As Janie grows, however, she realizes that Nanny's material emphasis on idolization of whites is not the key to happiness or success. ... It is hard not to notice the repetitive white images in this passage. ... She knows that material wealth is not the key to happiness. ...
Clearly, the birthplace is one of the key components that make Son and Jadine completely different in light of the fact that Son starts from a residential community Eloe, while Jadine is a common city young lady. ... This passage in the story correlates to her want and need for Son to respect her and see her for who she is. ...
Heart of Darkness opens on a boat called "Nellie." Marlow and his shipmates, including the narrator whose descriptions of the scene fill the few breaks in Marlow's stories, loll on the deck waiting for the tides of the Thames River to change. To entertain his compatriots, Marlow begins to talk about his philosophies on colonization, his personal history, and his voyage up the Congo River into the heart of Africa. Like many storytellers, Marlow speaks in a stream of consciousness, skipping forward and backward in time without warning. The reader is left to infer from symboli...
