Flashbacks

“Popé with the blood trickling down from his cut shoulder; and Linda hideously asleep, and the flies buzzing round the split mescal on the floor beside the bed; and the boys calling those names as she passed…”  Brave New World (p. 203)

Okay, this quote is extremely confusing because it is mixed with a flashback and what is occurring in the moment.  First of all, John remembers this as his world is falling apart – Linda is dying, the girl he loves doesn’t want to marry him, and he finds Bernard is not the great friend that he thought.  A little rough, I’d say.

Therefore, John has a flashback to the moment he realized life on the reservation was “unclean” in a sense – the moment when he stabbed Popé. 

The moment of the past and present have similarities.  Both are great moments of anger for John, moments where he realizes life is not what it seems.  Also, both places he lives, he is mocked and is considered the outsider. 

In the movie Tangled, Rapunzel is locked in a tower wondering what life would be like if she were ever to leave.  She dreams of a better life outside the tower walls.  In the same way, John was trapped in the reservation.  However, he escapes and finds that things are different then they appear.  Obviously, Rapunzel finds a different outcome (after all, it is a Disney movie).  Both also experience flashbacks of their former lives – Rapunzel flashback was more positive, whereas John’s flashback was more negative. 

Maybe I just connected this because I like the movie Tangled, but either way, here is my favorite song from the movie.