First Quarter SSR Book

The book I decided to read was Brave New World by Aldous Huxley which is a 259-page book and the reason I decided to read this book was that I had bought it the previous year in order to read it for English but I didn't and therefore I read it for my first quarter book. The book takes place in the future in a utopian society where people are forced to take soma pills which are made to suppress every feeling other than happiness. The main character in the book is Bernard Marx and he is not at all like the others as he is more aware of what's going on since he doesn't like taking the soma pills. Although his ideology is different than the others in the book, they are more normal to the readers like us and that's why I felt some sort of connection to Bernard. Most characters are static but Bernard is a dynamic character because, at the beginning of the book, it is evident that Bernard does not like his home but later, he views his home with different eyes after meeting someone in a much different society than the one he lives in. Also, when the book starts off, Bernard does not feel comfortable with the way they are living in this civilized society where they take pills called “soma” to suppress every feeling other than happiness. Towards the end of the book, he begins to change and starts behaving like the rest almost without questioning or rejecting anything anymore along with taking soma pills voluntarily. I sort of regret not reading this book last year as it was a very interesting one since it takes place in a very different setting than the 1930’s when this book was written and the present times.

Javier Esparza