jaepixel.blogg.se - Brave new world summary chapter 2

That night, he narrates the whole encounter to his BFF Helmholtz, embellishing a little bit with his claim that he told the Director to "Go to the Bottomless Past.".Anyway, Bernard is all "I can fight giants!" and, besides, he knows Iceland was just an empty threat.Bernard leaves absolutely elated because he has established his individuality, become a rebel, fought authority. Except this little threat doesn't exactly have the intended effect.He adds that if he ever hears another report of Bernard not acting like an infant, he'll send him to Iceland.Alphas, he says, don't have to be infantile (because they have the intelligence not to), but it is their duty to choose to be infantile. Now that he's all crabby, he goes on to reprimand Bernard.Now, the Director sounds pretty upset about this whole thing, but when Bernard expresses his sympathy, he sternly responds that he had no sort of emotional attachment to the lost girl whatsoever.Then she got lost, and he had to return home to England without her. Continue he does: the Director visited the Reservation with a young Beta girl.But Bernard, curious, says nothing about the error and allows the Director to continue.

This, of course, is a big mistake, since in this world you're not supposed to talk about the past.

The Director signs his initials on the permit and then reminisces about the time, some twenty-five years ago, when he visited the Reservation himself.

In this particular case, he's afraid of being reprimanded for requesting a permit to visit the New Mexico Reservation.Like a student sent to the principal's office, he's afraid of being reprimanded. Chapter 6 opens with Bernard at the door of the Director's room.