Foster's Main Idea In The Chapter Of 'Brave New World'

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Foster's main idea in this chapter of How to read literature like a professor is that in literature world the word sex can mean so many things such as lost of innocent, purity and sometimes it doesn't even mean sex. Foster gave example of this couple, “Sarah is the future, the twentieth century, for which Charles may be not ready”. Pg.154 The connection between Brave New World by Huxley, and Foster’s main idea is the couples that have in common between sarah and Charles with John and Lenina. John and Lenina are completely the opposite from each other however Lenina stars to fall in love with him, "Perhaps it's because he doesn't like me," she said to herself. And at once this possibility became an established certainty: John had refused

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