Tyler Million - Outside reading #1

One of my outside readings this semester was Brave New World by Aldus Huxley. This is a great science fiction novel from the 1930s. In the book Huxley describes a future world where all major civilizations have adopted cloning as the sole means of reproduction. Through the cloning process have developed a caste system where ones place in the world is decided well before they are “born”. The conflict comes from when the main character visits the wilderness reserve around their city and ends up adopting a “savage” boy who was born and raised in the wild. The book shows a great sense of wilderness as a sacred place, this boy becomes a beacon for purity as he sees how corrupt society has become. He then returns to the wild to escape all of the awful things society tried to enforce upon him. It is a very good book with a lot of interesting ideas on society and wilderness as a sacred place.