Okay, so I have a few questions about Chapter 1.
First of all, was Huxley trying to make a point when he said "only thirty-four stories"?
In the second paragraph, he describes the first floor. "Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory."
I don't understand any of that. Does he mean the room is air conditioned? And what is he describing?
What was the point of saying "Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collecters compose the backbone of society."? p.4 What is the underlying meaning?
Does the number of times it takes to get an egg fertilized influence which ones undergo Bokanovsky's Process? Or is this stage too early?
Why are the eggs xrayed? Does it agitate them to make them bud, like freezing?
Are they racist in London, or do they just have cold humor? (on p.9, when Mr. Foster is speaking of Mombasa)
Why did Mr. Foster have to work overtime when Japan had an earthquake? p.10
Please respond, this book has always confused me.
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Um, Breanna, I think all of those questions are different for each person, and all of those strange and confusing points in BNW are there for us to question and guess about for ourselves. Still, I'm pretty sure we'll be going over all of that when the school year starts.....but then again I'm not Mrs. Fletcher, so I'm not sure
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