of the jungle's morally deconstructive effect"(Murfin 201).
             This quote best summarizes deconstruction in the book. As he left civilization, he found something better in the jungle, which has always been in existence.
             Mitchell describes racism in his critical analysis of the book. He cites such passages as :
             "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair. Another mine on the cliff went off, followed by a slight shudder of the soil under my feet. The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it was ve
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