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I decided to write this letter in order to understand Lenina´s feelings, during the whole story. Which were told by an omniscient narrator, but in my article I want to give a perspective of one of the characters, in this case Lenina, who I wanted my readers to know more, and to describe her with her different thoughts and feelings and her immoral and illegal behavior, and the most important, her thoughts for John ideals of love. In the context, it has been long time since the fateful end. I decided to write a letter from Lenina to John, using a serious but at same time a sarcastic and disgusting tone. I wanted to express how unknown are these new emotions for Lenina and the disgust of this. It's necessary to emphasize that on the

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