Real+World+Connections

=Real World Connections= What are some questions, situations, characters, etc. from the novel that relate to what we see happening or what we have seen happen in our world. Identify something in the novel, give evidence and then explain how it links to our world now. BONUS: find a link to something on the Internet that demonstrates that connection: a video, an article, a website, a picture, etc. Please make sure that your link is school appropriate.

In the novel, the genetically engineer the people and predetermine their caste. In the real world, we are attempting to genetically engineer people. We have succeeded in creating cloned animals, but nothing more. (Marshall)

In __Brave New World__ people are created; made in incubators, born, raised in their seperate castes, and conditioned. They are taught that things like family, mother, and father, are smutty words. In our world woman get pregnant, have their babies, and raise them the best they know how with love. We don't learn that family mother or father are bad words, we know the words and expierence them. Also in the book people think love means the person saying "i love you" means they want to have sex with them. In the real world when someone says "i love you" its a feeling of affection and said to someone you care a lot about, have feelings for. 

In the book babies were made in incubators and not borned naturally. This is almost seen in this world by people using fertiled clincs and also frozen embryo transfer thats are already created.(Mike M)[]/

 After the 9 years war in the book, the new government started to enforce their believes. They did this by cutting the top off all of the cross to make it a T for the model. This is similar to the fall of the U.S.S.R., after the fall of the U.S.S.R. the citizen started to tear down some of the old soviet stuff like the [|Berlin Wall.] (IMEveritt)

In Brave New World they made stupid babies and they were really big and they were told to work in harder jobs and in todays world they use sertian animals to do spacific jobs. (TD)
 * "But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time. Every //soma//-holiday is a bit of what our ancestors used to call eternity." chapter 11 soma is a drug that makes you happy prozac is our drug that people take to be happy.chandler b

In the novel brave new world they mention that everyone belongs to everyone and in our world maybe not usa but certain countries they follow this along with countries who people have multiple wives and there also is no reading in the brave new world only manuels and in some countries people are prohibited to read. (Johnny A)

In the 1930's sex was very uncommon for minors but as our society progressed we now see the age for sex going younger and younger, now in our society teens are having sex.(pfeil)

this is a connection that he tought would be a worst case senario and no tat all like what it came out to be. rommy tims

in this novel john was herassed at then end of it because he was diffrent we see this in our current world every day in magazines on the news in the paper. (pearl.j)

The way Lenina acts around people when she's a teen is just like the girls in the world today. Most teens don't care about a relationship as long as the guy/girl is "hot" then they think they have to go after that person. (K Scott)
 * Our word and the Brave New World have some of the same conditions. The USA is mostly free and can do what they want. Other places in the world arent so alike some places can marry many women and have as many as they want, this is just like the new world because everyone belongs to eneryone. (Andrea!)


 * in the world many people are slaves to alcoholand will do near anything to get more. " THE menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red headed female and seventy-eight dark dolychocephalic male twins, respectively. At six, when their working day was over, the two Groups assembled in the vestibule of the Hospital and were served by the Deputy Sub-Bursar with their //soma// ration."