BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 7 ]---|>

CHAPTER SEVEN
Summary: Inside the Reservation, Lenina and Bernard watch an old Native American/Savage ritual. Lenina is pleased with the music, the drums reminding her of a Ford's Day celebration or a Solidarity Service. Soon, she gets disgusted when the music hastens and a young man is brought out and whipped for a sacrifice. Lenina pleads for Bernard to stop them, but he really is unable to do anything, being an outsider to the Reservation. Once it is all over, the boy lies dead in the field, Lenina horrified. After the ritual, a young Indian comes towards them, however speaks English surprisingly well. He begins to rant about how he should've been the one to have been sacrificed, for he would've drawn a lot more blood. He then sees Lenina, one of the first attractive women that he has seen without dirt covering her face. He gets nervous, and soon takes Bernard back to the pueblo where he lives.
       When they arrive, Lenina gets freaked out by a disgusting, fat, unbathed, grotesque woman who the young savage (John) calls his mother. She then hugs Lenina and grows eccentric to see someone from the civilized State. Once introductions are made, she tells the tale of how she came to the reservation and had had a contraceptive malfunction allowing her to give birth to John. (Lenina shudders at this.)


Literary Elements:
Symbolic of Society:
"I hate walking. And you feel so small when you're on the ground at the bottom of a hill."

Irony:
Lenina shuddering whenever Linda says anything pertaining to  a 'mother'. As mothers are such disgusting creatures in the New World society.

Bernard asking Lenina if she felt anything like a missed opportunity in not being a mother, and Lenina gets disgusted.

Why Chapter is Important: The life of a Savage in the reservation is detailed in this chapter alonng with descriptions of the setting. The disgust that Lenina feels for the Reservation contrasts the 'prefect' world that everyone is supposed to believe is Paradise. Even though there is no freedom there, it is the essential happiness of it all that sets apart New Mexico from the London Hatchery.

We also meet John and Linda in the chapter, and it appears that Linda is the woman that the Director was telling Bernard about in Chapter 6 Part II. She did not die however, she had a mishap with her contraceptives and could'nt get an abortion and had a child. (John)