Brave New World Response #2

In chapters seven through twelve alot happened that changed the way Bernard acts. Bernard asked Lenina if she would go with him to a reservation in New Mexico. At this reservation people still live ordinary lifes. Children are born naturally and people still consider sex a private act. Well before they can go Bernard had to get permision by the Director of London. The director told Bernard how he had once gone there and how the girl he went with got lost and she never returned with him. The director quickly realized that he was showing some emotional attachment to this girl and granted Bernard permision and yelled at him to get out of the room.



At the reservation Bernard meets a white boy(everyone at the reservation is dark skinned) named Jon and finds out that Jons mom is not from the reservation but from London. Bernard puts two and two together and realizes that he has found the girl the Director had told him about. Bernard meets Jon's mom Linda and decides to take them back to London. Bernard then calls Mustapha Mond (European Controller) and gets the permision to bring the two individuals back for scientific interest. The permision is granted and Jon, Linda, Lenina, and Bernard go back to London.



Once they arrived in London Bernard takes Linda to the Director. Linda cries out to the Director but he acts like he does'nt remember her. This scene takes place in a crowd of people and the Director is embaressed and quits his position. Linda is hurt that the Director is ashamed to show any affiliation with her. So Linda goes back to Bernard's room where she takes Soma pills (relaxatives) and sits all day.



Bernard soon finds out that everyone wants to see the two individuals he brought back with him and he starts to gain popularity. Bernard likes the attention because before he was considered an outcast but now everyone wants to talk to him. Bernard seems to lose interest in Lenina and also forgets about his views on why someone should have sex and starts seeing all kinds of girls. He would just invite alot of people to his house so they could hang out with him but at the same time see Jon and Linda. Bernard's sex life and social status goes through the roof, but one day this all changes. Bernard invites alot of people over to see Jon, but Jon realizes that Bernard is just using him so he does'nt come out of his room. Bernard gets humilated and everyone leaves his house.

While Bernard was acting all big headed he lost interest in Lenina. So Lenina started to like John. She would always try to go out with him. John liked her too but he liked to take things slow. John would go out with Lenina but would never try to make a move on her and Lenina was starting to get a bit frustrated but she would always be patient with him. As far as i now this is pretty much all that has been going on up until now.