Heart of Darkness

10/17/07
"The air was dark above Gravesend and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth (1)." Question 7
Marlow seems to be sarcastic in saying it is the greatest on earth. For the way he describes this place as they are in the boat. It seems to be like a very foggy looking place where no one seems to be happy, but just like dead feeling. The air seems to give the mood of it all.

"They must have been dying like flies here(8)." Question 4
Marlow can seem to know when they is people here they die on a day to day basis. Not just a few, but many at a time. As if though a disease have might have struck them all. They all just go so quickly.

10/18/07
"Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man(13)." Question 1
Marlow describes Fresleven in how he would treat the poor black people. He had beaten the head of this group and they all just watch as he died a painful death. I can't imagine how they could watch and not being able to do a thing, for the fear of their own life. Fresleven must have been a cruel man and it kills me to know someone could do this.

"Mad terror had scattered them, men, women, and children, through the bush, and they had never returned (13)."Question 1
As the people watched him die they left. I would to for they must have all been angry for such a thing occurring and not able to save his life in anyway. They must have all ran away some where or at least I hope. I just hope that no one had killed them away for no one returned.

10/19/07
"They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks-these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement that was natural and true as the surf along their coast(21)." Question 5
They poor slaves are vividly described and it hurts me to think that these people live each day. They are starving and look sick. It strikes me that they are seen as grotesque I mean these are living people. They have so much energy for they know if they don't work they will be killed.

"It was a like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares(22)."Question 4
Was this place so terrible that Marlow describes it as a nightmare. It sure must have been if these images could not leave his head. Everything that has been described is scary. A nightmare is such a horrible feeling.

10/20/07
"A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show(33)."Question 7
How amazing that one guy guy run such a ugly place as described in the novel. How he must be the devil himself. With punishing the poor innocent people just for himself. As if though all those people have no feelings. He just looks and sits.

"He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect(34)."Question 1
How funny all these white men in charge probably had all the same feeling and features. They felt nothing and their minds were probably careless in order to do such things. You must be an animal to with stand such wrong doings. They were listened to at all times and if not they would kill.