As I read further into the book, I've learned more about Marlow. He is smart, hard working, and proud of himself and what he has accomplished. There's one part in the book where the navigation up the river as difficult and this gave him the feeling of being cut off from everything else in the world. They've also got attacked by Natives, but Marlow didn't feel worried. I would've been scared. Later on, as he was walking along the trail to find Kurtz, he was reminising about his journey with the knitting women, there were pilgrims shooting rifles into the bush. He then thought he would never get out of the woods. I would not imagine he would feel this way because through out the first part of the book, he seemed strong.
At first, I agreed with the Conrad being "racist" point of view, but after reading Fernando's point of view, I agree with him that this negative portrayal of Africans makes the social commentary stronger. I see the Europeans as people who would punk on any race of people just to get land and just to win. They are the type of people who "gets whatever they want" and if they don't they'll harm anyone in their way. People have always seen African American's as slaves being chained up, etc.
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Hey Karyn! I'm glad that my blog helped you see things my way because he doesn't talk that much smack about the African Americans. All he is trying to do is try to strengthen the fact that the Europeans are in copntrol.
Hey Karyn! i agee with you and Furball! I think people got the wrong idea of Conrads story! go read my blog and see what you think! bye!
By the way... when people actually live in Africa, they aren't African American. They are simply African.
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