1. What was the climax of the story? Some of you have already talked about this in class, but I want each group to come to a consensus.
2. What was the social commentary?
3. Why did you like/dislike the novel? Don't just say "I thought the story was good"... I want some opinion and thought, here! Also, I don't want you to write "it sucked" without backing up your opinion with some good, critical comments. Think of a movie review. Those reviewers never just say "it sucked"... they give evidence and details.And... it's okay to dislike your book!
The climax of the story is in my opinion when the Savage decide to go against soma and toss them out while people are distrubuting it. I say it is so because after that event, it become like a point of no return thing, meaning the story can't turn back. This is like a breakthrough and force the antagonist to take action to put a stop to the main characters. After this event, the Savage is left alone as his friends are seperated from him and he himself goes crazy soon after.
The commentary I think could mean is that no perfect world is accepted by everyone. The world in the book sound like heaven, no worry and pain, but the Savage see it as madness, because he believe life without pain isn't life anymore, but is a false reality. The world shouldn't be control by one person and everyone should be free to create their ideal world by working toward it. We have to see that there are other people and they have their ways of thinking that is different from ours, and that is what make us unique and a human being.
I find the story hard to read at time because the words are something hard to understand and at random point the author "jumps" around, switching focus randomly. I get confuse around those point and I also didn't like how many characters get very little development. Many seem to be thrown in just to fill up some pages or something, for example, while Lenina seem important at the beginning, she doesn't change nothing in the end. She was ignored toward the end of the book when I thought she was going to play a big role. Other than my few compains, the book present a nice story of how our futurn could be and how it is not truly a perfect world like the controller claim it to be. It give me a odd understanding of while how something is bad at time, like pain and sorrow, we need these negativity to live for it remined us of what we need to do and what is right and wrong.
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I agree with the commentary. I also feel that the social commentary can be many things. The author, Huxley talks about so many different things its just hard to have ONE theme, ONE message but I agree with what you think it is. Good Job Jeffrey!
-Melody
well it seems as if our opinions are differne but i get what you mean. there's a lot of parts in hte sotry where things get heated up and big events happen. i think its smart of the author to share he perspectives of all the other minor characters, so we get an understanding of how other people feel.
Great explanation of the social commentary! As much as we all want health and happiness, it's hard to imagine life without the sickness and sorrow.
It's all about balance!
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