Cory Kim

Heart of Darkness
Part II:
Light vs. Dark

When the sun rose there was a white fog, very

warm and clammy, and more blinding than the
night (35)

Civil vs. Savage

Fine fellows cannibalsin their place. They

were men one could work with, and I am grateful
to them. And, after all, they did not eat each other
before my face (31)

Illusion vs. Truth

He was useful because he had been instructed;

and what he knew was thisthat should the water
in that transparent thing disappear, the evil spirit
inside the boiler would get angry through the
greatness of his thirst, and take a terrible
vengeance. So he sweated and fired up and
watched the glass fearfully (32)

Chapter 1 (Every trip is a quest)

I flung one shoe overboard, and became aware

that that was exactly what I had been looking
forward to a talk with Kurtz. (43)

Chapter 7 (Biblical allusions)

Dont you know the devilry of lingering

starvation, its exasperating torment, its black
thoughts, its sombre and brooding ferocity? Well,
I do. (38)

Chapter 12 (Symbol?)

Going up that river was like traveling back to the

earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation
rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.
An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable
forest (30)

Chapter 13 (Political)

You should have heard him say, My ivory. Oh,

yes, I heard him. My Intended, my ivory, my
station, my river, my everything belonged to
him. (44)

Chapter 19 (Geography matters)

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart

of darkness. It was very quiet there behind the
curtain of trees would run up the river (31)

Theme: When an individual who has a degree of mental strength finds him or herself in a stressfully
sudden situation, the result may be an unexpected display of leadership.