Heart+of+Darkness+-+the+plot+part+II

=Part 2 =
 * he ıs actıng asleep but ıs actualy awake and listening to the ongoing conversation
 * the people were speaking of Kurtz (uncle and nephew)
 * pictures Kurtz for the first time - imagines him as he decides to head back into the jungle, turning his back on a chance to return to a more civilised place
 * Ivory is mentioned as being supposed to be taken to the central station - it was during this trip that Kurtz turned back
 * uncle and nephew talk about how K wants to be manager of the station, to which Marlow gets up and reveals himself
 * Eldorado Expedition - donkeys died - Marlow didn\t ask about "the less valuable animals"
 * Gets on boat and two months later arrives at the bank below Kurtz's station;
 * Description of going upriver - "the earliest beginnings of the world"
 * In the description of going upriver, the main dangers are the snags'
 * People talk about ivory
 * Marlow comments on the prehistoric world and its accursed inheritance to them. Implying that the "white man" has a right to take over their land and colonize them
 * Poetic writing describing the jungle
 * Reference to the cannibal (aka the fireman) on-board with Marlow; example of Conrad's attitude towards Africans
 * 50 miles below the inner station they come upon a hut of reeds and a sort of flag pole left there with a note advising them to procede with caution. the note however was not from Kurtz.
 * They are nervous about the note that was left on the reed. They do not see the down the stream and decide to go trough anyway. They see a 'white mans' hut and decide to look. They see a book that is worn and realise that it is a cipher.
 * 8 miles from kurtz station they decide to acknowledge the warning and wat till morning before proceeding further. but then the next morning the river is filled by a thick mist and they are unable to proceed.
 * In the morning they hear screams and shrieking nearby and so they begin to haul the chain up, the shrieking causes alarm among the white people aboard, while the African people are unsurprised and even amused by the reactions of the white men
 * The cannibals on board ask Marlow if they can go capture the shrieking people since they did not have much to eat.
 * The black man seemed not to care about the fellow natives. He seemed dignified in his response of saying that he was going to eat them.
 * Marlow feels pity for them as they havent eaten but Marlow stills says that they have 'no inherited experience' that of which education might give them and in line with nobody every truly knowing what inside them or how they live.
 * They are given brass wires that they can exchange for provisions but most villages were aggressive and didnt like them being there.
 * Marlow starts to wonder why if the black people are cannabals and hungry why they havent eaten them yet.
 * He then thinks that maybe soon he will have to start eating them to sustain.
 * Part 2 was started with the private discussion between the manager and his uncle, and the topic of their conversation was Kurtz
 * Unaware of Marlow being there (who pretends to be asleep), they talk of Kurtz trying to take over the manager's position using his influence.
 * They also talk about Kurtz disconnecting himself from the company and that he is not well.
 * Soon, Marlow reveils himself and they both stop talking.
 * After a while, Marlow's ship is completely repaired and he plans to leave to meet with Kurtz along with the manager and natives.
 * They arrive near Mr. Kurtz's station and although Marlow wants to continue going, the manager advises that they wait until daylight since the waters are perilous there
 * Marlow talks poetically about how he and the men on-board haven't eaten for an extended period of time and that he is afraid that the cannibals will eat him
 * Soon after the fog lifts and it is safe for the steamship to proceed, the men on-board are attacked by the natives, and Marlow witnesses the majority of his men die
 * Because of the attack by the natives, Marlow assumes that Mr. Kurtz is dead as well, and is disappointed that he will never meet the great man.
 * Marlow eventually meets a Russian trader, who says that the natives attacked the steamship because they did not want Mr. Kurtz to be taken away.
 * Whilst caught by another snag Marlow's boat is attacked by a band of natives from the bush
 * The African who steered for Marlow is killed by a spear and Marlow notes how peaceful the man's death was
 * After the attack Marlow begins to wonder if the whole trip has been a waste since, Kurtz may well have been killed by these natives
 * The narrative returns briefly to the present where Marlow lights his pipe and tells all the other sailors how lucky and privileged they are
 * He also tells them about how suddenly emotional he becomes about the prospect that Kurtz may be dead and that he'll never get to see him after all
 * Marlow begins to doubt that Kurtz wad worth the lives lost on the boat
 * He also states that the helmsman's death was his own fault, since he shot at the men. He then proceeds to throw his body overboard.
