Linda

= Character Review and Analysis: Linda=

For the character of Linda, you need to gather information in the following areas. Remember that you need to identify direct and indirect characterization. To understand those terms go to the following link: [|Direct vs. Indirect Characterization] and review the handout on [|Defining Characterization].

Also, be sure to include quoted evidence from the novel and explain how it relates. Use the link on the home page to go to the full electronic text of the novel and copy and paste text when you need evidence.  Finally, make sure that you help to SPAN the novel- don't just focus on one part- try to include evidence from across the novel so that we get a full picture of the character.

For each of the following areas of Characterization, you need to give an **example** (quote the text) and then an **explanation** (this comes from your mind):


 * Direct Characterization: where the audience is told directly about the character.**
 * Lots of men came to see Linda. The boys began to point their fingers at him. In the strange other words they said that Linda was bad; they called her names he did not understand, but that he knew were bad names. chapter 8 people in the savage world think linda is slut. chandler b

"And yet John was a great comfort to me." She means that eveb though she thought the Indians having kids was disgusting, she liked having John around. (Derek M)
 * Speech:** What does the character say? How does the character speak?


 * "Pope!" she murmured and closed her eyes. " oh i do so like it, i do....." this means that she wanted her mom before she died. (TD) (i hear by give mike permition to use this information.)
 * "Though it wasn't my fault, I swear; because I still don't know how it happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian Drill–you know, by numbers, One, two, three, four, always, I swear it.
 * Linda is telling us that John wasn't her fault so it had to be the man that she was see. Ch 7 (IMEveritt)

"I'm not your mother. I won't be your mother." she gets mad because mother is a swear and shes nein called one. chpt 8 (John A)
 * · "But I'm Linda, I'm Linda."' The laughter drowned her voice. "You made me have a baby," she screamed above the uproar. There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look. The Director went suddenly pale, stopped struggling and stood, his hands on her wrists, staring down at her, horrified. "Yes, a baby–and I was its mother." Chapter 10 The dictor had a baby with this women and he was scared when everyone found out(mike M)

Thoughts: **What is revealed through the character's private thoughts and feelings?**
 * If you knew how glade-after all theses years!A civilized face.(chapter7)Linda miss the new world.(pearl.j)


 * Effect on others: What is revealed through the character's effect on other people? How do characters feel or behave in reaction to the character? **

"There was a gasp, a murmer of astonishment and horror, a young girl screamed; standing on a chair to get a better view someone upset two test tubes full of spermatozoa."(p.150) People are completely discusted at the site of Linda.(Anthony Marchione)

this show that she gets upset that she cant go back to the "civilized" world and takes her anger out on the person tah happens to be there. (Murphy)
 * Actions:** What does the character do? How does the character behave
 * "He pressed himself against her. He put his arm round her neck. Linda cried out. "Oh, be careful. My shoulder! Oh!" and she pushed him away, hard. His head banged against the wall. "Little idiot!" she shouted; and then, suddenly, she began to slap him. Slap, slap … "


 * "Oh, my dear, my dear." The torrent of words flowed sobbingly. "If you knew how glad- after all these years! A civilized face."
 * Linda was so excited to see Lenina and Bernard from the New World because it has been such a long time and she was left there with no choice to go back to the New World. [(chapt. 7, pg. 119)(Andrea!)]
 * "'Tomakin!' she ran forward, her blanket trailing behind her, threw her arms round his neck, hid her face in his chest."(chap. 10 pg. 150) --shows how much she missed him and the "civilized" world. 
 * She takes a soma hoilday and dies. tom rims
 * //"You made me have a baby," she says this to the director, she had john. In the new world it is wrong to have children from birth. (pfeil)//
 * //" Linda". He cried out "Oh mother, don't!" "I'm not your mother. I won't be your mother." "But Linda...Oh!" She slapped him on the cheek. She acted aggressive towards John because mother is a bad word to her. (K Scott)//

How does the character dress?
 * So fat. And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. And the sagging cheeks, with those purplish blotches. And the red veins on her nose, the bloodshot eyes. And that neck–that neck; and the blanket she wore over her head–ragged and filthy. And under the brown sack-shaped tunic those enormous breasts, the bulge of the stomach, the hips. (John)
 * "Linda looked on, vaguely and uncomprehendingly smiling. Her pale, bloated face was an expression of imbecile happiness."(chp14). That quote summed up how Linda always seemed to look all the time. Her physical features werent too good, but she was always happy.(Ray)