"'Oh, my God! What's the address?'
. . . .
'Three Park Lane-is that it? Three? Thanks.'
Lenina heard the click of the replaced receiver, then hurrying steps." PAGE 197
This quote ended the chapter in suspense. The reader is left to wonder, at this point, what the crisis is. The main point contributing to the effectiveness of the suspense is that the reader is aware of one side of a phone conversation. If the reader would have known what was being said on both sides, the suspense would be taken away. The situation at hand would be known. Without knowing, the reader is encouraged to make predictions about what will happen next and what is going on. I think the crisis, from the one side of the conversation I know, that someone is gravely ill. It also seems to me that it is his mother, Linda. I think this because throughout the novel it is reiterated several times that the society accepts death and are primarily illness free. Linda would be the one vulnerable of disease from living like a savage like she did in the west. It has also been hinted that Linda would soon become severely sick or die from the use of the soma. I believe that Linda is very ill from all the soma she has been taking and that her son, John, left in a rush to be with her. The savages do not accept death the same way the society does. Even if they do see death as inevitable, it was not something that was easy to accept. John's leaving provided the perfect opportunity for Lenina to leave safely, I assume.
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