Thesis Statements

Patterns (repetitions)

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The use of soma regularly, citizens of London take soma everyday to go on a holiday and to relieve all of their stress and bad feelings. -How mechanized everything is in the book, from the music to the food. -Technological advancements such as the "Bokanovsky Process", the helicopters, and the feelies. Sex is also emphasized in the book and how everyone is shared.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does Huxley bring back the drug soma through out the book? -Why does Huxley depict the setting as highly sophisticated, mechanically. -With a large portion of the machines taking over what we would usually do today. - What is Huxley trying to tell us with the technological advancements in this book, how do they affect the people in the book.

Thesis Statement: -Through the extreme use of the drug soma and the advancements in technology, Huxley uses Brave New World as a warning of what our world might become. With this being said we see Huxley's negative out look on technological advancements in the future.

Word Choice

Analysis Notes and Observations: -When describing the story Huxley uses long words. -The dialogue is very short and concise. -Huxley also uses scientific words to describe most things. He talks about people and the social classes honestly. -A lot of describing words. -Repetition of words. -The citizens learn rhymes about soma and other things.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does Huxley use short words to describe people and long words to describe the setting, and machines? -Why does Huxley not use a lot of literary techniques, besides imagery? -What is the purpose of adding in the rhymes taught through sleep learning?

Thesis Statement: -Huxley's contrasting word choice between dialogue and setting creates a detached sense of life for the technologically advanced citizens of London. -Proving the point that technology does not create community.

Structure

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The story goes chronologically from beginning to end. In the book there is one flashback in which we learn about the Savages life and his mother, Linda. -There are also not a lot of shifts in time and the pace of the book is pretty steady.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why does the author only have one flashback in the book about the Savage? -What is the point of putting the structure chronologically? -Why are there no big jumps in time in the story?

Thesis Statement: -Huxley structured Brave New World chronologically with a steady pace to show how monotonous each passing day is, showing that a society with many restrictions cannot grow or change.

Narrators

Analysis Notes and Observations: -The narration type in this book is third-person omniscient. -We know all of the characters thoughts. -The narrator also focuses on a few main characters (Bernard and the Savage). -We also see the views of Lenina, Helmholtz, and Mustapha Mond, but not in great detail.

Significant Literary Questions: -Why is the narrator all knowing? -Why does the narrator focus on Bernard and the Savage? -What is Huxley trying to prove by focusing just on Bernard and the Savage? -Why did Aldous Huxley incorporate the ideas of Lenina, Helmholtz, and Mustapha Mond in the story?

Thesis Statement: Aldous Huxley narrates the lives of two outcasts from different societies to show how universal acceptance is (in this case nonacceptance). This shows that the fundamentals of two completely different communities are still the same even though they may have grown in opposite directions.

Propaganda

This is a propaganda poster for the allied side during WWII taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ww2_poster_oct0404.jpg

1. The poster seems to target men in the community, asking them to join the army so they can help defeat Hitler, who looks foolish and weak in this poster.
2. It uses humor so it is more likely to be accepted by the general public.
3. They depict Hitler as a foolish and weak man by showing him with his boxers. His legs are shaking and he looks confused by the situation. They also show a lot of destroyed tanks know as "Panzer's" and they add humor to the poster by relating the word "Panzer" to "Pants".
4. The audience may feel manipulated by this poster because in reality the German army was not that weak, and in this poster they depict their leader as a fool.
5. The tone of the poster seems serious/funny because they are trying to stir up nationalism to help support the Allied side. It is unusual that they would use humor to try and relay such a message.
6. I think the message will stick in peoples minds because the picture is so ridiculous and the word "Panzer" is used with "Pants".

