Jarvis sat, deeply moved. Whether because this was his son, whether because this was almost the last act of his son, he could not say. Whether because there was some quality in the words, that too he could not say, for he had given little time in his life to the savouring and judging of words. Whether because there was some quality in the ideas, that too he could not say, for he had given little time to study of these particular matters. He rose and went up the stairs to his room, and was glad to find his wife not there, for here was a sequence not to be interrupted. He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president. He read it through, and felt with a sudden lifting of the spirit that here was a secret unfolding, a track picked up again. There was increasing knowledge of a stranger. He began to understand why the picture of this man was in the house of his son, and the multitude of books.

blue;  figurative language
red; punctuation
green; structure of the passage
purple: point of view    
goldish; characterization

Gender roles play a big role in this book.  In the beginning, you see that women are under appreciated.  In the first chapter, it says that women tend the field.  and usually its the men who do that.  That is the first time i have seen the roles being switched around.  In the second chapter it opens with a girls walking to Stephens house.  the gender roles are really changed in this book.  from what we have read, men grow up to do more things, and be bigger leaders.  Women on the other hand, if the are wives they have to support the men no matter what.  And they also have to do most of the dirty work.  It also seems like men are cleaner, cause Stephen is going to Johannesburg to see a sick girl, and on the train ride.  He has trouble sitting by some of the women cause they are dressed wrong.  Time has changed obviously and i hope its still not like that over there in Africa.