I. Overview: Chapters XXI-XXII
 Reaching Managa's village, Abel excites the Indians  to believe that Runi's tribe is coming to war against
 them.  After regaining his strength, Abel challanges  Managa to go and war with Runi's tribe. He leaves
 Managa's tribe to go back to his once beloved forest.  Abel enters into a dark period of his life in which
 the once fearless, and superior character falls prey  to his own imagination. Starving and going insane,
 Abel seeks for food wherever he may find it in the  company of his phantoms and illusions of the mind. In
 the midst, Abel comes face to face with the agonizing truth that Kua-Ko's story was more than true. He
 gathers up the ashes of the remnant of his beloved  Rima and stores them in a crude, hand-made urn.
 Realizing that if he does not leave the forest soon, he may come face to face with a death more terrible
 than he has ever imagined.

 II. Analysis: Character
 Throughout Green Mansions, Abel's character is rational and firm in his beliefs. He is not
 superstitious nor is he quick to fall into the same fears as the natives. As Abel's character draws
 towards the end of his journey, he changes dramatically. Abel, a character known for his use of
 reason and intellect digresses into a mad man. Driven to insanity from the loss of Rima and the pangs of
 hunger from within, Abel notes, "Once my soul hungered after knowledge" and now digresses into "seeking for
 grubs and honey"(192). Abel describes these years of  his life as "that period of moral insanity"(179). The
 once enlightened and noble character, led by reason, is now led by his passion and vengeance to see Runi's
 tribe massacred.
 In this current frenzied state of mind, Abel carries on a conversation with a "phantom, a Rima of the
 mind"(194). Clearly not speaking with someone who actually exists. Abel is locked in by his passions and
 therefore cannot hear the voice of reason that these  shadows and voices do not really exist. Hudson takes
 his once reasonable and lucid character that once pondered on nature, and causes him to carry
 conversations with vapors of his imagination. Reality begins to change as he stares into a pool of water and
 hears a tormenting voice whisper, "yes, you are evidently going mad"(186). Even Abel's features
 reflect his mental condition. He hasn't eaten nor  slept properly in such a long time that he appears
 almost dead with his "sunken eyes"  "the bones of his face showing through the dead-looking, sun parched
 skin" (186). Abel makes a crude brush and tries to straighten his looks, and yet the taunting voice
 challenges Abel's condition of mind. Regardless of Abel's efforts, the voice from within says, "the
 crazed look will remain just the same"(187). Haggard incorporates phantom voices, shadows, and Abel's
 physical appearance to conclude that his once rational character has digressed to phantoms of the mind.

 III. Questions
 1. How has Abel's character changed throughout Green Mansions?
 2. How does the mood of these two chapters affect the characters?