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) novel, the Narrator is depicted as working at a military contractor company, and he and Marla are married and have a nine-year-old son named Junior. After Junior is killed in a house fire, it is revealed that Sebastian's mother and father both died in two other separate fires. Unlike in the film, Tyler appearance is based on a personal friend of the author, depicted as having "shoulder-length-Jesus blond hair." His temper is somewhat kept under control through Sebastian's medication. "Fight Club 2" provides a new, drastically different explanation for Tyler Durden: Sebastian discovers that Tyler is not merely his own