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I am interested in the difference between some literary adaptation as a story of evolution and literary "trends".  Forster deals with class issues and Smith deals with race issues.  Each author chose their topic based on what was pertinent at that time in their societies.  Today, race issues have been popular because racism is being talked about more and more as opposed to being ignored.  In several years, another issue maybe a hot topic in our society and that time period's literature will reflect that issue.  Therefore, I think that race issues in contemporary literature is a trend rather than an evolved form.  In the future, class issues may be of greater concern as our middle class has been disappearing and the gap between the poor and wealthy has been drastically increasing.  This means that what is prevalent and written about in our society will have come back which goes against scientific evolutionary patterns as traits usually do not come and go.