Entry of my choice

*Please choose one passage from the novel that is significant to you. Why is this passage meaningful? Please type it into one of our entries and comment on what you think about the passage.

"But do you lie being slaves?" the Savage was saying as they entered the Hospital. His face was flushed, his eyes bright with ardour and indignation. "Do you like being babies? Yes, babies. mewling and puking," he added, exasperated by their bestial stupidity into throwing insults at those he had come to save. The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity;they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. "Yes, puking!" he fairly shouted. Grief and remorse, compassion and duty- all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. "Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?" Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. "Don't you?" he repeated, but go no answer to his question. "Very well then," he went on grimly. "I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to or not." And pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area.

The passage is significant, because it's the last time John tried to fix or adjust to the new society. Solitude and perplexities finally ended up raging John. I think this is the turning point of John' attitude. After he was arrested, he decided to leave the society, and live byhimself. The passage also well described John's frustration toward people who rely on soma and who never knew love. By throwing boxes soma, John expressed his hatred toward the pills; the pills numbed his mother, people and the whole society. They have no guts to face any difficulties, and that's why John called them babies.