Throughout Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World the topic of family is thoroughly discussed as for its negative effects, going so far to consider it taboo. John the savage is the only character created through a conventional conception and raised by his mother for what is considered a traumatic childhood. While the concept of family is something that doesn’t get a second thought in our society, it certainly did in the World State and they even blamed it for being the root of many of the world’s problems. While families and childhoods are full of ups and downs and end up being what define ourselves. In my life, an abrupt event would forever define my life and those in my family. Even at the age of four, I knew that the unexpected death of my
