The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was by far the most challenging book I have read in a while. I’m not sure if it was because of the time period in which it was written, or if it is just the tone of the book, or if it was the fact that I read it during the summer. With that in mind, I tried to annotate the text to leave trails so that there might be a better chance of understanding it. However, once I read the summary and analysis of the parts that I had previously read, it made it easier to understand. The book’s format was also a little hard for me to see, along with the narrations.
The theme of humane vs inhumane we have for our summer reading books was very easy to see in this book. Once Marlow had reached the Inner Station and found Kurtz, I began to see the direction of the book. Kurtz had been looked at as a remarkable man, but he lost all of his morals when he was at the Inner Station. It’s strange to think that even the greatest of men can fall so far downward that they would no longer be recognized as the same man.
There is a theme in the summer reading! I'm glad you saw it. :)
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