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Assignment - Heart of Darkness Analysis Essay
Question Description - After reading Part II of Heart of Darkness, respond to the following with your own words while incorporating a passage from the chapter to support what you are asserting (so your answer will be partly in your own words and partly from the novel itself):
Here's an example - Question: Once the steamboat reaches its destination, Marlowe is greeted by a young white man, who looks like a "harlequin"; what does this young man think of Kurtz?
Answer: He apparently thinks quite highly of Kurtz; "you don't talk with that man -- you listen to him" (82).
1. What does Marlowe learn of Kurtz when he overhears the manager and his uncle in a conversation on the shore near the steamboat?
2. Why is the fireman so "useful" at his job?
3. What made the white morning fog so terrifying?
4. When the boat is attacked by natives, how do the pilgrims on board the boat respond?
5. Why doesn't Marlowe think the rain of arrows in the attack on the boat is of any great concern?
6. What is telling about Kurtz from the report he wrote to the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs?