The book marked a shift in Carver's fiction away from the bare minimalist prose of his earlier work toward a fuller, more detailed style. ... His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...
Emily Bronte's life conditions and their effects on Wuthering Heights C. ... They are districtly romantic in temperament, exploring in their novels extremes of passion and violence. ... They also offered new possibilities for the portrayal of women in fiction. Women became even more of a 'foreign land', but increasingly familiar and central as subjects for fiction. ... Outside of Wuthering Heights, there is no madness in Victorian fiction, so the reader felt fear with a disgust in front of the novel's passion. ...
Europeans, declaring themselves "missionaries of God," have worked to pursue manifest destiny and bring God to the "savage" Africans. ... Some men professed to be in Africa for the benevolent cause of civilizing and helping the savages, but their real intentions were less than charitable. ... The last two lines, "Watch sloth and heathen folly/ Bring all your hope to nought." can also be read further into. ... The Europeans saw their culture as heathen because they were unable to understand it. ... Finally, the people of Africa have made up their minds to unite and take things into their own ...
