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Section 1 pp 65-80 (15)

1. On a ship named the Nellie on the river of Thames during 1876 and 1892.
2. Unknown sailor/crewman.
3. “Sunken cheeks, yellow complexion, a straight back” (Conrad 9). Resembles Buddha.
4. Knights, explorers, discoveries.
5. Impressive, old, beautiful, and tranquil.
6. Great Knights (Titled, Untitled).
7. No, he was a wander.
8. Narrative Framework (story within a story) and metaphors, similes, imagery.
9. A snake.
10. A mystery.
11. More wars and colonization.
12. Barracks in a rocky cliff.

pp 81-99 (18)

1. His pristine appearance and wore a lot of white.
2. First-class agent, very remarkable person and the trading post.
3. Caravan with 60 men.
4. The steamer sunk to the bottom of the river.
5. Curious, commonplace, complexion, features, manners and voice; ordinary and sometimes makes you uneasy.
6. It is easier to work with tools than with men,
7. They only wanted gold and he just wanted to explore.
8. They didn’t want to better the world.
9. Rivets.
10. Parallelism,
11. The suspense is what he overheard the conversation between the manager and his uncle.

Section 2 pp 99-128 (29)

1. The uncle and nephew are talking about Kurtz.
2. Kurtz had ivory.
3. It was the first time he could picture him.
4. “Earliest beginnings…” (Conrad 35)
5. Push and pull the boat and wade in the water.
6. “Sluggish beetle…” (Conrad 36)
7. He is like a trained dog; they don’t have a good attitude. The “parody of breeches” suggest that he is not respected and is looked down upon.
8. Cannibals; they didn’t have anything to eat.
9. Helmsman; spear in his side.
10. Marlow sounds the steam whistle on the steamboat.
11. Characters talk to the superiors only when they need food or a specific need. They can’t speak English correctly and they use a lot of slang.
12. They dispose of his body so the cannibals won’t eat him
13. An old book in cipher with writhing in the margins.
14. A Russian trader.
15. Russian writing.
16. There are a lot of trees surrounding him.
17. Shrieking cries filled the boat and no one could see the boat.
18. Women are not important.
19. They couldn’t talk to each other; they have a weird partnership though. They have an understanding and an unspoken language with no words exchanged.
20. International society for the suppression of savage customs.
21. “Exterminate all those brutes” (Conrad 49).
22. The man is about to tell Marlow something really interesting about Kurtz.

Section 3 pp 129-144 (15)

1. He has done so many bad things he can’t go back; going back would be just as hard as going forward.
2. They have a lot of cartridges left.
3. Kurtz wanted the ivory.
4. He got the warriors from the lake to go with them.
5. They are human heads, heads of enemies and they are a symbol of power.
6. Savages attack out of the forest.
7. Bronze like and she comes to Kurtz and stares sadly.
8. He wants to shoot him because he doesn’t like him.
9. He doesn’t care at all about the manager and he is slightly happy.
10. Follows Kurtz into the jungle.
11. He was out in the wilderness to long without restraint and his emotions took over and ruled him.

pp 145-158 (13)

1. They wanted to shoot the natives and scare them away.
2. Corrupts him and turned him into a native.
3. They delay shook Kurtz confidence.
4. A packet of papers and photographs.
5. “The Horror, the horror” (Conrad 72). He learned what he had done wrong
6. Kurtz looked beyond the darkness.
7. She reveres his goodness and Kurtz wasn’t proud of what he did and he was almost the opposite of what she thought of him.
8. She wasn’t important and it was how Kurtz should have been with the significance of the name.
9. Death of his soul and sinking into the darkness.
10. Dark and sorrowful.
11. Native women because they made the same gesture.
12. He tells her it was her name and he didn’t want to tell her the truth because it was too dark.
13. Their similarities are they both love Kurtz a lot and they are both sorrowful when he died and neither of them were addressed by name and they are insignificant and used as symbols. The native women was wild and bad and represented the native side of Kurtz when he was in the jungle and the English women “Intended” she was civilized and good and she had a title.