Well good morning campers and welcome to My blog-worst intro ever.
Alright some pre-comments before we get into the meat of this book, Never read a Pre twenty-th century book right after you read a New York Times best seller. You will be heavily disappointed.
Now on to the good stuff
Annotating process: Ok this book i annotated the least, mainly due to the fact the book was filled to the brim with such detail that finding and significant or note worthy writing was Dang near impossible. I annotated ALOT of words I didn't know, also I annotated allusions the author gives like, Jupitor, which makes Kurtz Zeus like.
Plot: So a Guy is on a ship and tells this epic tale to his fellow seamen about a time when he "was looking for a job to explore the nile, his aunt made some connections to land him the job with an english company-probably joint stock company. He makes his way down encountering several Peculiar white men and gives notice about the different labels they give the blacks in the region. As he travels deeper into the forest, and deeper into the darkness, the name of a man called Kurtz keeps coming up as a very significant and influential character in the Ivory trading markets along the river. The guy takes a steamboat much father down the river than usual and is at one point attacked by natives, killing his...driving person. Any way, they finally arrive at the place where Kurtz lives and meets the man who has claimed to aid him in his illness's. The admeration this fellow has for Kurtz is baffling to The main guy and he finally meets Kurtz after almost being raided by his native entourage. Kurtz is ill so the main guy trys taking him up river, but he dies on the trip up there uttering the last words, The horror, the horror. After he arrives back in England people come to take these and those things that belonged to him leaving at the end only a stack of Personal letters which our main character feels the need to deliever back to it's owner. After some deep conversing the main guy lies to Kurtz's women saying his last words was her name....
Characters: Main guy. Marlow
Kurtz. Kurtz
Kurtz admirer-er. The Russion-Song by iron maiden
Kurtz's women. She?
Review: Oh dear god, I honestly can't wait to get to class so that I can make sense of this book because so far I see no point and no greater meaning beyond Life in the African jungle is hard.
Whatever else strikes you: In order of appearance:
So this is just like some four hour uninterupted story told by a sailor to his sea men. I was waiting the whole time for a Shut-up by one of the ship mates. Makes me think of Jaws scene where the creepy old guy tells the story of the Shark.
This was literally the most boring of all the books, I noted it should be read by strongbad of homestarrunner.com
Again I hate finding textual errors in Books. page 55 near the bottom.
Quote "who's that grunting?" -should be the next black eye peas top selling hit
Says the title like three different times in the book.
I ever hear the word RIVETS again, i'll shoot someone.
Why the random tangents about the guy who though there were men on mars. WHO CARES??????
By Jove
and my final note, I love the smell of Old books
Structure:....it was divided up by like Three Chapters?
Style: Old crappy hard to understand english
Themes:...I got nothing
Figurative Language: first the definition: A technique in writing in which the author temporarily interrupts the order, construction, or meaning of the writing for a particular effect. If there was something I didn't note it, I usually jot down those kinda things
Imagery: LIKE Seventyfive percent of the book was Imagery, Boring description of things Nobody cares to have describle. MESSAGE TO ALL AUTHORS: unless your writing Sci-fi, we live in the same world you do, You do not need to take Large secions of text to describe things like sunsets, oceans, sand, or African Americans. just do us all a favor and keep your poetic Crap to yourself.
Symbolism: I really hope we find something inclass because if not i'm burning this book.
Sorry that you had to read this, '
but thank you anyway,
Dustin Trembath
Tone:
"Alright some pre-comments before we get into the meat of this book, Never read a Pre twenty-th century book right after you read a New York Times best seller. You will be heavily disappointed." Hahahaha! Good point, but don't burn your book yet, please! We will definitely talk about this book--starting on Monday.
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