HOD Pages 14-20
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- The Trek to Central Station
- By Georgia Mantione, Parvathy Nair, & Dejah Hill
- The Sunken Steamboat
- 3 months!
- A Talk with the Agent
- Let's talk about Europe...
- Marlow and his caravan of sixty men trek for fifteen days to get to the Central Station. Unfortunately, during the trek one of his friends dies. Later, the natives leave him rather than bring him to the carrier.
- A Silouhette and a Torch
- When he arrives at the station, Marlow is informed by a fat, white man with a mustache that his steamer has sunk. After finding this out, Marlow goes to meet the manager right away. Marlow plans to stay at the Center Station for about 3 months to repair his steamboat. Later on, a fire breaks out in the grass shed full of cloth.
- An Ulterior Motive
- After the fire, Marlow overhears the manager and an agent discussing how they can take advantage of the accident. Afterward, the agent introduces himself and asks Marlow to his room. During their conversation, Marlow realized that the agent is trying to get information out of him for his own personal gain.
- The Essence of a Dream
- Is this real?
- "I noticed a small sketch in oils, on a panel, representing a woman, draped and blindfolded, carrying a lighted torch. The background was somber-- almost black. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister" (Conrad 19). The significance of this quote to the novel is that the colonists-- represented by the woman-- who believe they are bringing light and positivity to the natives-- represented by the black background-- are blind to the negative effects of their actions.
- After viewing the painting, Marlow and the brickmaker make their way outside where they observe the natives attempting to put out the fire under the moonlight. It is revealed that, before Mr. Kurtz came, the brickmaker was supposed to be assistant manager. The brickmaker dominated the conversation and tried to prove himself to Marlow.
- Let's talk about Mr. Kurtz...
- "It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams" (Conrad 20). The significance of this quote is that Marlow claims that the story he is retelling seems impossible to believe. However, he continues to say that it is not a dream, and in fact, it all actually happened.
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