C.I.S.

"He quoted the planetary motto." 'Community, Identity, Stability'. Grand words."(pg.7)

These 3 factors represents the major occupation of todays society. While reading definitions I noticed that they relate to one another. They also apply to our organization of society.

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Community

The community in todays world work together to better one another. I see this similarity within the book. Everyone has a specific job to do within the different meters of the facility and they all work together to get the job done. In real life we complete this task all the time by coming together and working as a team. Here at Chinquapin we display those same qualities. We all work together in the garden and around the school to perform "mass production", so that we can get the task done quicker. Interact is a perfect example of how the community should come together and try to better the neighborhoods in our local towns.

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Identity

When people say identity, I automatically think about people having a certain description of themselves. In the book they picture identity as your rank or class, not your own personal style. From the Alphas to the Epsilons they have specific duties to portray. The Alphas are predicted to be "future Directors of Hatcheries"(pg.13) while the Epsilons are thrown to the side left to become "future sewage workers"(pg.13), said Mr. Foster. This makes me think about the different types of classes that people are labeled such as: high class, middle class, and low class. In America, the wealthy people are "suppose" to be our future leaders while the middle class work common jobs. The low class that portrays the Epsilons in Huxley's book are suppose to be poor and uneducated in some cases. I see the resemblance with the real world connection the way that Huxley describes the different caste.

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Stability

In the book they think of stability as having their people being content and happy, but in the real world it carries a different meaning. For example, we try to have stable lives and a stable government. I noticed that the students here at Chinquapin are stable at school. We do the same thing everyday. We go from class to class and get different homework assignments. In the USA we have a stable government that is not going to change. We have had the same government for over 150 years. Although the things that us humans do are not always stable we do try to maintain stability as much as possible. This shows that we have organization and control over our own lives.

Communities Can't Be Perfect

" 'Offer them the flowers and the books again.' The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the rosed, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-adoodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased."(Huxley 21)

Well to start, we have instincts that tell us not do something like stick your finger in a cup of boiling water. And after the many mistakes that we make, we learn that we shouldn't do those things anymore. And that is exactly what the people in Brave New World are doing, they are shocking the babies to show them that they shouldn't go near the books, flowers, or make loud noises. But do I think the reason they are doing it is right? I'm still thinking about that. I mean, we are always saying that we want things to be fair and stable, and in the book its actually happening and I find it a little bit harsh.
The motto of the community in the book is “Community. Identity. Stability.” And well I don't know about my other classmates, but I find it weird. I really don't like it that they torture the babies. And I wouldn't like for everyone to be the same, because being different is what make you, you. I do believe that discipline is ok to do but these babies aren't doing anything wrong. They are just trying to show them what not to do because they want to keep information from them. They don't want people's identities to be different. They want everyone the same so in order to do this they keep information and history from everyone. They do this so the people don't have questions about anything. Curiosity isn't allowed in this community.