Excerpts

1. The tone of excerpts 1-3 is one of scared wonder-the narrator has clearly never seen people like these before, and he finds them exotic and unpredictable. In section 1, he talks of "the young fellow by my side [who] growled" and that "the pilgrims murmured at my back." He also writes that "a formidable silence hung over the scene." In section 2, the wonder is evident through the wording of the description; he tells of "faces like grotesque masks." Finally, the third section mentions the "complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages."

2. The tone of the first paragraph of the fourth section is horror and uncertainty. The narrator discusses a man with "his brother phantom" and how the entire scene seemed a "picture of a massacre or a pestilence." The second paragraph, however, seems to be overwhelming relief; the narrator first "took [the white man] for a sort of vision."

-Why would the West manufacture an other/enemy?
 They might do this to gain unity; with a common enemy, people seem to group together and unify.