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Differences And Similarities Between Bernard And Lenina

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When Bernard and Lenina reach the reservation, Lenina is shocked by the horrible place, she finds the place strange, but she finds some similarities between the Indians’ pounding of the drums and with their Ford’s Day celebrations. Things get more disgust and frightening when she sees a ritual in which they suck blood from a child until he dies. When Lenina wants to eat her Soma to forget the bad views she saw, she realizes that she forgets them at the hotel. Lenina and Bernard met an Indian who speaks English; he informs them that the bloody ritual is for asking the gods for rain. He then tells them that he is not an Indian; he reveals to them that he is the son of the Beta girl who was lost when she visits Mexico with the director. He then introduces them to his mother, who is pleased to meet some civilized men after a long time; she then narrates to them her tragic story and how the …show more content…

He also suffers when his mother gets angry and when other women came and beat her because she sleeps with their men. He also tells him how he was the subject of his mother to shout at when she gets angry because she did not want him. John feels different and superior from other children of the village because he learns to read from his mother. John tells Bernard how he is fascinated about their brave world where everyone belongs to everyone and many other things that he happened to hear stories from his mother. John gets excited when he is asked by Bernard to go with him back to the civilization, John accepts and wants his mother to go too. Bernard has a hidden reason behind asking to take him back, which is embarrassing and take revenge from the director. John then asks Bernard if he is married to Lenina, but Bernard laughs and says

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