Beautiful, barbaric, big, bipolar, bold, basic
The way the author makes the story is what actually affects all of that
The verb "looks" would be in this case a linking verb, since it is helping the reader understand the point of view of the observer. The weather itself is of course not "looking" anywhere.
The parent-child relationship
"Candide" is a book that was written by Voltaire and in this book, Voltaire is satirizing society’s emphasis on lineage when he explained about Candide's mother not marrying his father because his father could "only prove seventy-one quarterings" and this refers to his family tree.