BNW Chapter 7

Whoa!....So the guy named "Tomakin" is actually the director (Thomas) and is revealed (or at least inferred to) as the Indian boy's father from natural conception?! Scandalous! kill me now. But in all sardonic sincerity this chapter is following up on the ante raised by chapter six as we learn not only more about the lives of Savages on the reservations but so to are given more insight into the characters. Lenina, for example, is directly characterized as a verifiable, stuck up, B**** for lack of a euphemism as she comments on the "abhorrent" appearance of the Indian youth's mother, Linda,  due to her natural physical maturity/age overtime (the woman is, as the Indian boy's mother obviously, inferred to also be the women lost 20 years ago in the sentimental tale recounted in chapter six previously. The story is getting only more interesting, no?) Another notable facet of this chapter is the sacrificial immolation of the boy in a "pit of serpents (snakes)". The icons of Christianity (the "man hanging on a cross") and what I presume, with the "soaring eagle", a reference to the fictionally fallen United States (which symbolizes freedom and individuality combating the uniform World State), speak to the relentless inquisition of anything deemed unsuitable to the tenets of Community, Identity, Stability. The punishment the Savages endure if practicing or even researching the civilizations/societies of the past is a cruel means of neo-pavlovian conditioning as the savages are trained to despise what the world state identifies as "Paganism" not unlike the Columbus missionaries invading the Americas and forcing upon their beliefs, punishing the indigenous for practicing their own native culture. The parallelism is evident. Cant wait to see whats next.