What is the tone? What words create the tone?
P1) The tone is wonderment. "savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent", "uncontrollable desire", "eyes gleamed" create the tone.
P2) The tone is amazement. "wild vitality, an intense energy of movement" create the tone.
P3) The tone is disgust. "black rags were wound round their loins and the short ends behind waggled to and fro like tails", "death like indifference of unhappy savages" create the tone.
P4) The tone is horror struck. "intolerable and appalling","phantom brother", "[the natives] went on all fours" create the tone.
What is the tone of paragraph 4? How does it change? Why does the narrator mention the white man so close to this description of the natives?
The tone of the fourth paragraph changes from horror struck to respectful. After depicting the natives as insufferable animals, the narrator writes of a white man with a starched collar, making a distinct shift in tone as well as description. The narrator probably mentioned the white man so close to the description of the natives in order to show the superiority of white men to natives.
Why would the west manufacture othering?
By manufacturing "othering", it creates a sense of unity by sharing similar beliefs. This then strengthens the community as well as making them feel superior.
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