Journal May 18

Wave your mental magic wand and imagine the next three weeks as valuable, unforgettable learning.  What do you expect from the Masterpiece Academy and how can you contribute to making it the experience you envision?

- There are many things that i expect form the masterpiece academy. Almost everyone has something different and it is a unique experience seeing all the work everyone has put into it. I can contribute by taking everyone else's opinions and views on things and incorporating them with mine. Seeing everyone's views on things can help other people realize what they want to do or can help them with there masterpiece.

The interview

The interview helped me a little bit understand more why the author did some of the things he did in the book.

Chapter 8

1.What was John’s upbringing like? His relationship with Linda? His education?
-He had a tough time finding acceptance in the native boys, so much of his time was spent by himself. He has a close relationship with Linda, and feels protective of her around other men.
2. Why doesn’t linda want to be called a mother?
-Because she has been conditioned to think family is wrong and even though she has love and appreciation for John, she is disgusted with herself for having a baby.
3. What social positions do Linda and John hold in Malpais?
-Neither of them are treated with kindness or acceptance. Linda is shown no respect by men, and John is clearly an outsider.
4. What does John want in his life?
-John wants to go to the World State, which is like a dream land according to his mother’s description. John is a character, who does not fit in either society.
5. What does Linda tell him about the Other Place?
-Linda would talk very highly about the Other Place. how you could go flying anytime of dayy??? that there was no such thing as sadness, and how everything was beautiful and happy.
6. What does he learn from Shakespeare? How does he relate to Hamlet? The Tempest?
-John connects with Shakespeare because it speaks to him and he is able to make connections to his own life. He relates Linda to the women sleeping on a bed in Hamlet, and Pope with Hamlet's uncle. John also sees Bernard as Prospero.
7. What does it mean to discover “Time and Death and God?”
-To discover time and death and God means to fully understand the purpose of life
8. What do John and Bernard have in common?
-They are both outsiders in their own community and are continuously striving for acknowledgement. They gravitate towards each other because they see the similarities between them.
9. Why does Bernard want to take John to London?
-Bernard sees fame and recognition through the Savage, and becomes corrupt and greedy and uses him.

Chapter 7 Questions

1. How is the mesa like a ship?
"The mesa was like a ship beclaimed in a strait of lion-coloured dust."
2. Why doesn’t Lenina like their Indian guide?
-Lenina is afraid of the indian guide because he is associated with this unknown place. Her feelings were reciprocated, with the guide being described as "hostile and sullenly contemptuous."
3. What is the city itself like? What are the people like? How does Lenina respond? Bernard
-The streets were dirty and dusty and villiagers walked by in feathers and wearing deerskin shoes, holding snakes. Lenina is shocked and scared at times. Bernard is fascinated in many of the things he sees in the streets .Bernard is shocked along with Lenina.
4. What ceremony do the witness? What does it mean? What does it seem like to Lenina?
-They witness a sacrificial ceremony. This is considered to be an honor by seeing this /witnessing. Lenina sees the blood and what in her eyes is torture and cruelty.
5. What idols emerge from the ground?
-An eagle and Jesus Christ.
6. How is John Savage different? What does he want? How does he respond to Lenina?
-John Savage is different because his mother Linda was born through a battle but she was left at the reservation and gave birth to him at Malpais. He has lighter skin and hair. He wants to fit in with the other indians, but clearly doesn't at all. He seems embarassed, and shy when he notices Lenina watching him.!
7. What is Linda’s story? What has her life been like here? How does Linda react to her?
-Linda traveled to the Reservation with the director a long time back ,  but she got lost and he left without her. She accidently got pregnant and  gave birth to her son John. He pities herself and her life in Malpais, is ashamed for having a baby. Lenina pities her for doing these awful things she has been conditioned to be disgusted with.

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.

I AM HUMAN

What do you pops into your head when someone askes you to define a human? If you asked me i would say a human is a living breathing person that has feelings and makes mistakes. If you look back on your life and think of all the mistakes you have ever made you can hopefully also think of all the stuff you have learned from them. If you're a robot, well, you probably can't do that can you. In my personal view on life, a human uses ethos, pathos and logos in everyday life, contrary to a robot . If you're wondering what ethos, pathos, and logos is, are you even human? Well just incase you are a human that just doesnt pay any attention in english class, ethos is the character of someone, how they appear to you, pathos is how someone can connect with someone else's feelings, letting them see how they feel, logos is credibility, like the evidence that is provided. Now just sit back and think about that. Robots don't have a character, they are designed for a single purpose, and only that single purpose. Robots also don't have feelings, they don't develope feelings like they do in the movies. Theoretically, If you were to ask a robot, for example, why is the sky blue? It's response would be respond  "because it is." ( circular reasoning ). If I where a robot would I have a beating heart or organs that without I wouldn't be alive to write this. Not to mention, a robot is made out of metal and would probably have a really hard time going through airport security. All in all, a robot has no emotion, no regrets or wishes, no dreams, and  no room for error. I am the farthest thing from a robot.

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