John is called the savage because he grew up on the
reservation in New Mexico where all the "savages" live. Because of that, his ways are
really strange in the eyes of the "civilized" people.
His
childhood was totally painful. All the Indian women hated his mom because she acted (in
their opinion) like a whore (she had the values of "civilization"). None of the kids
liked him because of that as well.
He feels he is bound by
the laws of the society where he grew up, though. He believes in their morality and the
morality he has picked up from Shakespeare plays.
So he is
an outcast in two societies, which is why he ends up killing himself, I
believe.
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