Heart of Darkness pg. 38-47

This section starts out with Marlow being very upset about the fact that he cant travel on for the last eight miles of the trip. The manager doesn't think it is a good idea since they saw the sign.  The crew of the ship is given copper to stop at the villages to buy food but the men are carnivorous and eat human meat.  Is this a normal thing for people in Africa to eat human?  When the fog finale lifts they start head up the river.  When they start to be under attack by the native people. Were they shooting arrows or were they unsharpen sticks? Also what caused the large smoke to appear in front of them?   The man that steers the ship gets hit and dies at the feet of Marlow.  I think Marlow didn't react to the fact that someone is dead at his feet because he was to busy trying to save the lives of the other men on the ship.

Heart of Darkness pg 31-38

Marlow is lying on the deck of his broken down ship and the manager and his uncle walk by and are talking about how Kurtz is sick and gunning for the manager job.  This might be far fetch but I think that Kurtz didn't just get sick on naturally but got a poisoned by the manager. Kurtz also wrote a letter asking that they stop sending him people that didn't know what they are doing. I think that management are sending him these people because they want to make him look bad.  Marlow starts to travel up the river at the end of the section.  He starts to notice the native patterns of life such as the drumming on the river bank.

Heart of Darkness End of Part One

Marlow takes off on a french steamer towards the Congo River is switched to another steamer to go up the river. I thought that this was a Belgium Company so why is he on a french boat.  When he is on the second boat he is told about another man that just hung himself on the boat, I think that this is symbol of what life working in the Congo is going to be like, like sucking the life out of him and not wanting to be part of such an awful thing.  Marlow discovers what the Congo is really like and tries to feed on of the native people.  He then meets the account and tells him to pass a note on to Mr. Kutz. Is this note that he is passing on a note about the awful treatments of the native people. When Marlow arrives at the central station to get his boat he found that it has sunken.  Marlow discovers the boat was sunk on purpose. I think that this happen to not allow Marlow to get to Mr. Kurtz.  Marlow gets his boat out of the water and has to wait for equipment to fix it.  A market place burns down and the native people dance.  Why do they dance? Do they dance because this might force out the non-natives?

Heart of Darkness pg 1-13

The men on the ship anchor right outside of the river waiting for high tide.  Marlow starts to tell his story of a dark time in the very same spot. Is this dark time when Congo people were being attacked? Marlow then tells a story about how he was stabbed by one of the village people and left there to die. Was this in the Congo? He says he got the job as the captain from his aunt. His aunt was friends with the people that ran the shipping company.  I found this entire section very confusing I did not understand the people knitting, was that some kind of symbol, also how his aunt was involved in the entire thing.  I think that maybe as the book progress I will start to understand it better, but I don't care for author writing style how the quotes are these long paragraphs that all marge together.

WSS End of Part Two

When Rochester wakes up after sleeping with Antoinette he feels that he is being suffocated. I think that this suffocation is a symbol for their relationship they were both forced into the marriage and can't get out of it and they are suffocating and wanting their own space and live their own lives. Rochester takes the last straw with Antoinette by sleeping with Amelie, Antoinette heard everything that was going on between the two of them.  Rochester realizes he made a mistake and must send her away and told to never say a word by paying her off. Antionette fleas the house and goes to visit Christophine. When she returns she gets drunk and smash the bottles of rum.  She tries to kill Rochester like her mother tried to kill Mr. Mason.  This was the last straw for Rochester, he kicks Chrisophine out of the house and takes Antionette to the main island. I think he does this because if he gets her to mentally ill he will be free from her and get to keep all the money he made from the deal. Rochester writes his father telling him his plan to lock her up and a place. I think that the only way that Rochester was to feel better about himself for cheating was to proved that it wasn't his fault that he cheated it was Antionette's because she didn't give him the chance and she was crazy.

WSS pg. 98-114

Word: Love
Question: Is everything Daniel Cosway saying true?