George Orwell's “Marrakech” reinforces the tenets of Said's vision of Orientalism. The superiority of the white man over the tanned skinned Moroccan is highlighted in Orwell's work. Orwell spent six months in Morocco after being wounded in the neck during the Spanish Civil War. He begins this harsh review of Monk as he sits in a restaurant while a dead body passes by, temporarily taking the flies with it from the restaurant. He then comments on the burial ritual, in which the body is covered with cloth, then buried two feet deep in the cemetery, covered with bricks or earth. No headstone. Two months later no one knows where the body was buried. He comments that it is difficult to believe that one is among human beings. People have brown faces. He wonders if they are really human. They are born from the earth, sweat and starve and return to the country. How long does it take before they turn their weapons in the opposite direction? completely different view of life in Morocco. Susanna praises the richness of Moroccan life experiences and customs, compared to the loneliness of life in the highly modernized West. Susanna, an Australian arts editor with her television journalist husband, decides to restore an old house in Fez and, in doing so, meets the people and learns about Moroccan customs. To communicate with the neighbors, Susanna relearns French and her husband learns the native language Daija. Clarke begins his book by stating that Morocco is only 13 km from Europe, “but in almost every respect it might as well be on another planet” (Clarke, p..