The+Savage+Reservation

=**The Savage Reservation**= Setting in this novel is VERY important. You need to examine the setting AND its influence on characters. For each of the following areas, gather information and then for the explanation show how it impacts the characters.


 * Physical:** Describe the physical aspects of the setting
 * T HE MESA was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust. The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green-the river and its fields. On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais. Block above block, each story smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky. At their feet lay a straggle of low buildings, a criss-cross of walls; and on three sides the precipices fell sheer into the plain. A few columns of smoke mounted perpendicularly into the windless air and were lost.


 * This is a description of the surrarounding area that Bernard and Lenina are in Ch 7 (IMEveritt)

They stepped across the threshold and found themselves on a wide terrace. Below them, shut in by the tall houses, was the village square, crowded with Indians. Bright blankets, and feathers in black hair, and the glint of turquoise, and dark skins shining with heat. Lenina put her handkerchief to her nose again. In the open space at the centre of the square were two circular platforms of masonry and trampled clay–the roofs, it was evident, of underground chambers; for in the centre of each platform was an open hatchway, with a ladder emerging from the lower darkness. A sound of subterranean flute playing came up and was almost lost in the steady remorseless persistence of the drums. Chpt7 (John A)

Its dark with dark people and native rituals with diifrent customs. pg 117 rommy tims
 * When they were half-way up, an eagle flew past so close to them that the wind of his wings blew chill on their faces. In a crevice of the rock lay a pile of bones. It was all oppressively queer, and the Indian smelt stronger and stronger. They emerged at last from the ravine into the full sunlight. The top of the mesa was a flat deck of stone. chapter seven different from this world because there is more of a wild life than the one they live in. chandler b
 * Lenina and Benard witness a mother nursing a baby and Lenina is disgusted because being a mother is wrong in her eyes. chapter 7 (K Scott)


 * · Customs: Describe the habits, social practices as a collective group  **


 * "Slowly, the boy began to walk round the writhing heap of snakes. He had completed the first circuit and was half-way through the second when, from among the dancers, a tall man wearing the mask of a coyote and holding in his hand a whip of plaited leather, advanced towards him. The boy moved on as though unaware of the other's existence. The coyote-man raised his whip, there was a long moment of expectancy, then a swift movement, the whistle of the lash and its loud flat-sounding impact on the flesh. The boy's body quivered; but he made no sound, he walked on at the same slow, steady pace. The coyote struck again, again; and at every blow at first a gasp, and then a deep groan went up from the crowd. The boy walked. Twice, thrice, four times round he went. The blood was streaming. Five times round, six times round. Suddenly Lenina covered her face shish her hands and began to sob. "Oh, stop them, stop them!" she implored. But the whip fell and fell inexorably. Seven times round. Then all at once the boy staggered and, still without a sound, pitched forward on to his face. Bending over him, the old man touched his back with a long white feather, held it up for a moment, crimson, for the people to see then shook it thrice over the snakes. A few drops fell, and suddenly the drums broke out again into a panic of hurrying notes; there was a great shout. The dancers rushed forward, picked up the snakes and ran out of the square. Men, women, children, all the crowd ran after them. A minute later the square was empty, only the boy remained, prone where he had fallen, quite still." The whipping is when i young boy becomes a man in thier life.Chapter 7 (mike m)
 * "They said those men are their men." says Linda
 * Linda didn't understand why the women in the reservation only slept with one men. Its the way they live and its right to them not like the New World(Andrea!)

The savage reservation is ruled by elders and they organize who is accepted as a man.(Marshall)
 * Political:** Describe the structure of the government or governing powers

outsiders like john, and linda are not excepted they are discluded from practices like becomeing a man.(pearl.j)(chapter8)


 * Laws**: Describe the rules that govern the society


 * if you wanted to get married yu had to get a relationship and you did not have to have sex like new world. (TD)
 * not allowed to leave, if someone touches the surrounding fences they will get shocked to death. --" 'To touch the fence is instant death,' pronounced the Warden solemnly." (chap. 6) 

the dirt of uncivilization scares lenina becauce of her conditioning for the modern which is completely different. (Murphy)
 * Living Conditions**: Describe the day to day aspects such as health, work, education, etc.
 * The dirt, to start with, the piles of rubbish, the dust, the dogs, the flies. Her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust. She held her handkerchief to her nose."But how can they live like this?" she broke out in a voice of indignant incredulity.