... his friends, sailing aboard the Nellie, a pleasure boat, at the mouth of the Thames outside London. On the boat, Marlow begins to tell of his experiences in the Congo. Marlow starts his tale at sunset, and as his story gets gloomier, so the evening grows gradually darker. Before the start of his voyage, ... onto one much worse: "Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment and despair- -They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... -between through which he must suffer, making an easier path for the generations that are to follow. Finally, there is the issue of Christianity that arises at the end of the chapter. The people of the town do not understand Obi's father's beliefs and think that he should be taught a lesson for not giving an offering to the town's rainmaker so that it would not rain on Obi ... well to cheer him up. It is a poem he had written two years before and on the bottom he had written "London, July 1955." The poem both reminds us of Obi's displacement, but it helps Obi forge a new attitude to take...

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• Grade Level: High School