Brave New World - Seventeen

"And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back" (pg 210).

This epiphany by the Savage is very emphasized by Huxley through a sort of metaphor.  I feel like this epiphany was blatantly told to the reader to ensure that John's next actions have a clear source of reason.  It would have felt very jumpy had the Savage went from a mournful state to that of utmost rage.  The metaphor seems to show just how engulfed John had been in all of his emotions.  John had been under unrivaled joy, sadness and anger all within the matter of a few chapters (which seems to be a couple weeks), which he had kept with held for the duration of the novel.  The Savage opening his shutter seems to be symbolic of his emotions unleashing onto all of the helpless khaki wearing Deltas.  The epiphany was in figuring out that the soma that the world was giving Linda had actually shortened her life significantly through a type of poison (so my guess with the correlation to Suite Life on Deck seems to have been pretty close!).  When John saw that the "brave" new world was giving out these toxins to even its lowliest of citizens, he snapped.  My only wonder is what part of this plot made him realize that the soma was to blame as the cause of his mother's death.  I hope that this outbreak made some sort of news in the Hatchery and made other "people" aware of the negative effects of the toxin, though I doubt any of them would stop.  Unfortunately, I do not know how John and Bernard will be able to save the world while in custody of the police.