Dystopian Novel Journal C (Brave New World)

There are many disturbing scenes through out Brave New World that would appal many people today in our world. Everything in Brave New World has been planned out already. There is no freedom to choose what you want to become in your life because you are already conditioned to a certain class. The social ranking system in Brave New World is also very distinct. People are conditioned into a certain rank by how much oxygen they receive and how much education they get. This creates a highly organized and highly separate system when it comes to people in this book. In this book it seems that Huxley criticizes the use of machines and scientific advancements, one being the Bokanvosky, in which up to 96 identical identical twins are formed. He also seems to criticize the social ranking system because it is so hard to move up in the social latter in this book. Huxley also denounces the use of soma, a powerful drug that causes people to feel extremely happy, some people have also died from this. Even though the ideas presented in Brave New World may seem absurd to us today if we ever get to the books level technology wise it may be a serious idea. Huxley also gives us the out look on the "savages". This group of people live much like us and seem to be happier with their lives. It seems that Huxley gives us two view points in this book, one of the highly technological and planned group and one like our present day group.

Word Count: 261

Brave New World (patterns)

Patterns seen in Brave New World:

• Soma
• Machinery "Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn't see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour.Two hundred and sixty-seven days at eight metres a day. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-six metres in all" (7).
• Technological Advancements "Bokanovsky's Process"

Questions:

• Why does Huxley bring back the drug of Soma through out the book?
• Why does Huxley depict the setting as highly sophisticated, mechanically. With a large portion of the machines taking over what we would usually do today?
• What is Huxley trying to tell us with the technological advancements in this book, how do they affect the people in the book?

Thesis:

• Through the extreme use of the drug soma and the advancements in technology, Huxley uses Brave New World as a warning of what our world might become. With this being said we find out Huxley's view point on the advancement of technology.

Dystopian Novel Journal: Brave New World (Topic A)

"Each bottle could be placed on one of fifteen racks, each rack, though you couldn't see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour. Two hundred and sixty-seven days at eight metres a day. Two thousand one hundred and thirty-six metres in all" (7). In this section of the novel a group of students are being taken around the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. Aldous Huxley describes this utopia as a very scientific and calculated society. The citizens of this community plan every detail out and know the effects of all their conditioning treatments. Through these actions we see that this society has taken the emotion and hard work out of the people and simplify most jobs (such as creating 96 people from the same embryo). This utopia dehumanizes humans from the beginning, determining the destiny of everyone by how they are developed. People are conditioned to like their jobs. The people are motivated to work by the conditioning treatments they receive while they are still young. This causes the government to be not as strict and allows for a small number of social misfits and rebels due to the strong conditioning system this society offers. The order is also kept by the social hierarchy, the workers at the hatchery determine the intelligence and social class of the people by using different methods (oxygen deprivation). The primary goals of the society seems to try and perfect a society where every person is satisfied with their own lives.

Word Count: 204

Stranger Journal 9 (conclusion)

At the end of The Stranger Mersault seems to come to terms with his death sentence. At first he seemed very nervous and scared about dying as he discussed the procedure and how it affected his mother and father. In the final pages of the book Mersault has an epiphany; in this epiphany he unleashes all of his ideas on to the chaplain and seems to full embrace existentialism as he talks about no one caring if he was dead. I believe that Camus wanted the reader to come to the same conclusion based on the fact that Mersault was the main character of the book and that he is narrating the book. It seems that Mersault is happy with himself at the end of the book because during the entire story he seemed detached from reality but still connected to the characters of the story. In the end though he seems happy because he finally embraced existentialism fully.

Stranger Journal 8 (thesis statement)

Through the use of symbols, dynamic characterization, motifs, and foil, Albert Camus illustrates the point that a person's actions do not need to be aligned with the ideals of society in order to find purpose.

1. Through the use of symbols, motifs, and character foils, Albert Camus illustrates the point that a person's actions and thoughts do not need to be aligned with the ideals of the society in which he lives in order for him to feel content.

The Stranger Journal 7 (comparing part 1 and 2)

Albert Camus creates a part one and a part two in The Stranger to help separate the happenings in the book. In both parts we see that Mersault is detached from reality. In part one Mersault is detached mentally from what is happening. In part two he is detached more physically (being kept in a prison cell). In part one Camus also seems to setup Mersault as a character rather than tell a story until the very end (when he goes to the beach). In part two Camus tell Mersault's story and how he is interacting with the situation of the court room. In both parts Mersault feels that sensation of being watched; in part one by the sun and in part two by the people of the court room.