Pre-write cannot be posted due to a lack of a scanner at my house. I have a hard copy if needed.
Everyone expects different things in life. Some expect to lay low and go with the flow and others expect to defy gravity and actually do something. In the novel Brave New World by Adolus Huxley, Bernard Marx is unsatisfied with the world he lives in. he wants to make a difference. the change he makes ends up changing him for the bad.
Bernard goes to he Savage Reservation and finds a boy conceived by a woman who was left at the reservation long before. He takes the boy, John, and the mother back home and shows his peers his discovery. Bernard becomes famous and this causes him to change. the fame goes to his head and he goes from being shy and reserved to Mr. Popular and Mr. Conceded. He doesn't handle the fame well. the controlling surroundings he lives with doesn't held this change. Bernard also begins to speak his mind about the negativities of their world and it gets him into trouble. The Director the police and the soma distributors are all against him. he ends up getting sent to ice Land for disturbing the natural balance. The fame Bernard experiences for a short period of time immediately went to his head, he was no longer an outcast, but he lost his friends, his home and his job because of it all.
This aspect of the story is very minor. but it adds to the theme and meaning of the novel by teaching people to be thankful for what they have. Life was put that way for a reason. Just focusing on Bernard, John turned out to be a huge mistake. It basically ruined him. As for others, he had a slightly different impact but they were not effected in the same way.
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