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“First review, I am currently on page 105. Brave New World once again depicts a very possible dystopia where identical human beings are cloned and used for specific purposes in society. For example, the clones in the Alpha caste are destined to be leaders while those in the Epsilon caste are...”

“First review, I am currently on page 105. Brave New World once again depicts a very possible dystopia where identical human beings are cloned and used for specific purposes in society. For example, the clones in the Alpha caste are destined to be leaders while those in the Epsilon caste are purposely "stupidified" to be induced into inhumane labor. I found the "raising" of the clones to be absolutely horrid, for example the sexual activities done on children on the Delta caste I believe, this event followed the "Unconsciousness Teaching" done on the Delta children, thus assuming this same event occurred to the same caste. What's more horrifying is the idea that this place is toured by boys, and I'm assuming and pretty sure that in this dystopia the events that take place are rather common. Makes once think whether there is a link with the events taken in the Hatchery in Huxley's dystopia and those that take place today in slaughterhouses and places similar. Portraying to the characters, I still quite not understand the relationships between the characters, more importantly the one's between Lenina and Henry Foster, her boyfriend, and Lenina and Bernard. Especially after Lenina agreed to go to New Mexico with Bernard Marx during the holidays. Makes me wonder if this will cause any tension between Foster and Bernard and if any events will occur during the holiday to jeopardize Lenina's and Bernard's relationship.”

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“I am currently on page 103 and the book is good so far. The story focuses on the life of a "fireman" named Guy Montag. His job is specifically to burn books in the distorted utopia in which he lives in. It is quite fascinating the world that Bradbury has created back in 1951 when he first...”

“I am currently on page 103 and the book is good so far. The story focuses on the life of a "fireman" named Guy Montag. His job is specifically to burn books in the distorted utopia in which he lives in. It is quite fascinating the world that Bradbury has created back in 1951 when he first published and how our own world is becoming somehow similar to his world. It is both fascinating and fearsome thinking of it. Besides that, I also enjoy the turn of events for Montag as certain events in his life has an effect on him and how he changes his ways, despite it being against the laws of the city. I am looking forward to what will happen to Montag because of his decision and whether he will get caught or not.

I always wanted to read this and have heard a lot about it, which is why I decided to pick up this book and read it. All my peers have told me that this book is outstanding and that it will leave you hooked the second you read it. After finishing the book, I can not describe the book in any other way. Hamilton did a great job in depicting the personal struggles of Montag throughout the story as he progressed from one end of the scale to the other: a fireman (a destroyer of books) to a "scholar" of books, from working for the government to going completely against it and become a rebel.
The truth behind the banning and destruction of books in this ghastly future depicted by Hamilton is horrendous, but makes me wonder and sadly realize that there is a possibility for this to happen as people today are slowly moving away from books and relying only on television. Not only that, but governments love the idea of "control", which can be seen in Bradbury's dystopia described in this novel, where the government wants its population to "digest" only the information they want to. In other words, they want to control what the people know and believe in. The destruction of books prevent that, as books contain the ideology of "free-thinking" that was seen years before the rise of the government seen in this dystopia. Again, this is one of those books which shows a dystopia that makes the reader wonder wether it's possible for our world to slowly become this atrocious city as one is able to see a government's unending quench for total control.”

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