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What is the mood of this novel?
Do you find this novel saddens you in any way?
Why?

The mood of "Brave New World" is very negative. You can barely find the happy part in the book. It's very miserable, depressing, and sad. In the novel, there are only sad events. There are part when Linda, John's mother dies, when John dies at the end, and also, when Lenina cries because he can't get loved from John. All the people in the New World doesn't have right, they are not free. They have caste system which is very miserable. Low levels, such as delta and Epsilon, they are badly mistreaten. They were born like slaves. But they don't know that they are being mistreaten because they use the drug, soma. They are conditioned to like that. To me, I think the part where John got mad and throws soma rations out of the window, was very depressing part. John doesn't fit in to that New World and can't exist until he gets sends to jail, or island. Living in normal world and move to this New World, where people are born by machines, where people have to eat the drug, and where you have to worship the science with caste system, would be very odd for him. And these events lead him to commit suicide at the end. That is really depressing mood. What a shocking ending!

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What is the climax of this novel?
What happens?
How do the events of this novel make you feel?

I think there are a lot of climax in this novel. To pick the highest point, I think it is when John got mad. It is when John tries to stop the distribution of the Soma to Delta. John is from the Savage Reservation, where soma is not provided. Soma is a medicine that people eat whenever they feel depressed. In other word, you can call it "drug". People eat this too often, they get addicted to it, until they can't live without it. People in New World always use this drugs. But John doesn't get fit into that culture which makes him get mad. He gets sent to the island with Bernard. This event makes me feel very mad. I hate the New World people's culture. To say it in word, I think it's very rigid and solid. If I was in John's situation, I would do same thing as him. I would not be able to stand and do something crazy, to criticize the world. John threw the soma rations out of the windows, and I would do the same thing. I am really afraid that our future might turn out like this.

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Who are the main characters in the novel?
Do you like them?
Why or why not?

What is special about them?

What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

Lenina- She works in the Conditioning Center of the World State. She brings John to the New World. She falls in love with John. But I think she's kind of selfish. She always puts herself first. I think she relies too much on soma, the drug.

John - He's from the reservation, outside of the New World. He gets braught to the New World by Lenina and Bernard. He has a lot of conflict with Bernard. He's son of the director of the New World and Linda. He's special because he wasn't born by the machines. I really like him since he's normal. He also likes Shakesphere's novel. He doesn't fit in well in the New World and comits suicide.

Bernard - When he was young there were some mistakes which led him to be pysically wrong. He has too much of his individual thought, I think. He brings John to the New World with Lenina. At the end of the story he goes to the island with John

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Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel?What are they, and how do they relate?Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?



In the novel, lives were created by machine, scientifically. Humans don't born the babies but the machines, robots do in the story. In the reality, in these days, one of the biggest issue is cloning. Scientist make a same creatures by cloning people's DNA. Scientists say that this will help the world's cure and cure the diseases that can't be cured easily. But I think this is very wrong. Making a new life creature, since they have a life, I think they have a right and thought. They should be just like as humans. They can also feel the pain. It's taking away a creatures right. We should think another ways for cloning even if it's very good for curing. There are another current situation in this book. In the book there are five caste; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. In these days there are still slavery system which I really don't agree with. I think when people are born, they are equally free. There should be no things as slaves. They have no rights to be equall like the others. For example in Korea, there existed slavery systems long time ago. Also, in US, there were another slavery system as African-Americans came in. Even though it got much better in these days, there are still some problems, like India. We should abolish that system.

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What is the major theme of this novel?

Why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

The book "Brave New World" was a tough book for me. I barely understood the story. I think the main them of this novel is only happiness can't make people happy. In our lifetime, there are a lot of happiness and sadness that we experience through. We feel really good if while we experiece happiness. In the other hand, we feel bad while experiencing sadness or madness. We always expect to have on happiness in our life, but not sadness. We never want to have sadness. Do you think the life would be easy if there is only happiness? I don't think so. I think sadness make the happiness. If there is no sadness, there should be no happiness. If we are alway happy, it would be a boring life. We would feel no more importance of happiness.

I think this is very important to teenagers. It's important especially for those who are in adolescene when they have a lot of resistance. Teenagers will grow up and be the citizens of the world. While growing, there would be a lot of hard times. They should think that this slump of life is also important. Not only happiness is important, but sadness is also very important.

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Entry of your choice.

I have a similar story as animal story book. It is also about the leader of a society. Before I came to TCIS, I was in other school. In my class, we had a class president. At first, all of our classmate thought that he was a very sincere and honest person. In the starting of our grade, he did very good job for his class president. He had a great leadership. He also was popular from the students. He led us when our class had cleaning time. He led us when we had soccer practice. He was good at everything. Everything seemd fine in first place when he really did his job well. As the time goes, I think he became lazy. He didn't do much work or practices. He didn't clean well in cleaning time; he just commanded us to do it. He didn't show to soccer practice often. And at the end of the year, even though he did poor job on the class president, he recieved an award from teachers. He did his job well only in front of the teachers, but when teachers were not with him, he did poorly. I think he same guy as Napoleon. He wants to be comfortable, not thinking about others.

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Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.

The most memorable setting that I have found in this book was building windmill. How can animals build a windmill by their own? Whenever the book mentioned about the windmill when I read it, I imagined the windmill in my head. Even though the book didn't tell me about the description, I think it would be really small for them. It would made out of bricks and woods. I don't know if this windmill helped the animals on working a lot, but it is very cool for animals to make a windmill. This part was very meanigful to me because I love building things. I like playing with legos or make something with my toys. There were few times when the windmill got broken and the animals had to rebuilt. I felt really sorry for the animals. There are few comments about this setting, windmill. It was kind of childish for animals to make a windmill. But by showing the windmill in this story, it tells us that pigs finally got in the control of ruling the animals.

