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Summary: Chapter 8. John tells Bernard that he grew up listening to Linda’s fabulous stories about the Other Place. But he also felt isolated and rejected, partly because his mother slept with so many men and partly because the people of the village never accepted him.
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John refuses to meet Bernard’s dinner guests. John tries to...
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John becomes the central character of the novel because, rejected both by the “savage” Indian culture and the “civilized” World State culture, he is the ultimate outsider. As an outsider, John takes his values from a more than 900 -year-old author, William Shakespeare. John’s extensive knowledge of Shakespeare’s works serves him in ...
But instead of hitting him Pope just looked at him. Laughing Pope told John to go, he called John his brave Ahaiyuta. At the age of 15, Mitsima, who is the old man of the pueblo, taught John how to work with clay. It was a bonding experience between the two. John had several incidents happen that made him feel alone and isolated.
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Men were standing, dark, at the entrance to the kiva; the ladder went down into the red lighted depths. Already the leading boys had begun to climb down. Suddenly, one of the men stepped forward, caught him by the arm, and pulled him out of the ranks. He broke free and dodged back into his place among the others.
- Aldous Huxley
- 2014
Analysis. Outside Linda 's house, Bernard and John talk. Bernard is struggling to make sense of John’s life on the Reservation. John recalls events in his life in a series of flashbacks: An Indian named Popé gives his mother a drug called mescal and then they sleep together. Indian women attack Linda for sleeping with their men, and Linda ...
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John is sickened by his weakness in giving in to sins of the flesh. His efforts at self-penance have failed as he engages in the orgy. There is no penance left for him but self-destruction.
