Chapter 2

1. What work does the conditioning do? Who gets conditioned? How does hypnopaedia work?
The 'Infant Nuseries, Neo-Pavloian Conditioning Rooms' are another aspect of the B. process which 'conditions' (trains) young borns to dislike or like specific objects like nature and books.
Hypnopaedic gets used by the government to avoid disagreement and differences between the classes.
2. Why condition the Deltas to hate nature but love outdoor sports?
As a result the lower castes now pay for transport and manufactured goods when they travel to the country for sport events.
3. How does time work in this book? History? Why does Ford say “History is Bunk?”
The time of this era is appearantly based on the experience during the first world war which affects the fantasy world being dark, unhuman and cold blooded. Technology is the 'religion' and Ford as one of the most famous inventor took the role of 'the main father of production' and time is based after his death. 
4. What are the various castes like, and why?
5. How do the students demonstrate their own conditioning?
The different classes demostrate their conditioning with showing loyality for their class and therefore disrespect and treat all classes below them as lower castes.

Brave New World

Chapter 1

1. Why is the first sentence strange? What does it set up?
The first sentence talks about the mertopolis london containing skyscraper with ridiculous quantities imcomparable with cities this era.
2. What is the meaning of the World State’s motto “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY?”
The world state presents a national and not individual leadership.
3. Why does the fertilizing room look so cold, when it is actually hot inside? What goes on there?
The fertilizing room is one of many facilities which comprise all the equipment needed creating human fetuses through sientific goals of the time. The progress provides the world with new workforces, but coldness appears because of the unhuman nearly robotic scientist playing 'god' and creating life.
4. Why do particulars “make for virtue and happiness,” while generalities “are intellectually necessary evils?”

5. How do people know who they are in this society?
People living in a era where 'social stability' is the highest social goal have to accept their given rules without questioning, because stubborn heads get unhesitating filtered out of the community and removed out of the civilization.
6. Why use the Bokanovsky process at all? How is it an instrument “of social stability?”
The Bokanovsky process is used as a principle to clone fetuses to create masses of scientific identical twins generating the most effecient workforce. These 'humans' live at the bottom of the society building the solid base of the world states society. Unable to rebel after lowering their EQ with

asphyxia in young age they are the perfect tool.

7. Why don’t the Epsilons “need human intelligence?”
Epsilons are used for the hardest physical work and get produced through the Bokanovsky process in thousends. Their work doesnt aquire any intelligence.

What makes me human?

If you would ask me the question what makes me human?

My first answer would be: I am human because my parents are, so I’m born as a human being, having since my first day all human rights from my country.

       < But I think since I am in this class Dr. Preston requires more… >

Bananas share biologically to 50% the same DNA as me does this make them human or me to a Banana??

NO, being human doesn’t only requires having a biological DNA.   The way each of us is entitled to run their own life; many things that we need to do in order to survive, describe us being humans.

Even spreaded out all over the world with different cultures, ways of thinking, dressing, ways of behaving and ways of living our lives, there is one thing which bounds us together WE MAKE MISTAKES.

 

Humans make mistakes and aren’t perfect; otherwise we would be gods. Mistakes connect us even when each one is unique; there is no one similar to the other one. We are specials; we all have different taste, likeness and hobbies. Laughing and loving are signs of being humans.

Catcher in the Rye Study Guide

 Chapter 1
1.What does Holden mean when he says that his brother D.B. is out in Hollywood "being a prostitute"?

D. B. has sold out to Hollywood, forsaking a career in serious literature for the wealth and fame of the movies.

Holden thinks that His brother D.B. prostitutes his talent with writing short stories for

Hollywood movies, but he admires his short stories anyway.


2.Where is Holden as the story begins?

Holden Caulfield writes his story from a rest home to which he has been sent for therapy.

3;5.Where and What is Prency Prep?

It is  a famous school he attended in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, whatever, Holden has been marred by his refusal to apply himself and he got kicked out after he failed 4 of 5 classes.

4.How did Holden let the fencing team down?

He forgot as manager the teams equipment in the subway, which forced everyone to leave early.

6.what kind of health does holden appear to be in?

Holden feels sorry for leaving the school and disappointing his teacher Spencer.

Chapter 2

1. "Old" Spencer is Holden’s history teacher at Pencey Prep, who unsuccessfully tries to shake Holden out of his academic apathy, and Holden visited him,because he knows that he is ill and of course for feeling sorry for his failing.

2.  Holden is mostly annoyed by Spencer, because of his bad conditioning caused by just being old...

3.  He hates the People and calls them "crooks", and explains that his school is sneaky based on getting money.

I'M HERE

After I moved my life from one spot to another ,I can now say I am happy, ready and motivated to tackle the thing and make up work I sadly had to drop!

Everything is Going to be Alright

 How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart;
the sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.

All Question for part 1

1. Describe the society (a fictional America) that Montag lives in. In what ways is it similar to, but more extreme than, our society? What signs are there that it is a “dystopia” (the opposite of a utopia, an ideal society)?
2. What makes Clarisse so special — so different from most people in her society? What qualities does Montag have that make him receptive to her influence?
3. Why do you think the mechanical hound has been programmed to react to Montag?
4. Why do you think the woman chooses to burn herself along with her books? Why does this have suc h a powerful effect on Montag — what does it mean to him?
5. What is the point of Bradbury’s description of the kind of television show that Mildred likes to watch (p. 44 - 46)? [“ sound and fury, signifying nothing”
6. What is shocking and disturbing about the way Montag finds out what happened to Clarisse? What does this tell us about Mildred and about their society?
7. Why does Montag get “sick” and try to avoid going to work?
8. What does the revelation that Montag has so many books hidden in his home tell us about him? Why do Montag’s hands seem to have a mind of their own — what does this actually mean?
9. What is Beatty’s explanation for the current state of their society?
10. What do you think of Mildred’s claim that she is happy, and why? How do you define happiness? Is being happy always the most important goal of life?
11. What events trigger Montag’s transformation from aloof, unthinking fireman to passionate, philosophical rebel?
12. Find three examples of foreshadowing in Part 1.
13. Like Hemingway, Bradbury sometimes writes in an elliptical style, giving us bits of information from which we must infer what is happening, what the characters are thinking and feeling. Find one example of this in Part 1.
14. Choose one paragraph or passage from Part 1 that is an example of Bradbury’s unusual writing style (e.g. p. 17/18, p. 24) and interpret its meaning.
15. What predictions might you make about later events in the story?