BNW Prompts You May Have Missed... [If you're looking for the vocab words scroll down.]

Here is the prompt we completed in class on Monday, February 8...

Imagine you have spent several days observing rituals and daily life in Malpais, New Mexico in the year 632 A.F. You have also met John, Linda, Pope, Mitsima, as well as Bernard and Lenina. Write a diary entry or letter to someone describing your day. Be sure to describe rituals and daily life. What values and beliefs can be inferred from the rituals and life there? (You might also compare these to rituals and daily life in the World State.) Be specific. You must quote a Malpais inhabitant at least once. (You might also talk about your encounters with and/or observations of some of the characters who appear in these chapters.) Be sure to also include personal feelings and ideas about life in Malpais.

Here is the prompt that we completed in class on Friday, February 5

A scene is a passage in a work of literature that occurs in one place at one time.

What is the most important scene in chapter 4 (page 57) through chapter part 2 (page 99) of Brave New World?

Describe the scene with detail including any of the following literary elements: characters, setting, events, allusions, puns. Then analyze how the scene is significant.

(In other words explain how the scene contributes to the satirical, dystopian society; or in other other words (wink, wink) how the scene fits in with Huxley making fun of where he thinks modern life is heading.)

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