CHAPTER SIX
Part 1 Summary: Lenina can't get over how odd Bernard is. She struggles with the decision on whether to stick with Bernard and go to the Savage Reservation, or head up to the North Pole with Benito Hoover. However, she had already been to the North Pole before, and didn't really have a good time, besides, she hadn't been to America but once, so she sticks with her original plan.
She then tries to get Bernard to do something with her. Swimming and a dinner? No, Bernard thinks there will be too many people there. Electro-Magnetic Golf? No, that's a waste of time. Then, somehow Lenina convinces him to watch a Wrestling match with her. Bernard is pressured by Lenina to take some soma but Bernard refuses, even when he stops the helicopter to think. After some troubling words (in Lenina's perspective) he takes some soma and Lenina and Bernard fly to Lenina's house to have sex. (Which Bernard regrets the next day.)
Part 2 Summary: Bernard goes to talk to the Director about getting a permit to take himself and Lenina to the New Mexico Savage Reservation. The Director is uneasy, and tells Bernard of when he took a girl there once twenty years ago. In a very long story, he tells Bernard of the girl going missing without being found by search troupes. He even reveals that he has had recurring nightmares about her even to that day. He then forbids Bernard to go due to reports of outlandish behaviour, and if he doesn't present himself as a respectable Alpha, he will be exiled to a Sub-Centre in Iceland. Bernard leaves the office feeling like a rebel and goes back to tell Helmholtz of the ordeal. Much like when Bernard told him of Lenina and his plans to go to New Mexico, Helmholtz shows no interest in Bernards boastful rebellious act.
Part 3 Summary: Bernard and Lenina are on a rocket and fly to Sante Fe where they stay in a hotel overnight. Lenina is thrilled due to the sheer amount of amenities that the Hotel has to offer. She loves it and wishes that they could stay here, although Bernard takes this literally and says that she has the choice to stay while he goes alone to the Reservation. She is somewhat offended, and is of course going. Later, they need to the signature of the Reservation Warden for the permit. They find him, and he goes on to Lenina about useless facts and trivia about the Reservation. Bernard then realizes he left his Eau de Cologne tap on in his bathroom which will be a heavy price to pay when he gets back to London. He is eagar to phone Helmholtz, but the Warden won't shut up about the reservation. He talks and talks and talks and talks and talks and talks until he can break away for a short moment. He gets to the phone and Helmholtz picks up. He tells him to turn off the scent tap, but Helmholtz has some news for Bernard as well. The Director is looking for someone to replace him. He also said, in public, that he was going to be exiled to the Sub-Centre in Iceland. He gets depressed yet again because at first he had thought nothing of the Director's threat. Now that it was coming true, he was really appalled. Lenina gives him a couple grammes of soma to cure his sadness. They then get inside a helicopter that will take them to a pueblo where they can be a part of one of the Savage rituals/dances. Then they fly over all of the New Mexican towns with Bernard asleep. Upon landing, Bernard wakes up and Lenina is taking suitcases out of the helicopter, and the Pilot reassures Lenina that the savages won't hurt them while they are vacationing.
Vocabulary:
Brachycephalic - (adj.) describing a head as broad as it is front to back as it is side to side.
Solecism - (n.) A breach of good manners or etiquette.
Literary Elements:
Allusion:
Jean-Jacques Habibullah ---> Names of several Afghanistan Kings/ Arabic for "Beloved of God."
George Edzel ---> George Engel; German anarchist
A gramme in time, saves nine ---> A Stitch in time saves Nine ---> an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Why Chapter is Important:
More insight to Bernard's individuality in Part 1; him despising most things that New World citizens usually do, when he stops the helicopter over the water just to think to himself, his uplifted mood when being considered a rebel.
Part 2 seems to be a big foreshadow of what may happen to Lenina at the Savage Reservation.
Bernard must get exiled to Iceland should he return to London. Inciting Event?!?
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