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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was not a book that I chose to read. It was basically when I got to college, it was recommended. It was Basic English 1A. I think it was one of the first books that we were to cover in the class. I know that I had had a number of disputes with my teacher with some of the literary choices that she chose. Heart of Darkness was a major one that I did not like. Basically, the book is about this man, this white hunter, who goes into Africa - I believe it was The Congo. And his basis is looking at the black people there who definitely have had no experience with civilization, or white civilization as it were. And his viewpoint is that everything is so negative, savage, brutal, uncivilized, etc. For me, it was really difficult dealing with it, and I brought it up to my professor several times where I said it is just unrelenting for me. That everything is negative, everything is described as being - that's negative is black, and dark, and hidden. It did have good language; it did have really good descriptions of going into the jungle and bringing up the contrasts, so I wouldn't necessarily disparage it that it shouldn't be read. Basically, when all is said and done, I would probably give it about - somewhere between like two and three. I can't actually give it like three, because three would kind of be more of a recommendation for me, like I would think that you should cover it. As I would say, I would give it a two, basically if you like really wanted to bring up the differences of how it's interpreted.