Pages+5-21+Emine

· Pg’s 5-9 very important · “ natural and true as the surf along thier coast. They wanted no excuse for being there. They were a great comfort to look at ” pg 16 = talking about the natives, they are a part of their land unlike the colonists · “where the merry dance of death and trade goes on n a silly and earthly atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb ; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off the intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickening into slime, invaded the controlled mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.” =Colonialism and trade takes over the natives. · Pg’s 18-21 very important · Outer station, death, rotting and decay = “I came up with more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rusty rails” pg 18 = colonials wasteful, in efficeient, machinery is not where it is needed instead it is left to decay · natives are being used like machines, dehumanization of natives · “dark things seemed to stir feebly” pg 18, “dark things” are natives not really described the way he would descirbe normal people · Natives are a part of the metaphorical background to the novel ( not real people) · “I’ve seen the devil of violence the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire; but by all the stars! These were strong, lusty, red-eyed devils, that swayed and drove me n men I tell you” pg 19= Darkenss of Imperialism ; devil is the imperialists · “It was just a hole” pg 19 = no apparent reason other than torture or punsihment · “the man seemed young-almost a boy- but you know with them it’s hard to tell.” Pg 20 = use of pronoun “them” is as if they are not real people · “he had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck”- colonialism