line then goes into a flashback, and tells Marlow's story of his adventures in the Congo. He has a.
connection to become a steam boat captain, but when he arrives at the first station he finds out that his.
boat is at the bottom of the river. Also Marlow has to rise the boat and repair it with inferior tools.
"That, and the repairs when I brought the pieces to the station, took some months (79)." For it to take.
so long it must have been second rate help and labor. Marlow secretly hears about a man names Kurtz and.
become interested in him. He wanted to know about how he became such a good successful ivory trader.
One day the boat was traveling down the river and they were attacked by natives. [H]e,[the helmsman].
became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat (106)." Finally.
they arrive at the inner station, where a Russian speaks of the !.
illness that Kurtz has. Then the sicken Kurtz is brought on the boat. The Russian suggest that Kurtz be.
taken away from the village. Kurtz had strange taste in personal wants. Marlow suggests that Kurtz was.
warped by the jungle and would account for the heads on top of post, his lust for blood, and the raiding.
parties on other villages. The Russian then takes a rifle and disappears into the jungle. Now that the.
Russian is gone, the boat starts its way back up the river. The natives gather and the men open fire,.
after Marlow blows the whistle to scare them off. Kurtz later talks to Marlow and confides in him.
Kurtz believes he will be dying soon. Marlow attempts to soothe him, but he is unchanged. That night.
Kurtz dies. "Suddenly the manager's boy put his insolent black head in the doorway, and said in a tone of.
scathing contempt: 'Mistah Kurtz -- he dead.'".
Feeling the way Marlow did he went to Kurtz's wife to be and told her the news. She was astonished and.
as Marlow said his last words, the story went back to the boat and Marlow was meditating like a Buddha.
