During this part of the book, we have some pretty interesting things happen. Marlow stops and takes some times to look at the heads and skulls on the post. The heads are facing towards Kurtz house to remind him that he is in charge and has the authority over these people and skulls. These skulls are from the rebels that did bad things and Kurtz ordered that their head be chopped off because of their disorderly conducts. I find it pretty that the faces on the skulls are smiling. They are smiling as a remembrance that they have escaped the sufferings. The skulls have escaped from Kurtz through death and death is supposedly better than suffering.
The natives are not a part of the darkness. However, the darkness acts upon them just as the darkness acts upon Kurtz. The Natives are not ashamed to have grown up in the darkness and thinking that the darkness is not frightful. The darkness is something that the Natives have grown up in. Anything different from the darkness is new to the Natives. In class, Mrs. Pfanschdmidt said that the only reason it is dangerous to us is because we have hearing it from the whites point of view, who are afraid of it because it is something that they are not immune to and it is something that they cannot control.
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