Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the novel opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where the Director of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving a tour to a group of boys. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. During the gestation period the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyer belt through a factorylike building, and are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. The Alpha embryos are destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State. Each of the succeeding castes is conditioned to be slightly less physically and intellectually impressive. The Epsilons, stunted and stupefied by oxygen deprivation and chemical treatments, are destined to perform menial labor. Lenina Crowne, an employee at the factory, describes to the boys how she vaccinates embryos destined for tropical climates.My opinion about the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, would be it's truely weird they duplicate embryos by the thousands. And they have categories that separate you by how hot and sexual you are. And it's against the rules to fall in love with someone because they want you to have sex with as many people as possible and produce as many embryos as possible. They have this medicine that makes you really want to have sex with different people and they will even let you go where ever you want to go as long as you do what your suppose to do. It's just really weird.
Reviewed by Samantha, Grade 12.
Montrose Library
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This book was one of the weirdest books I have ever read. It was very creative and full of different ideas. As weird as it was, it was still a good book to read. Brave New World was easy to comprehend and gave a good laugh. I would recommend for people to read it if they like humor.
Reviewed by Anonymous, Grade 12
Glendale Central Library
I feel like this book represents reality because the world here works similar to the way it works in reality. Your destiny is already partially decided as soon as you are born. You can't change your parents, and neither can they. In this book, a drug called soma exists. Soma is an anti-depressant that makes the user only feel happiness and joy, and forget about problems temporarily. Soma is symbolizing how people try to escape reality day to day, instead of just facing their problems. Also, soma is a great way for the government to control the population. Soma can give you great feelings, but at the price of your freedom and individuality. I really liked this book, it was a great eye opener.
Reviewed by A.E., Grade 9
Glendale Central Library
This book, simply put, is amazing. It was published in 1932 but the writing is so modern and contemporary that it feels like someone from the future wrote it. Aldous Huxley's novel is a marvel. The language Huxley uses to describe things is beautiful.
I recommend Brave New World to all readers, but the language and themes the novel deals with could be a bit too advanced for younger readers. However, any reader would thoroughly enjoy this book and I highly suggest you take a read!
Reviewed by Melody S., Grade 10
Montrose Library