What is the climax of this novel? What happens?How do the events of this novel make you feel?
The climax of the story is at the end of the novel, where Bernard is finally kicked out of the Society and John tries to persuade the new Director to stop what he’s doing and spread the truth. The Director calls Bernard, John the Savage, and Watson. Then, He explains that he is the one who created the rule of the Society and he is allowed to break them. However, he tells Bernard that others in the Society are to obey the rules and orders people to send Bernard to somewhere else. Bernard struggles and begs to the Director to give him one more chance but he’s forced out of the Director’s room. Then, the Director turns to John and starts to talk about the Truth of why the Society was formed. The Director, from the safe, takes out the Bible and other books such as Shakespeare that hold the Truth to meaning of life. He tells John that he read the books and exactly understands the content of the books. Stunned by what the Director said, John asks why he locked everyone from the Truth and the Director says that there are many factors that make the world unstable. He tells John that in order to form the perfect world, or the utopia, that the factors must be erased. The Society is the only way to erase the factors, the Director tells John. John tries to make the Director change his mind and tries to convince that the people will be lifeless. Then, the Director calmly fights back against John by arguing that if he does allow the people to know the Truth, then everything will be ruined including the utopia.
This event is very interesting to me because I like the way how the author described the argument and how carefully he wrote the struggle between knowing the Truth and denying the Truth. John thinks that humans need to know the Truth and the Director thinks that the people will lose the ‘freedom’ given by the Society if Truth is exposed. In the end, John fails to convince the Director but at he doesn’t allow himself to be merged by the Society.
The climax of the story is at the end of the novel, where Bernard is finally kicked out of the Society and John tries to persuade the new Director to stop what he’s doing and spread the truth. The Director calls Bernard, John the Savage, and Watson. Then, He explains that he is the one who created the rule of the Society and he is allowed to break them. However, he tells Bernard that others in the Society are to obey the rules and orders people to send Bernard to somewhere else. Bernard struggles and begs to the Director to give him one more chance but he’s forced out of the Director’s room. Then, the Director turns to John and starts to talk about the Truth of why the Society was formed. The Director, from the safe, takes out the Bible and other books such as Shakespeare that hold the Truth to meaning of life. He tells John that he read the books and exactly understands the content of the books. Stunned by what the Director said, John asks why he locked everyone from the Truth and the Director says that there are many factors that make the world unstable. He tells John that in order to form the perfect world, or the utopia, that the factors must be erased. The Society is the only way to erase the factors, the Director tells John. John tries to make the Director change his mind and tries to convince that the people will be lifeless. Then, the Director calmly fights back against John by arguing that if he does allow the people to know the Truth, then everything will be ruined including the utopia.
This event is very interesting to me because I like the way how the author described the argument and how carefully he wrote the struggle between knowing the Truth and denying the Truth. John thinks that humans need to know the Truth and the Director thinks that the people will lose the ‘freedom’ given by the Society if Truth is exposed. In the end, John fails to convince the Director but at he doesn’t allow himself to be merged by the Society.
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This book makes me wonder what the words 'freedom' and 'utopia' mean in this book. The Bible and Shakespear's work was big part of the beauty of the world. It was part of what made the world somewhat 'free'. It's hard to understand why these books were locked away if the target they were shooting for was an incredibly beautiful utopia.
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