Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad

Characters
Doctor
Marlow
Russian man
Chief accountant
Natives
Mr. Kurts

When I was reading this book it was a bit difficult because if you didn't read it carefully then you wouldn't understand the book because this author writes lots of similes and if you don't read them carefully then you wouldn't understand that part. Something that was really confusing to me was were the story actually took place because I mean I knew that they were in a ship and they were in a river but then he starts like talking about how he became a sailor and I didn’t know if what was happening like them being attacked was happening in the present or in the past.
This book was really good because you could actually picture the things he is talking about for example in Pg. 53 the first sentence it talks about these heads that have been chopped off and how they looked like. I could actually visualize how the heads looked like because of the word chose for example “black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids, a head that seemed to be sleeping on top of that pole.” I also liked some of the similes that he decided to work because instead of saying the sky was dark he would say “a sky the color of smoke.”
Something that I figured out using the text was the word ivory because in the book it is know to be like money but I didn’t know that then they started talking about how Mr. Kurts was addicted to it and that he only wanted it for himself so that kind of helped me figure out it was money, then I asked my group members and they said the same thing.