BNW Chapter 7

Please read Chapter 7 and answer the following questions. Answers must be posted by November 17th for full credit.

1. How does Lenina feel about their appointed guide?
Lenina does not like their appointed Indian guide. She thinks he smells, as well.

2. How does Lenina react to "naked Indian"(p. 110)? Does it remind you of anyone else we have studied?
Lenina is very shocked at the old naked Indian. She stares at him in "horror and amazement." She has never seen a truly old person, because the World Order doesn't allow them to look old, and they usually die around 60. She finds it "terrible," and "awful."

3. How does Bernard react to the pueblo of Malpais?
Bernard is ashamed of "the weakness he had displayed that morning at the hotel, so he is trying to show Lenina that he is "strong and unorthodox." He does this by being "deliberately outrageous," and talking about the "wonderful" relationship between the Indian mothers breast-feeding their babies, to purposefully freak Lenina out.

4. Who is Linda? What is her relationship to Tomakin?
Linda is Tomakin's mother. She had come from the "Other Place" before Tomakin was born, with Tomakin's father, who, it is implied, is the DHC. This means that she is the girl who went on a walk during the thunderstorm, and couldn't be found, and so was assumed dead.

5. Why does Linda believe that "everything they do is mad"(p. 121)? Please be specific.
Linda believes that, "everything they do is mad" because "it's all different here." It's mad because they mend their clothes instead of buying new ones, and are monogamous, and the women are "cruel," and they don't use birth control.