Very early in the book, when Bernard asked for a permit to go to the Indian reserve, he was told a story. Thomas, the Director, told him that he went to take a walk in the woods with "the girl he had at the time". They slept, but when he woke up, he no longer saw the girl. He looked all over the place, called for a search, but she had simply disappeared. When Bernard is in the reserve, he meets a young boy, John. But John isn't an ordinary "Indian". He is white (and he has been bullied because of it). He tells the story about his mother, Linda, who got lost when she was hiking with a man named Tomakin. The natives have found her, and she lived with them in the reserve. But there was a problem: she was pregnant! With Tomakin's son! So she never had the courage to ask to go back to London because she had a child, which she could not get aborted, and having a child in London is extremely bad.
It does not take Einstein to figure out that Tomakin is Thomas. Later John and Linda are brought back into London, where Linda meets Tomakin and reveals to everyone that he is the father of her son in an assembly. No need to say that Thomas was fired! It was nice of the author to include this little mystery inside the book. Not only did it add a twist to the story, but it also made up the story. The rest of the book is mostly about John who tries to coop with the society, he tries to be alone, an individual in a communist society. It was very hard for him, especially with his dying mother, but in the end... he almost succeeded. The ending was very confusing. John was going to be sent to an island where he could be an individual, but he was refused. For some reason he lives in a lighthouse, and he turned crazy. He turned into a monster who's only goal is to kill and to make people suffer. The book ends with some people from a helicopter coming down in the lighthouse to get the "savage" and bring him to some place...
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