As Lenina accepted to go to the Savage Reservation with Bernard they headed to it and found something different. They were disguted to find these new things. The reservation have people that have families and abies are born in their natural way. Bernard and Lenina reacted with opposition and disgust to these changes in society. Being able to see their reaction it gave an insight on how brainwashed the people at the World State are. As they explored the reservation they met John, a young handsome man in an indian dress. Bernard and Lenina find out that John's mother Linda was from the world state and met the Director. They were together and had a child. However, Linda suffered an injury while visiting the reservation and some villagers rescued her and has stayed there ever since. With this unexpected discovery Bernard thinks that he should take John and Linda to the World State to embarrass the Director. When Bernard and Lenina do that John became known as “the savage.” At first, Bernard was praised for this discovery and for being "the savage's" guardian. John later seems to be portrayed as a display to others and Bernard only does it to show his success. John explores the World State and its horrified by its intentions and realized he was being used as an object of display. Lenina is attracted to John and develops feelings for him. John misunderstood her feelings because he wasn't given any background information on the society. He realized that people were unable to live for themselves so he went to a lighthouse in the countryside to isolate himself. He was constantly then ridiculed for his life and way of living. So basically, he was not accepted in any way by this new society. In the end of the book, John is driven crazy by this unreal society to him and ends up killing himself. One aspect I see in society that relates to the book is the isolation and descrimination of people who are different. In today's society anyone who is different is ignored or look down on. Though we are striving to fix this problem, it is still present. Other than that everything is pretty much the opposite. In our society we have unorthodox of many types and in the book unorthodox is a fear that one day might litter their society. I have mixed feelings about this book. I like it, but don’t like it at the same time. It was really interesting to see the difference in society. I would only recommend this book to someone if they wanted to see how the world would be if it weren't like nowadays. It can get weird at times and would definitely understand if someone didn't like it but I think we sometimes need to think about this stuff.
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