Heart Of Darkness Dialectical Journal

Paragraph One The book starts off with the crew and their Captain Marlow on the boat called Nellie, They are very civil and play board games to pass time. Once you go farther down the river the people turn to savages and they kill people for fun. These people lived in the Jungle for their lives and have gone insane, Not people you want to talk to. “Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages,—precious little to eat fit for a civilized man, nothing but Thames water to drink.”
(Conrad 6) These people lived on Hunting their food, and finding their own water, they are the complete opposite of the people on the boat. Marlow had to go to the doctor to get his head checked before he left for his journey and they said most people did not come back. He had to get his head checked because most people either die out there or come back insane

Paragraph Two All the natives Marlow has run into so far has been put into slavery. People have come and taking over the land to use for their own purpose, they would come in and force the natives to work for them. When he is on his way he runs into a group of native people lying in an area. This is where if they felt like they couldn't work any longer they would come here and die. “Black Shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom”(Conrad) These

Marlow says the cries are more of a Sadness cry and that they would not attack, and that it was also to foggy to even attack. “You should have seen the pilgrims stare! They had no heart to grin, or even to revile me: but I believe they thought me gone mad—with fright, maybe. I delivered a regular lecture. My dear boys, it was no good bothering. Keep a lookout?” (Conrad) Once the fog cleared the natives started attacking the boat. You can now see why people viewed the Natives as