BRIAN DUMP
MAN i am tired of this Heart of Darkness book right now, it seems like we have been talking about it F-O-R-E-V-E-R. Buti thought it was a pretty good book to read. It grew on me, at first i thought it was going to be horrible, but it turned out alright. I thought the book was pretty racist. Like the setting being in Africa, in the Congo which is the Heart of Africa. Also all the workmen on the boat were black, the savages were black….like why couldnt there be White savages.
I think that HOD is racist, but at the time it was wrote, Joseph Conrad was not trying to be racist he just wrote what was going on. This book is about Conrads life is it not?? So how would it be racist if he was just writing about what was going on in his life during this trip of his????? It cant be!!!
So i think there are two ways of looking at this novel. If you look at if as if you were in there time period then it wouldnt be rasist. But if you look at in our time period then it can seem to be rasist.
