BLOG ASSIGNMENT #3

1. What is the climax of the story?
2. What was the social commentary?
3. Why did you like/ dislike the novel?

1. The climax of the story is that Kurtz was actually not that good of a person. Marlow heard a lot about Kurtz since the beginning of the voyage and he got to meet him at the Inner Station. Marlow discovered that Kurtz being abandoned, had obtained a lot of uncivilized actions like having greed for ivory, etc. He was beginning to behave like an animal.. When Marlow and his crew went to Africa, they wanted to civilize the people there by looking for Kurtz.

2. I believe that the social commentary of the book is that greed has brought out the worst in people. We don’t realize that greed has taken the best of us so Conrad wrote this book to hint to us what the world has become of. When greed takes over us, we will do anything to get what we want and not care about what we’re doing to other people.

3. I disliked to book because Conrad put so much detail into everything so this gets me pretty bored of the book and it makes me get distracted easily. Whenever I’m reading it, I think to myself, “More details, I’ll just scan through this page then.” Also I disliked it how I didn’t even know when the “adventure” began. Marlow was being introduced to the reader, then all of a sudden, he starts talking about his adventure to Africa.