In this novel, children learn to feel no emotion towards someone once they die. “Undoing all their healthy death conditioning with a disgusting outcry – as if death were something terrible” (Huxley, page 187), John stammered as the children surrounded his dying mother. In our world, we aren't taught to block out our emotions about death, but children don't feel as many emotions about death as adults do. Needless to say, this is a similarity but also a small difference between our world and theirs. Although the children of our world are not conditioned to feel nothing, they still do not feel as much, but only because they did not grow up to learn the meaning of life. Another similarity would be the entertainment within both worlds. For example, our primary form of entertainment is our cell phones, whereas, as in Brave New World, their central form of entertainment is soma. To summarize this topic, people in our society depend on their cell phones for just about everything. Without these devices, we would all be lost and not know how to function. While as in Brave New World, citizens depend on soma to feel good and