Tuesday

Combine each of the following into one sentence.

1) The bear was big. The bear broke open the garbage. The bear ate the left over pizza. Dan's father shot the bear. Dan cried.

2) Espionage is the secret collection of intelligent information. The history of espionage goes back over two thousand years. Espionage was started in China by Sun Tzu.

For the following correct the punctuation:


Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, where ever they are needed in the following sentences.

1. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

2. Only one course was open to us surrender, said the ex-major, and we did.

3. Judge Carswell later to be nominated for the Supreme Court had ruled against civil rights.

4. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article How Not to Go Camping.

5. Yes, Jim said, I'll be home by ten.

Example of Reading Log (from Jenny Hansen's blog)

Summery: Bernard rushes to the Solidarity Service, and is late.  He goes into a room with twelve chairs.  Three of them were empty.  He goes to the nearest one, and then gets angry at himself because he got into the chair next to Morgana Rothschild, who had a unibrow.  The other two people came in a little later and they started the service.  They starting playing music and the president started passing soma ice cream around for everyone to have.  Then they started singing a hymn to Ford.  They sang eight stanzas, and then the president started passing the loving cup around for everyone to drink from.  Then they sang the last four stanzas.  After they were finished singing a voice came from the ceiling and said, "The feet of the Greater Being are on the stairs."  Then everyone in the room started saying, "I hear him!  He is coming."  They started dancing around as they sang a song called "Orgy-Porgy."  Bernard sang and danced along, but he didn't hear anything and felt miserable.  They sang it over and over until the dancers had stopped and the service was ended.  After the service, Morgana asked Bernard if he had a wonderful time at the service.  Bernard lied and said, "Yes."

Importance: This section shows again that Bernard is an outsider to the society.  He doesn't like soma, his physical appearance isn't what it should be for his class, and he doesn't get anything out of the service, where all of the other people in the room were super happy after it.  He felt miserable and separated.  This also shows another way the government is controlling the people.  They are taking religion completely out of society except for this weird version.  This is because the government doesn't want people coming together in close relationships.  They have taken all close relationships out of the equations.  They have gotten rid of families, marriage, and religion.  Basically, everything that would bring people together.  Also this section shows how childish everyone in this world is because there is no responsibility.

Literary Devices

• Allusion - When Bernard is heading to the ceremony he passes Big Henry, the clock.  This alludes to Big Ben, the clock in London.  The name is changed for this book because it is referring to Henry Ford, who is very important to the people in this book.
• Allusion - The whole ceremony that Bernard goes to is an allusion to communion.  When Bernard gets into the room for the ceremony there are twelve chairs for people there to sit in.  This is an allusion to the twelve disciples.  When they pass the soma ice cream around, it symbolizes the bread at the Last Supper.  This is the same for the loving cup that is passed around.  It symbolizes the wine at the Last Supper.  This allusion reinforces the idea that this is a religious ceremony.
• Morgana Rothschild - This is an allusion to Fata Morgana or Morgan Le Fay.  This was a girl who was against King Arthur and made life difficult for him.  I think this might give a picture of what her character is like.  She also has a unibrow when Alphas are supposed to be perfect.  This shows that there is some limit control from the government.
• Clara Deterding - This is an allusion to Clara Ford and Henri Deterding, who was the founder of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company.  In doing that he purchased Azerbaijan oil fields from a family whose family name was Rothschild.  Later in his life he began to support the German Nazi Party.  This goes along with the general trend of allusions in this book.  Most of the allusions alludes to big world powers that ruled by fear, but ultimately failed in the end.  
• Sarojini Engels - This is an allusion to Friedrich Engels and Sarojini.  Friedrich Engels is alluded to because he help write the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, which is what Bernard Marx alludes to.  This may be a foreshadow to what happens later in the book.  This also follows the general trend of allusion.  Sarojini Naidu was a freedom fighter for India.  I am not sure what this means in relation to the book.
• Jim Bokanovsky - I think this alludes to Maurice Bokanovsky, the same thing that the Bokanovsky Process alludes to.  He was wanted the government to be more efficient.  
• Herbert Bakunin - This name alludes to Mikhail Bakunin and George Herbert.  Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian that one of the founders of social anarchism.  Anarchism is the belief in abolishing all government and be self governed.  At first glance, you might think this is the type of system they have in the book, but after reading me you find out that the government is still there, but it is just controlling everything to they don't have to do anything to keep people in line.  George Herbert was a Welsh Priest.  He wrote many hymns.  This again reinforces the idea of religion in this section.
• Allusion - The last song that they sing is called "Orgy-Porgy."  It says, "Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, kiss the girls and make them One.  Boys at one with the girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release."  This is an allusion to the children' song "Georgie Porgie."  This song says, "Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry; when the boys came out to play, Georgie Porgie ran away."  This shows that everyone in this book acts like children because there is no responsibility.

Unknown Vocabulary

• Galvanic - adj.  relating or involving electric currents.
• Liturgical - adj.  relating to public worship.
• Foetal - adj.  variation in spelling from the word "fetal."
• Benevolently - adv.  well meaning and kindly.