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 when Marlow finds out that Kurtz is actually and ivory dealer and is obtaining many of the things through bad ways. Marlow wanted to0 make the people civilized by looking for Kurtz.

2. I think that the social commentary is also that greed brings out the most in people and that many people will do whatever it takes to make sure that they end up rich. Also that people have alos been imprisoned for a very long time.

3. What i like about the novel is that it is taking pl;ace in a very interesting place with much detail but the thing that i hate the most is that to me the novel does not seem to be getting any better.

what the hell is writer really writing about?

Well in the book you can actually visualize how the african slaves are being held and kept as slaves. They are seen as slaves and they are very poorly taken care of and some of them even die. That is where people think that the author is racist. Also this also reflects the attitudes of the European imperialism becasue they really did not care about the black people. In showing the state of the slave and the condition that they were kept in you can also see that the Europeans only cared about the growth of the empire.
To me it is really a toss up because I can see where people believe it is racist because, yeah. The black slaves are used and chained up to do maual labor by a coulpe of Europeans and are being suppressed. They no longer have the freedom that they had before. But i see it more as a social commentary becasue if the author was really racist he might use some slurs and even focus more on how bad the black people are and start to talk some more smack about them but he does not do that. He only says what type of state there in and by doing that you see that the Euopeans only care about conquest and taking charge of the other foriegn country.
The book to me is all right i guess. It is not reall as action packed and cool as i thought it would be but it does seem a little okay. The cool thing is that in some parts becasue it is so detailed I can actually play the book out in my head like a movie. A slow paced boring movie but a movie never the less.

THE PLOT AND SETTING. I THINK?

Well the book that I am currently reading is The Heart Of Darkness. The setting of the book is really weird. It first starts off with a ship and the ships captian starts to talk about how he became the captain of that boat. The setting then changes to a river in Africa. The plot is that the main character goes into the jungle to get a job on a boat and he later finds out that there are natives that are being held as slaves. The book is no that clear on certain topics but if I were to say it was a good book I would be lying. I fall asleep everytime I open it and it doesn't seem to catch my attention. I wish I would have picked a different book. I know my group members hate me right now because I am the one who sugested the book. Well, the only thing that I can do is try to finish it and hope that it gets better.

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