinion is that he is going to have the same feelings for her and something big is going to happen. Either they run away and theirs a big chase, or i think maybe they might be killed because they are giving the other clones ideas by rebeling (even though not alot of people know yet). Any one else have an opinion?
This is a short one but what is up with John quoting Romeo and Juliet i do not understand why he keeps doing it and what it has to do with anything.
Also what do you think is going to happen with Lenina and her baby? I think they are going to try and kill it, which might lead to her running away. I also am confused on whose it is because its said that she blames it on Bernard but can clones have babys? It possibly could be johns because he is a savage. or maybe they are lieing to lenina about the baby to scare her to stop being interested in Bernard.
do the people in this society really fly around helicopters and not drive around cars?
I think that is cool how the people who live in the civilization were they are cloned go to the reservation and discover a whole new way of living. They have never seen any thing like it before. And when the to society see how each other live they are disgusted bye one another.
I think that it is just unreal how the people in this book can just go home and have sex with who ever and not even be in any kind of relationship together.
I wouldn't mind living in this kind of society. The people living in it have no thoughts about the different classes that they are in. like say they are an epsilon they are happy to be that way because they don't know any thing. if I was happy with the way i was, then why would Bother changing that.
nick r said "Also what do you think is going to happen with Lenina and her baby? I think they are going to try and kill it, which might lead to her running away."
I think you meant Linda and her baby? Anyways, I feel that they will kill the baby a long with Linda. The doctor himself said that the amount of soma she is taking will make her die sooner. They also like the fact she is taking a lot of soma so she doesn’t talk. If you read page 154, Dr. Shaw said that with the amount of soma she will only last 1-2 more months.
Jeff m said “do the people in this society really fly around helicopters and not drive around cars?”
Well, Jeff, let me direct you to a quote that might help you out. “The summer afternoon was drowsy with the hum of passing helicopters; and the deeper drone of the rocket-planes hastening, invisible, through the bright sky five or six miles overhead was like a caress on the soft air” (Page: 59) There are more then one helicopters because there is a hum of passing helicopters. I would also think he would be a bit more excited if he didn’t ride in them/see them all the time. This leads me to conclude that they use helicopters and not cars. I hope this helps you out.
Do you think that John feels the same way about the place Lenina lives as Lenina felt about the reservation?
Do you think that John feels the same way about the place Lenina lives as Lenina felt about the reservation?
I'm going to write my paper on genetic engineering, I think that being able to make it so people are not born with life changing diseases would be good. I wouldn't want people making clones they want them then using the clones body parts. Has anyone found any interesting websites/articles concerning this topic?
On your place I would arrive differently.
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