Black Robe Analytical Comentary “The Eyes of Culture” To write a novel with good historical values, it is essential for an author to do the necessary research on the topic. Before writing Black Robe it is obvious that Brian Moore’s readings of the “Jesuit Relations”, letters sent by the Jesuits back to their superiors in France, gave him the required knowledge to write an insightful novel pertaining to the beliefs of the French Jesuits …showed first 75 words of 1202 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1202 total…open his eyes to the truths of culture. In actuality that’s what the entire book was doing. The characters cultures became intertwined and all the character’s found themselves questioning their beliefs and their values. Robert Moore was able to take the past and write a novel that explored present day themes and do it in an entertaining fashion. Black Robe was a spiritual eye opener for myself, two hundred years after the fact.