In this novel, children are taught not to feel any emotions towards someone once they die. “Undoing all their healthy conditioning to death with disgusting cries, as if death were something terrible” (Huxley pg.187), John stammered as the children surrounded his dying mother. In our world, we are not taught to block our emotions towards death, but children do not feel as many emotions towards death as adults would. Needless to say, this is a similarity but also a small difference between our world and theirs. Even though children in our world are not conditioned to feel nothing, they still don't feel that much, but only because they haven't grown up to learn the meaning of life. Another similarity would be the entertainment in both worlds. For example, our main form of entertainment is cell phones, while, as in Brave New World, their main form of entertainment is soma. To enumerate this topic, people in our society rely on their cell phones for virtually everything. Without these devices, we would all be lost and not know how to function. Where, as in Brave New World, citizens depend on soma to feel good and