John

John lived in the lighthouse to escape from everyone. He didn't believe that he fit in and didn't agree with the world he was living in. He wanted space from everyone and everything there. He wants to time to himself, to be independent.

Differences between Reservation vs. Civilization

The civilized world is more fortunate than the reservation. It holds more money and power than the other. The civilized world is not allowed to use love and mother or father. All they do is have sex and teach children at a young age that books are bad and nature is bad. They completely blow over the idea of death and see it as a good thing.

Sexual Behavior

In Brave New World sex is portrayed as something normal as it is here. What is different though is that you are suppose to have sex with multiple people to fit in. As Christians we don't believe until sex after marriage which is the way it should be.  Kids in this book are forced to have sex and are taught at a young age that having sex with one person isn't good. It should be with multiple people.

Bernard's Transformation

Bernard had a different outlook on things when he got back from the reservation. He wished that he would've lived this way his whole life. He started taking soma again and started acting differently. He also went to visit Linda and John.

Advertisements

Soma is being advertised as something good for the people. The people of Brave New World know nothing else besides the way soma makes you feel. I could relate this to cigarettes. Although they are not portrayed as being something to benefit you in this world they make people happy. People don;t realize how dangerous and harmful certain things are until they are told by someone else. When John saw what soma did to Linda, his mother, he wanted soma gone. He didn't want anyone else taking it because he saw how badly it damaged his mother.

Technology

I think that one important piece of technology that is used in my everyday life would be a computer or also a laptop. I think that the advantages of having a laptop are that they make school work a lot easier. For instance you are able to type papers without having to write them and the computer can help proofread your work. Also you can look up information for classes and they are also an important tool for communicating with people. A danger that happens very often are if your laptop happens to stop working or break down you don't have any access to the work you have been doing.

Modern Satire

Satire is everywhere in today's world. We see it especially on Saturday Night Live skits, comics in the newspaper, online, in video games and even on awards shows.