"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right..." (259). He died. That's so original. I think that the first author who decided that the protagonist would die in the end of the story was original, but since then it's just gone down hill. I thought he would die, but I didn't expect the whole Lenina incident to occur. The way John portrayed himself as by the end of the book I think hurt him more than helped him. He showed the world that you kind of go crazy without all of the soma and conditioning and Ford. In the end, nothing good happened. People were sent away, which I guess is sort of good; But John dies, the government is still intact, and nothing changes. Or did something change?