Chapter 6 Question

1. Why is being alone a bad thing?
-Because it allows you time alone in your own head, which can lead to being loney, and being lonely makes people feel unhappy which you don't want
2. What do Lenina and Bernard do on their first date? Why is the ocean important? The moon?
-Bernard talks a lot about the ocean and how calming and peaceful he looks at the waves of the ocean. This makes Lenina feel very uncomfortable to feel that way about something so ordinary.
3. What does Bernard say about freedom? What does he mean?
-He says that “wouldn’t you like to free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way”. Bernard is the one who refuses to take soma from people  and likes to spend time alone. He knows that the happiness he feels is just temporary. Bernard wants to be different from other people. He wants to be free from those conditioning and find his own way to feel happy rather than just eating soma like the others do.
4. How does the date end?
-With Bernard giving in to Lenina's begging taking a few grammes of soma and sleeping with her.
5. What does it mean to be infantile in this society?
-Infantile behavior- something the masses are taught  since childhood. As adults they encouraged to have sexual relations with multiple partners. They are encouraged to spend their free time using a drug called Soma and satisfy their primal desires.
6. How does the director feel about Bernard? Why is he warning him?
-The directod notices that Bernard is different so he must have to be monitored closely. He warns him not to question society and act the way he is expected to act ,or else he will be exiled to Iceland.
7. What does his story mean? What does it show us about him?
-The story shows that the director has made mistakes in his past. Like from him leaving with Linda somewhere in the reservation that he is not proud of.
8. How does Helmholtz feel about Bernard after he hears the story of the meeting with the director?
-He is annoyed with Bernard's childish behavior and emotions.
9. What do we learn from the Warden? What are the reservations like?
-There is no escape from a Savage Reservation and children are born into it and will live there for their entire lives.
10. What does the word Malpais mean?
-Malpais is the town and rest house where Lenina and Bernard stay. This is where they watch the sacrifice and where John and Linda live.