Brave New World Chapters 4 - 6

1) Brenard and Hemholtz are both alpha plus. however, Brenard is considered much uglier than Hemholtz, and Hemholtz is much less socially awkward.

2) the solidarity service is an odd meeting of ford-warship, followed by an orgy. they recite hymns and chants about ford, and then have an orgy. Brenard reluctantly participates.

3) Brenard likes silence, but Lenina does not. she gets scared, and turns on the radio, where it seems that a radio host is about to say that skies are always blue here. this could mean that somehow, the people of this time engineer a way to keep weather good, and never make it rainy, snowy, etc. it could also relate to a line later in the chapter "everyone's happy nowadays" and mean a more metaphoric term for blue skies. so anyways, brenard explains that silence makes him feel himself. lenina does not agree, and makes brenard leave. they return to his "rooms" or apartments, i assume, and have sex.

4) the director took a woman to the reservation twenty years ago, and she was lost in a storm and never heard of again. i predict that we will meet up with this character, or her death/disappearance will be more significant later in the plot.

5) the director threatens to exile Brenard to Iceland.