37 pages 1 hour read

Brian Moore

Black Robe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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Essay Topics

1.

Throughout the novel, characters speak numerous languages and occasionally encounter language barriers. How do these language barriers further the narrative? 

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Clothes are used as cultural denominators throughout the text. How do Europeans and native peoples treat subtle variances in clothing, and how do they ignore such differences in other cultures?

3.

How does the journey along the river in the first part of the novel mirror Laforgue’s crisis of faith?