Conditioning of babies

In the second Chapter of Brave New World, a book written by Aldous Huxley, the students are being showed how the 8 month babies are being attracted to shiny book and flowers. The babies once they saw the shiny book and flowers began to crawl to the shining objects. Then suddenly the Director gives the signal to scare the babies away from the books. So “The Head Nurse, who was standing by a switch board at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever.” “There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked... The children started, screamed, their faces were distorted with terror.”(pg 21)

Here the author explains how the babies are being conditioned to be sacred of books, so when they grow up the will not be attracted to books. This will prohibit them from reading and acquiring knowledge. This passage relates to this certain book I read called A Long Way Gone. The reason I think they are similar is because in A Long Way Gone the children are also conditioned at an early age. The children are taken from their families are condition to hate humans. The children have to grab revolvers and begin to shot at people. No matter what person it is they are just trained to kill. Once these children grow up they will become like killers machines because that is the only thing they know how to do.