lings, and individualism. Bernard is an Alpha-Plus, which is considered to be the highest rank in intelligence. However, for an Alpha, he is short and physically inadequate. Others believe that he may have accidentally received a dose of alcohol in the production stage. He is different than others. Bernard is a bit odd, likes to stay independent and doesnt have much luck with women. He has a friend named Helmholts Watson, who, unlike Bernard, is attractive, successful in sports, popular with the women and community activities. However, he is a bit dissatisfied with his work. Bernard takes Lenina to visit a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. While signing his papers to go, the Director tells him of a story of how he had gone there some 20 years earlier with a young woman who had disappeared and is presumed dead. Also, he threatens to deport Bernard to another facility in Iceland due to Bernards strangeness. At the reservation, they meet a young man named John. Bernard realizes that this is the son of the Director. Then they meet Linda, mother of John, she is the woman that was left behind by the director 20 years ago. Bernard gets permission from one of the World Controllers to bring them back to London. When they come back to London, the Director plans on sending Bernard away. However, he is greeted by his son and lover and is turned into an obscene joke (since for this society having a son or being a mother/father is an ultimate humiliation). It turns out that instead of Bernard being sent away, the Director himself resigns from humiliation. Bernard becomes the center of attention in London, because he is the guardian of John now, and everybody wants to meet this Savage. John is taken to see all the attractions of this new world and doesnt like them, but he enjoys talking to Helmholtz and reading about Shakespeare (this wasnt allowed, but he had gotten the book from his mother back at the Savage Reservati...
