1. What historical time period is being covered in this book?
The historical time period that this book covered was the year A.F. 632. It is a total computer age, where in this day and age babies are "artificially" produced and educated.
2. What is the geographical setting of this book?
This majority of this book takes place in London, England. It starts of in a hatching and conditioning laboratory for babies.
3. Summarize the book in 300-500 words.
The novel opens with the director of Hatcheries and Conditioning taking a group of students on a tour of the "Central London Hatching and Conditioning Center." The tour begins in the fertilizing room, where the students are shown the incubators. Then he shows them how each life is determined at birth in the bottling room and the process of using a mechanical process to produce babies. They show them how they use different methods to create equilibrium between the humans. They go outside and see little kids play simple sex games to show children that sex is not abnormal and wrong. When the tour is over Bernard Marx, an alpha worker at the center, and a girl named Lenina travel to Savage Reservation.
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