Lenina, being the character of the ‘new world’, detests her time there, while the more open Bernard seems open-minded and makes a friend of a native, John, whom despite being born of the Reservation, draws his physical appearance to that of the new world. In chapter Seven, Bernard and Lenina travel outside of London and visit the Mesa Reservation. When Bernard goes to see the Director he tells Bernard that his beliefs are wrong and that if he does not start going by the rules he will be exiled to Iceland. The next day he tells her that he wished he had not slept with her. She begs him to keep going and he takes some soma and sleeps with her. While in a helicopter going to the Reservation Bernard stops it and tells her that he like the silence. They end the ceremony with everyone sleeping with one another and Bernard felt very alone in his dislike for the society’s beliefs. Bernard goes to a ceremony where they played hymns. After a few more somas, they went to Henry’s apartment and she spent the night with him. Lenina went on a date with Henry to Obstacle Golf and after the golf they went in a helicopter and drank coffee with soma in it. Helmhotz his just occupied with his work and does not seem to mind. Bernard goes to tell Helmholtz that Lenina accepted his offer in hope to make him jealous. When Lenina tells everyone that she is going to the Savage Reservation with Bernard, Bernard gets very embarrassed. Bernard hears Henry saying to someone that they should “have her” (Lenina) someday. Fanny talks to Lenina and tells her surprise with her only dating Henry.
Mustapha tells the history of the World State. Then dialog switches in-between Lenina, Bernard, and Mustapha. The students see all of the children “playing” everywhere.
A little boy comes up from behind the bushes and he is not fine with the sleeping with other children so they take him to go see a psychologist. The Director is taking people on a tour and he takes them into the garden. While the babies are sleeping they put on a voice that tells them the class order. He explains this is how they make one class higher than the other. The babies calm up to flowers and books, then a alarm goes off and it gives the babies a mild shock, then they set the flowers and books out again and the kids crawl away in fright. The Director leads a group of students in to the nursery and shows how they “groom” the children. The Director introduces Lenina and she explains to the student that her job is the immunize the castes from typhoid and sleeping sickness. This is also where they get the social class. At Hatchery they have five castes called Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon all babies start out from one of these castes. The book starts off in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre where a group of students are taking a tour to learn all they do to make and train the babies.
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