Conrad

This time, a short story by Joseph Conrad called "Heart Of Darkness".

I don't really need to say much about this book, but I will anyways. Short books are harder to write long ones since you dont have that much space to "flesh out" the characters too well and they might be left bland. This book is a perfect example of how it is done in just a few pages. It's not too rapid and it doesnt happen at just the end, it happens gradually so its not in your face. The style of writing is also very clever, making you think while your read the book and might be tricky so it will take you a while to know what its talking about. The writing is also very descriptive especially in the very beginning, describing the departure from London. The imagery is very vivid and it sounds like they would have been going to the open sea from the Thames. The plot has alot of dimensions to it, a symbolical side, a realistic side thanks to the portrayal of Congo and a psychological due to the condition of the human mind it displays at the end. The perfect line and the last line of the book shows it accurately "The horror... the horror".

To talk about the plot a bit more in detail, it is about Captain Marlow and his voyage to Congo to find out what happened to a certain man called Kurtz, who is thought to be missing since he hasnt contacted anyone in a long time. Once Marlow gets there, he finds the outpost burned down and Kurtz alive, living with the natives, seemingly not wanting to leave or contact anyone. I'm not getting in to that anymore since you would lose your interest. But I will tell you, everything is not as it seems.

Can't really talk about such a short story too much without delving into the plot and giving away everything, so I'll leave it at here and hope that you will read it and have a good time.

Good Evening.