 * The cannibals feel unsatisfied as the helmsman could have been a potential meal but has now gone to waste
 * The station comes into view, with a Russian standing on the shore who talks without end
 * We learn that the Russian was a merchant seaman and was employed by the Dutch to go to central Africa
 * during the screaming in the fog, Marlow becomes intrigued by the Africans that are working aboard the ship. He tries to put himself in their shoes and see the ship and the current events from their perspective. when he does this he wonders why they haven't are any move against the other people aboard the ship due to hunger
 * when Marlow's ship was attacked one the "fool-niger" who was nearby is impaled by a spear. just after he is hit Marlow shares, for the briefest of seconds, a deep, knowing connection with the man. this connection appears to dramatically alter Marlow's view of the Africans
 * Marlow realizes that, since starting this journey towards Kurtz, he may have been doing his job and experiencing new cultures but, in the back of his mind, the thing that was truly driving him was the opportunity the speak with the man who had influenced so many people. he realizes his when he discovers he will probably never get the chance to talk to Kurtz as he is most likely dead.
 * <span style="color: #bb140c; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">when Marlow meets the Russian they get to talking about the book that Marlow picked up on the way here. he discovers that the notes written in the margins were not, in fact, written in cipher, but russian.
 * <span style="color: #bb140c; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">When the Russian explains that the natives attacked out of the fear of losing Kurtz, Marlow sees the situation that he just went through and Kurtz himself in an entirely new light.
 * Malrow overhears a conversation between the station manager and his uncle, picking up spinets of their conversation but gathers that a year ago kurtz sent a message to the station manager to be left alone
 * Eventually Marlow begins the long journey up river while passing tribal villages. After entering a very narrow channel in the river the crew is attacked by the natives who fire arrows at them killing one of the crew members
 * Marlow considers Kurtz to be dead due to the hostility around in the area. He laments that he'll never get to hear Kurtz speak as the narrative cuts shortly to the present.
 * Marlow further goes on to recount about a report Kurtz wrote on the International society for the suppression of savage customs which stated how because the white man is so developed he must seem like a supernatural being, using that authority to practically civilize the natives. But comments that Kurtz wrote that before he went unstable and started taking part in tribal rituals
 * Marlow meets a russian trader - an intruder, the uncle and station manager talked about - who reveals that the locals didn't mean any harm by attacking them, they were afraid thatKurtz would be taken from them.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In part two Marlow overhears a conversation about Kurtz between the manager and his uncle while pretending to be asleep.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He then continues sailing towards Kurtz station and encounters a sort of flag pole with a note advising him to be careful onwards.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">He also finds a book he thinks is written in cipher by an Englishman.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When the steamboat is only a few hours from Kurtz station a very thick fog forces them to wait for sunrise.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">At sunrise the steamboat is attacked by natives and Marlow's men die.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Marlow loses hope of ever finding Kurtz as he thinks he might have been killed by natives as well.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Marlow then meets a Russian and realizes that he was the one the manager and his uncle were referring to.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Russian explains to him that the book wasn't written in cipher but Russian and that the reason the natives attacked the steamboat is because they were afraid of losing Kurtz.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Part two starts off with Marlow taking a nap
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">He happens to hear the manager and his uncle talking about Kurtz
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It's revealed that they don't like Kurtz and question how he recieves that much ivory.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">They go on to say that Kurtz one time came down the river to only turn around half way through. This makes the manager and his uncle suspicious of Kurtz.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">The manager then says that the African environment will "take care" of Kurtz.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Later on, Marlow and his crew (eldorado exploring expedition) take off in order to see Kurtz and make sure everything is okay. He is traveling with a group of cannibals who are given brass pieces as a currency and eat hippo meat.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It takes two months to reach Kurtz's station
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Marlow describes his environment as prehistoric and scary. He feels likes he's traveling to the heart of darkness. The term prehistoric implies that the are was uncivilized. He also says he feel very small and isolated in the environment.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Marlow starts becoming more and more interested with Kurtz to the point where all he wants is to hear Kurtz's voice. At this point he says that the only reason he's traveling to the station is for Kurtz.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">At one point, Marlow reveals that he feels he has some sort of similarity with the Africans. "Remote kinship"
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Marlow finds a notebook written in a language he doesn't understand.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">A little bit before they reach the station, they a pproach a sign saying "approach cautiously"
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">The cannibals have run out of food
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">They start going upstream when they're attacked by the indegenous people.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It comes as a surprise when the members of the crew start collapsing.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">One of the crew member die at Marlow's feet and the blood ruins his shoes.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Marlow becomes really upset about this.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Marlow talks about a report Kurtz wrote for the International Society for the Supression of Savage Customs. The report states that Caucasians should act as if they are gods when interacting with the Africans.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">They finally reach the station where they are greeted by a Russian man
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This russian man is 25 years old, has blue eyes and works for Kurtz as his assistant. He says that the Africans are in fact harmless and simple minded
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It's revealed that the reason the Aricans attacked them was so that Kurtz wouldn't leave.
 * <span style="color: #ff7c00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It's revealed that the reason the Aricans attacked them was so that Kurtz wouldn't leave.