Racism in the work of Charles Dickens For example, in his novel "Bleak House" Dickens mocks Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her children for the natives of a fictional African country. The disjunction between Dickens' criticism of slavery and his crude caricatures of other races has also been noted by Patrick Brantlinger in his "A Companion to the Victorian Novel". He cites Dickens' description of an Irish colony in America's Catskill mountains a mess of pigs, pots, and dunghills. Dickens views them as a "racially repellent" group. Jane Smiley writing in the Penguin Lives bio of Dickens writes "we should not interpret him as the kind of left-liberal
The Narrator (Fight Club) as well - "breeding them like cattle" for generations, so Sebastian and Marla could in turn produce a son, who would be Tyler's host in the next generation. Their son Junior only faked his death in a house fire, as he is slowly being taken over by his own Tyler Durden split personality just as his father was. Sebastian has to race to stop "Tyler", even though he cannot truly kill him without killing both his son and himself. In the 1999 film "Fight Club", based on the Palahniuk novel and directed by David Fincher, the Narrator is portrayed by