"Like a madman, he was slashing at her with his whip of small cords." Page 257
John was a pitiful creature throughout this story. He was an outcast growing up at the reservation. None of the other boys accepted him because of his light skin and hair. When he finally came into the civilized world that his mother Linda had told him of, he was again an outcast, called a savage for his upbringing. No one accepted John for the individual he was. Perhaps this was a message Huxley was trying to convey. Either way, this constant disowning from the two extremes of human existence caused John to eventually take his own life.
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