George Orwell's “Marrakech” reinforces the principles of Said's view of Orientalism. The superiority of the white man over the brown-skinned Moroccan is highlighted in Orwell's work. Orwell spent six months in Morocco after being wounded in the neck during fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He begins this harsh critique of Monaco while sitting in a restaurant while a dead body walks by, temporarily taking the flies from the restaurant with it. He then comments on the funeral ritual, where the body is covered with a cloth and then buried two feet deep in the cemetery, covered with bricks or earth. No tombstone. Two months later, no one knows where the body was buried. He comments that it's hard to believe we're among human beings. People have brown faces. He wonders if they are really humans. They are born from the earth, sweat and starve and return to the country. How long before they turn their guns the other way? » Contrary to Orwell's harsh criticism of Morocco, Susanna Clark in her 2007 book, A House in Fez, gives a completely different view of life in Morocco. Susanna praises the rich life experiences and customs of Morocco, compared to the loneliness of life in a highly modernized West. Susanna, an Australian arts editor and her television journalist husband, decide to restore an old house in Fez, and in doing so she meets the people and learns the customs of Morocco. In order to communicate with her neighbors, Susanna relearns French and her husband learns the native language Daija. Clarke begins his book by stating that Morocco is only eight miles from Europe, "but in almost every way it might as well be on another planet" (Clarke, p..