Brave New World #3 Family Issues

"No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells (BNW, page 37)".

I am not the most easy-going person. I get angry very easily, and I am extremely defensive. It is because of this personality "flaw" that makes me detest this society even more. I have a huge family, and they are all the coolest people I know. I love them more than anything, and I have NEVER ONCE wished to be in a smaller family. I greatly appreciate my mother's care and love, and this chapter TICKED ME OFF!!! In what I believe is an attempt to instill fear into the students, the Controller tells the students of a time when many many people were crammed into a small space. "No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells." It's almost comical how the Controller misconstrues typical family characteristics to make them seem hellish. Understerilized: obviously! Anywhere a human touches becomes "understerilized". Disease: this makes me think of when my family got chicken pox. My brother Matt came home and told my mom a kid in his class got chicken pox. My mom proceeded to ask where said boy sat: right next to Matt. The next three weeks were some of the darkest I'm sure my parents have seen. A rare side effect of Benadryl is "excitability", and I was a rare child. However, there has yet to be another such dire time, and the benefits of a large family greatly outweigh those three weeks. This section infuriated me.