Basic Plot: This novel takes place in 632 AD. The government controls the population of Utopia, there are only test tube births and an artificial process of embryo multiplication. Marriage is prohibited. There are ten world controllers; these people control the government and all its projects. At the very beginning, students are given a guided group tour of the London Hatcheries. Two employees who work there are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne, they date too much and are discouraged by the state. So Fanny, Lenina's best friend, attacks her because of this. Lenina then meets Bernard Marx and likes him so much that she agrees to go on vacation with him to a wilderness reserve in New Mexico. It's a place where people are sent if they don't follow the laws of the utopian world. This is where problems start to arise and the director of the hatcheries, Tomakin, threatens to exile himself to Marx if he does not mend his ways, because he has become very outspoken. While on this reserve, Lenina and Bernard meet a savage, John, and his mother Linda. By talking with John and Linda, Bernard reconstructs their past. He discovers that Linda went to the reservation with Tomakin years ago and became pregnant; that's why Tomakin left her in the reserve never to see her again. Linda gave birth to John, thus breaking a law and never being able to enter Utopia again. Bernard and Lenina took Linda and John back to Utopia with permission from one of the World Controllers. When they arrive home, Bernard discovers that the hatchery directors are about to exile him, then Marx produces John and Linda who greet him as son and wife. Tomakin later resigned in disgrace. Bernard and a friend, Helmholtz Watson, help John get used to utopia and spend every day showing him the utopia. John becomes more and more disgusted and dismayed with each passing day. Meanwhile, Lenina has become romantically involved with John and made sexual advances toward him, which ruins his image of her as an object of worship, so he rejects her. Soon his mother died and John went berserk and tried to bring sanity to the utopians. A riot occurs and Bernard and Helmholtz are exiled, but John is ordered to stay put. John is determined to escape utopia and flees to a deserted place outside London. But utopia has arrived...... middle of paper...... book I felt both shock and disappointment. The ending shocked me, but I have to say it was my favorite part of the book and I really don't like the other parts of the book. I was disappointed that the book ended like this and so suddenly. Plus, I hoped and thought there would have been a happy ending, where John and Lenina would have ended up together, or the utopians would have changed their way of life. I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys reading science. fiction books about the future, because this book could be a possibility of what the future will be like. A science fiction book like this would also appeal to people who enjoy reading science fiction books, as it is a very technical and realistic novel, written by a descriptive author. By 1932, a lot was starting to happen nationally and around the world. In the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt had just been elected president. The outdoor theater opened with “Merrie England.” And in Germany, the first Nazis were beginning to act, with Adolf Hitler as their leader. These are just a few events that took place during the year 1932.