Brave New World - chapters 4-7

What a new world this is. In chapter 4-7, the readers are given both direct and indirect characterizations of Bernard. Bernard is definitely the odd man out. Him and Helmholtz are both oddities because they question the reality they live in. Bernard is an outlier because he feels different from other alphas, especially since he is shorter than the other alphas and is uncomfortable talking about relationships in public. In chapter six, he discusses his feelings about polygamy to Lenina. Basically he says that people that imply act on emotion right away are like children because they don't wait. He doesn't like golf, he doesn't like sleeping around, and he doesn't like soma.
Bernard gets along with Helmholtz because he too is an oddity. He is abnormally bigger and broader shoulders than the other alphas. He has slept with many women but in a way, all this sleeping around has desensitized him and he no longer cares about sex. Both men find comfort with each other because they like to talk about their feelings of uneasiness about the society they live in. They can talk to each other because they have essentially the same questions, and other people who were to listen would think they are mad men.

Lenina has a mini "crush" on Bernard. She finds Bernard to be an oddity but she still agrees to go with him to the New Mexico reservation instead of a vacation with Benito Hoover. Bernard and Lenina arrive at the reservation in chapter 7. Both hang out and eventually Lenina convinces Bernard to compromise himself and drink 4 soma and they go home and "undress." The next day, Lenina does not like the reservation at all. She doesn't like the dirt or the savages' appearance. Their tour guide leads them to where the villagers are at. The villagers are in a circle and they are chanting. A boy rises and walks. A man with a coyote mask sneaks up and whips him and whips him and whips (7x's). Apparently the whipping is to draw blood to offer to snakes and to gods. This is when we meet John.
John talks in broken English and says he would have volunteered to take the whipping but the villagers didn't let him. Now who would volunteer to purposely get a whipping? Someone who has something to prove so he must also be an outside in his own way. He tells Lenina and Bernard his story. His mother is Linda, a Beta, who was here a long time ago with her boyfriend and she wondered off and fell and hit her head. Her boyfriend left and she was left in the reservation. Her contraceptive must have worn off because she was left in the reservation pregnant. Linda is happy to see Lenina because she feels the need to talk to another person, "of her own kind."  That about ends the chapter.