The album features bleaker, more pessimistic lyrics than those of "Dookie". The situation became even bleaker after the war. Author Patrick Humphries considers Springsteen's song bleaker than Berry's. Oxford finished the season in 17th place, but the club's financial situation became ever bleaker. As the election approached, things began to look even bleaker for the South. Most journalists and military historians, however, paint a bleaker picture. The novel is bleaker in tone than "Golden Witchbreed". The western shores of Bleaker Island are low-lying and fringed by shallow stone beaches. Its "bleaker and uncompromising" close is suited to the Good Friday story. Yeates' original choice of title was the much more apt, bleaker "Wingless Victor". There were five ship-wrecks on Bleaker Island in the first quarter of the 20th century. The rest of the films chosen were bleaker, intellectual fare. Bleaker Island has been a sheep farm for over a hundred years. In 2007 some of his bleaker works were removed from school textbooks. A total of 79 species of flowering plant have been identified on Bleaker Island.