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.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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?
Sunday, February 21, 2016
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.
Monday, February 8, 2016
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.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Saturday, January 30, 2016
pages 59-86
Mr. Rochester comes to marry Antoinette, but for him to come and marry her his is paid 30,000 pounds. I think Rochester agrees to marry this girl for the money and because in one of his letters he told his father that he will not be useless and beg for money anymore. So I believe he agreed to marry someone he has never meet to proved to his father and brother he is not useless. Did Mr. Mason offer so much money to Mr. Rochester because he knew that if he didn't pay someone to marry his step-daughter no one would marry her. The day before the wedding when going to the house to it starts to rain and Antoinette sees an old friend. Was this an old friend or was it one of the slaves that burnt down the house? When they arrived at the house four servants are there to greet them. This four people came from the old plantation, did they not uprise and take part in the plan to burn down the house or did they and claim they didn't so they weren't out of a job? On the day of the wedding Antoinette refused to marry; I believe that she refused to marry because she found out that Mr. Rochester was being paid to marry her and did not want to give him the money. Mr. Rochester also took note on how she never wanted to get out of bed and her moods changed at night. I believe that this is foreshadowing how she is going to go crazy and this is the start.
Monday, January 25, 2016
Wide Sargasso Sea pg. 17-33
Overall I think that this will be an interesting book to read. I thought the book started out slow, which caused me to be confused. I didn’t understand at first that the mother was Jamaican and the father that past away was white. I found the friendship between the girl and Tia to be an interesting one. Did they meet by walking past each other everyday or were they introduced? I found the scene when Tia stole the dress and took the pennies to really show how poor she was and that she would take anything that she could get. I think that the mother remarried to have someone to fix up the house and bring an income into the home so her and her two kids didn’t have to struggle through life. The ending part where the mother is asking to leave, I believe she wants to leave to get away from the people that killed her horse and the fact that she believes that she is cursed. I have a few questions: How old is the narrator? Is the sun mentally handicapped that is why he can’t talk and walk? How did the father fall in love with a slave daughter? And can they not own slaves anymore because the US outlawed slavery?
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