Heart Of Darkness

Upon reaching the creek, the child proceeds to jump back across, seeing that the stones he is using are all stained red from the blood of those more fortunate to have fled earlier. Looking back across the creek towards his followers, he notices that upon reaching the water the men appear to have reached their goal and begin to drink, however they are able, some even dunking their heads, but that upon obtaining the water they had not the energy to back away or pull themselves out and they die there as they lay. Waving his sword overhead to spur on the rest of the men, the boy motions onward through the brush, toward the beacon of light shining in the sky. Upon making his way up to the crest and seeing the column of fire reaching into the sky the child begins to dance and cavort with his shadow; not a living thing is in sight but that is of no importance for the child is pleased by the spectacle. Rushing here and there, looking for additional fuel to throw on the fire, the child is disappointed to find everything is too heavy, so in surrender he flung his sword instead.

It was Clayton who climbed up and freed the boat, and Bud, a tall fat boy, who got the weight of it on his back to turn it into the water so that they could half float, half carry it to shore. All this took some time. Eva and Carol abandoned their log and waded out of the water. They walked overland to get their shoes and socks and bicycles. They did not need to come back this way but they came. They stood at the top of the hill, leaning on their bicycles. They did not go on home, but they did not sit down and frankly watch, either. They stood more or less facing each other, but glancing down at the water and at the boys struggling with the boat, as if they had just halted for a moment out of curiosity, and staying longer than they intended, to see what came of this unpromising project.

Thoughts of drowning run rampant in every man’s mind on that boat. At dawn, the men decided that their only chance is to row toward the distant shore again and swim when the boat finally capsizes.

What do you make of the strange episode of the fire and the hole in the bottom of the watering pail? What does this event contribute to Marlow's and the reader's sense of European life in Africa?

The slaves are all on the boat, loaded in loose pack. They are laid on their backs, luckier than those who had to be in tight pack, but unfortunately continue to suffer. The slaves all cry, yell, and moan as they take off. All of them are miserably separated from each other, keeping them from communicating or supporting each other through the pain. Each one of them is chained to one another, forced to watch the other die slowly.

The man who’d insulted her was named Steve and he apologized as he freed and wound the hawser on board. It was a thick, heavy rope that rolled around a reel anchored on the roof of the funny boat house.

At the plantation, NED, an angry White Man, whips NINA, a Black former slave. Black Raven and Captain Early arrive with the dead men. Nina is devastated. One of dead men is her husband.

Jesse promises a dying woman to take her son to safety. The son, Perry, is a runaway slave and Jesse needs to get him to his aunt’s in Baltimore. The ship that they are going on to Baltimore does not want to take them but they got on. Captain Harrison told them to stay in a part of the boat until he said they can come out. When they got out of the ship there was a ton of people marching in the street and people shooting each other and it was terrible. When they were trying to get out of there they saw Colonel Abednego Botfield who was trying to capture Perry and Lydia. He saw Jesse and picked him up and then saw Perry and took him with him to widow.

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Heart of Darkness is written by Joseph Conrad and published in 1899. It is a novella written in the early modernism literary period.