The Heart Of Darkness

Reading the Heart Of Darkness was very difficult for me at first. After annotating by studying the authors way of writing, it made the reading a lot simpler. The author's sentences were a paragraph long sometimes and had so many details. After awhile, the sentences became fasinating to me because this is the first novella that i've read that i can actually visuallize everything. The imagery words are so extreme that you can almost imagine yourself being at the same place that Marlow, the story teller, was talking about. The author also used the "N" word that really put it in perspective that it was written long in the past. Along with being written so long ago, Joseph Conrad talked about slavery and ill workers. I think the way Joseph wrote was very interesting, it encourages me to make my stories pull in more listeners! Marlow, the story teller, reminded me of my grandpa, the way the other crew members could sit and listen to his stories for hours at a time. Marlow's journey was full of adventure and it took many risks. Traveling around the country to meet a man you've never met before and trusting him to be able to help you. I thought it was very weird that after Marlow heard that Kurtz was viewed as a "God" that he still took everything as seriously, even though everyone else around him was ill or suffering. That was just very ironic for me that the world can work like that still today. At the end when Marlow lied about what Kurtz last words were really surprised me because throughout the story Marlow looked up to seeing Kurtz so I figured he wouldnt had lied, even for his mistress.