We all seek a Utopia. We all want that perfect world with complete happiness, peace and harmony where everybody is content. There are plenty of Dystopian type novels and books out there. The Giver, Divergent, 1984... and dictators such as Hitler even tried to accomplish a Utopia in real life.
It never works.
In Aldous Huxley's classic Brave New World, his version of the perfect world is basically manufacturing identical twins and then their behavior is conditioned into them at the earliest stages of their development. Everybody is happy. Everybody is content. Everybody is the same because they don't know any better. There are no mothers or fathers or brothers or sisters... they all have their assignments.
On the reservation they still do things the old way. That is... they have babies. There are mother's and fathers and children are raised by their parents.
Bernard visits the reservation and starts to question the order of things.
This book was written in 1931 or at least published in 1931. It doesn't have the exciting revolution or war like in Divergent but it does bring to question the set standards of how their society lives their lives. I think questioning the leaders and the people who dictate the rules and laws and the way we do things is the first step to changing things that might not be proper.
I won't lie. I felt like i was missing a lot of stuff. I had a hard time following it sometimes. I was listening to it rather than reading it and that might have been some of my problem but usually i don't have a really difficult time following an audiobook. It might have been the language or the accent of the reader or that the style of writing was a little bit different than what i'm accustomed to. But i had to rewind it alot and re-listen to it and i still felt i was missing stuff. Maybe i;m just a little slow.
However, I really enjoyed this book and it made me think and I would recommend it.
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