Novel Project

Novel Proposal:

1. Comprehension
ELABLRL1- I can show my cpmprehension by being able to identify the point of view, symbolism, main ideas, and genres by using evidence taken directly from the literary work.
2.Theme
ELABLRL2- I understand what the theme of the novel is by being able to construct a literary work in the same theme.
3. Connections
ELABLRL3- I can relate what the author is trying to tell me or persuading me to believe to certain events or other novels from modern times.

I can use standards 1,2, and 3 in my responses. I can give evidence for the comprehension, make connections, and tell what the theme is in my three reponses.

4. Composition
ELABLRL4- Writing a poem, or Drawing a picture of the views or opinions I recieve from this book will display my knowledge of the composition.
5. Vocabulary
ELABLRL5- I will keep a list of words I don't know and will define them.


RESPONSE 1:
As I have stumbled upon the point for my first response, I know that Huxley has created a world where poeple don't have histories and everyone was made from test tubes. There are social classes, just like there are in today's world; but they're social classes are programmed to do certain jobs and wear certain colors and uniforms. I know what's going on in the book, but I really don't understand; I havn't connected enough to really enjoy the book.
There are some connections so far that were fairly easy to identify. One is that Ford, like the maker of the cars, is their "God". When they speak they might say "Oh Ford", or "Ford knows. . . " I think that Huxeley made Ford the one they all look towards because his world is displaying the future and at the time he was writing the novel, the Ford models were in style and industry and cities were taking over.


RESPONSE 2:
I'm really enjoying the novel now. In the novel the children are speacialluy conditioned and they are taught certain sayings to help maintain order in the society. Women and men are extremely permiscuous, and in their world, it's ok. They have a 1,2,3 step for contraceptives and protection from pregnancy that they learn early on. In our world permiscuity is common and accepted to a point, yet in Huxley's time, it was frowned upon.
The "New" world has no real mothers or families or sadness. They take soma, which iv'e come to view as a type of ecstasy; yet when they take too much, it's like a sedative and they go on a holiday or sleep for days. Lenina takes it to escape the native world; which I think has a relationship with the way some people do heavy drugs in our world to escape life for as long as they can.
The world also has a world different from theirs. It's called the native reserve and there are mothers there, religion, history, and real work such as hunting and providing and making things to wear and eat from. There is disease and famine is this native land and if you are born there, you will age and die there. The native land in the story is pretty much how we are living in today's world.
Bernard and Lenina bring back a savage from the reservation who happens to be white and the Director's son. As the savage enters the new world, he talks about a Miranda and how she had said or written something about a "Brave New World." I don't know who Miranda is yet, or why the savage is unhappy in the new world, but I think it's because he has found love with Lenina and has to share it with other men. I also think Miranda is some kind of character from the Shakespear book he's reading that he got from the reserve.


Vocabulary:
analogous- being related to
bequeathed- to give or leave by will
flivver- a small cheap or old automobile
atonement- reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ
pneumatic- having a well proportioned feminie figure
indecorous- conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct
precipitous- very steep
ochre- an earthy red or yellow iron ore
vivaparous- producing living young instead of eggs within the body
sepulchral-a place of burial