Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Summary of chapter1 Heart of darkness Book repor3 project6


Summary of first chapter

One day, in evening Marlow who is a seaman talks about his terrible experience he had it in Africa when he was young on the ship. There are his four friends and one of his friends is the narrator in this story. When Marlow was young, he decided to go to Africa because he had not been there. He entered a French trading company by his relative`s connection. Marlow got in the ship and left for Africa. More than thirty days later, he arrived at the branch office there. He saw black people bring elephant tusks there and exchange with cotton or glass. During his stay there for ten days he heard about Kurtz who was a representative staying in the hinterland. He was the excellent representative and sending a lot of elephant tusks to the office, so it was said that he would be the executive in his future. He left for the center branch office which was 200 miles far from there. He arrived there fifteen days later through jungle, grassy plains, and rocky mountains.

 

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