Summery- In chapter 2, I learned that they have exterminated all languages but English so that the population is controlled in that respect. The babies are shocked and have many other types of "conditioning" so that they are set directly into what they need in their place in society. Then while sleeping, the kids are taught social skills through speakers under their pillows. Intellectual studies do not work because the kids don't understand what it means when they wake up. They turned Henry Ford into a god mainly for his invention of the assembly line. It is a reference in the story to the way the state creates kids through a medical assembly line with certain things being injected or changed environmentally, which determines how they develop as an embryo.
Vocab.- Viviparous - adj - bringing forth living young rather than eggs or something else
Hypnopaedia - N - The learning of lessons heard during sleep
Asafoetida - N - a bitter resin with an unpleasant onion-like smell
Lit elements- they refer to Henry Ford as god
Riley, much better. Can you discuss why the chapter is important?
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