He also shows the students how the children are conditioned by sleep teaching. Shortly after Lenina confirms that she will be going on vacation to a reservation with Bernard. They go out to dinner and Bernard tries to tell Lenina how he feels about society but Lenina starts crying. Bernard sees the director to get permission to go to the reservation and the director tells Bernard how when he was at the reservation 20 years ago and he lost the woman he went with. Right before Bernard and Lenina get to the reservation Bernard receives a call from his friend Helmholtz and is informed the director is planning on exiling him to Iceland. Even though Bernard is very upset by that he decides to still go into the reservation. .
When Lenina and Bernard get into the reservation they are shocked to see old and sick people, because there aren't any in the civilized world. They meet a fair skinned man in the reservation named John and he tells Bernard and Lenina how villagers about 20 rescued his mother Linda years ago. John is very attracted to Lenina. Bernard realizes Linda is the woman that the director left behind. Bernard gets permission to take back John and Linda to the world state. When they get to the World State the director is there, waiting to exile Bernard in front of his alpha coworkers. Bernard tells them that the director has a son and all the coworkers laugh at him. The director then resigns out of shame. .
John and Bernard become very popular because everyone is curious about the savage, one night though John decides not to go to an important dinner and Bernard social status plummets. Meanwhile, Lenina has become very attracted to the savage because of his strange behavior. She takes soma and visits John at Bernard's apartment and tries to seduce him. John gets very angry and starts to get aggressive so Lenina runs into the bathroom out of fear. While Lenina is in the bathroom, John gets a call saying his mom Linda is dying.