Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness starts off with five men sitting on a ship talking about their past sailing experiances, and this is where we are introduced to who will be the main character Marlow. Marlow starts to talk about his days navigating a steam ship through the Congo River in Africa, and the story then switches its tense to the past when Marlow was in the Congo. Marlow arrives in Congo and has to wait for a boat to pick him up, and for the next few days he takes in his surrondings, and he sees the violence towards the native people. Then one day the cheif accountant of the Belgian Company, the company for which Marlow is working for, gives Marlow a message to tell a man named Mr. Kurtz. The message is that Marlow must tell him that everything is fine in the outter stations, since Kurtz is deep in the Congo and information does not travel easy through the jungle. Soon Marlow is picked up and arrives at the Central Station where he finds the steam ship he has to captian, and the whole bottom of it is torn out from rocks. It takes Marlow three months to repair his ship, and one day he is introduced to a man known as the "brickmaker", the brickmaker tells Marlow about Kurtz and makes Kurtz seem like a prodigy. Finally the repairs on Marlows ship are complete and he sets off for a two month trip. After the second day fogs desends upon the river and Marlow and his crew are forced to wait for it to lift before they continue, and while waiting they are attacked by natives, one of his men is killed while the other shoot at the natives with their rifles, after a while Marlow manages to scare the natives off my sounded the horn on the ship. The story so far is very eventfull and hopefully it will continue like this to make for a very good story.