October+8+2009+Setting+Hw


 * Do a quick description of the four settings. Then write about a theme or motif you have seen so far.**

1. “oily and languid sea” was the description of the setting of the sea Marlow’s aunt’s rooms with the fireside where they talk The hot station what is described as “three wooden barrack-like structures on the rocky slope” The empty, abandoned villages

The tone of the entire story is quite dark. Diction and syntax is used to provide the readers with a kind of delayed, complex story. The re-occurring motif in this story is hierarchy. Even in this section of the reading, there were multiple descriptions of naked, colored people going around like ants, representing the difference in status between the whites and the Congo natives. With the desire for money and greed, the colonists were exploiting the Congo natives consistently.