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Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of your entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

There were a lot of significant passages from the novel for me. I think every scene sthat I read were all significant. To pick one passage, it was very difficult. The passage that is most significant to me is at the last part. The part when pigs stand up and act like human. Squalor was standing behind his hind legs and walking around. More than that, the pigs played card game with farmer in their house. It was very scary and shocking to me. Behind Squalor, there was Napoleon who was walking around carrying a whip. This passage was very meaningful to me because it kind of determines the conclusion of the story. It tells that pigs finally became the enemy, ruler. But I have some comments; positive comments and negative comments. Positive comment is that since this passage is very shocking, it gets in my mind and remains long. Negative comment is that it is a little childish for me. I laughed a little bit when I read that passage. I think choosing significant passages from a novel is very important. It helps you remember about that book longer. Next time, when I read a book, I will always remember to choose a significant or important passges.

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What is the mood of this novel? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? why?

The mood of a book is very important to know. The mood of this novel is very various. There is not a specific mood in the novel. At the beginnig of this book, I thought this novel would have a happy mood. I thought the animal farm family get freedom from human and have a piece in the farm happily ever after. But my prediction was very wrong. They did get freedom from human, but only pigs became the ruler and enjoy the freedom they found. The other animals had more painful life from the pigs. If I was the other animal, I would make another rebellion against pigs and find another freedom from them and live happily ever after. I find sadness in this novel. It has sad ending. If you want to read books with delight mood and happy ending, you better throw this book away and find another book. I am kind of a person who doesn't feel well after finishing reading sad ending story book. I felt sick after reading this book. I felt something missing. In somehow, this book has creul mood. There are a lot of scenes in this book that has cruel and violent feelings. Anyway, all of the mood in this book is negative. Next time, when I read book, I will pick books with happy ending and delight mood.

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What is the climax of this novel? What happens? How do the events of this novel make you feel?

Climax can be different to everyone. There are few options in this novel that can be the climax. I think climax of this novel is when the pigs, the evil and cruel ruler, get to walk around. Further more, Napoleon whips the horses. The rule that they have made changed: Four legs good, two legs better form two legs bad, four legs good. This part was really shocking to me. It seems kind of funny but, it is very scary. At first, pigs were the one who blamed human and cursed them. But at the end of this novel, pigs act exactly the same as human. They allied with humans and treat other animals as slaves. The most shocking part was when pigs were playing cards with humans and other animals were looking them through windows. Pigs are betrayer. It makes me feel a little angry to the pigs but in the other hand, I feel very sad for the other animals who work everyday to get their own foods and live.

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Who are the main characters in the novel? Do you like them? Why or why not? What is special about them? What do they reveal about the universal human experience?

In the book "Animal Farm", there are a lot of main characters. I will tell you the most important characters that are shown in the book. First, there is Napoleon and Snowball who are both pigs. They were rivals and competed with each other to rule over the animal farm. I hate both of them who were selfish and greedy to be ruler. I hate Napoleon more since he kicked snowball out of them so that he can rule over by himself. The farmer of this animal farm is Mr. Jones, who was once, their biggest enemy. I think he’s very lazy. He didn’t give a lot of care to the animals. The animals that played very important role on working were horses. Clover and Boxer were horse who worked very hard on making a windmill. I really like them but I think they are very stupid. There is a horse who is very prideless named Mollie. She doesn’t like freedom but wants to be cared by farmers. There is also a pig named, Squealer. He works under Napoleon. When something bad happens in the animal farm by Napoleon, Squealer explains to the animal not to worry. He is also the one who changes the rule for Napoleon, the ruler. To the human world, Napoleon is a bad ruler, and dogs are generals, and the rest of the animals are citizens.

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Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel? What are they, and how do they relate? Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

I think this novel's situation is more about politics. In history, many countries had dictatorship system or communism system. Like in this book, Napoleon had those government systems and became a cruel evil ruler. In my country, Korea, Jung-Hee Park ruled over South Korea with dictatorial government. He ruled us without mentioning any of citizen's opinion which was really bad. In Germany, there was a guy named Hitler who was an evil ruler like Napoleon in the book. He was also dictatorial ruler who killed many Jewish and sinless people just by his own will. In the book, at first Napoleon made the rules that human is always animals enemy because at that time, they were cruelty to animals. But as time goes, animal makes rebellion, when Napoleon became no more scared of humans, he changed the rules without listening to other animals’ opinion. In these days, there are not many situations like this in the book. But long time ago, there were a lot of cruel rulers ruling country however he likes. I think this is not only related to politic. It also relates to small societies. For example, if I am a leader of soccer team, I should make decisions with all the members in a meeting. I should not kick out any people by my own will.

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* what is the major theme of this novel? why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

There are a lot of themes in this book. I found very many when I read it which took me very long time. But I will mention only few of the most major theme of this novel. First theme is that leader of any group shouldn't be tempted by comfort. In this book, pig ruled over the society of animal. They whipped the animal and killed them. Further on, they enjoyed things that they told other animals not to do. I also think this novel strongly criticism communism. Napoleon, who was the president of the animal, even though they had vote system, I think he used the dictatorial government. He’s only the one who has power and do whatever he wants and change the rules by his own will. This novel shows us that communism system and dictatorship system is wrong. Animal farm families would have more peace if they had democratic system. There would not be any killing and whipping then. I think these themes are very important to more to adults. Especially governments who rule the country because this book is about tragedy they get from bad systems. The things that are important to teenagers in this novel is that when they grow up, in any society, a leader should care about member’s feeling and opinions. If the leader does whatever he/she wants, that person is going to mass up the society.