"...that beautiful, beautiful Other Place, whose memory, as of a heaven, a paradise of goodness and loveliness, he still kept whole and intact, undefiled by contact with the reality of this real London, these actual civilized men and women." -pg. 201
John is struggling to keep the memory of his childhood alive while seeing his mom, Linda, die. The irony is this--the world John created of London in his mind of the 'brave new world' and 'Other Place' is truly horror in every way. What is killing him inside is that he is trying to keep that memory alive. He keeps trying to find ways to make the world in his mind a reality. However, he is slowly finding out this reality is not like his dream of this place. Death is treated as a good thing. While that seems unethical at first, it makes me think. We struggle so hard when a loved one dies to picture them in a better place, and take their end of suffering as a good thing. Maybe the people in London aren't so crazy to train their kids to take death lightly. Life would be much easier if that was the case for us.
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