... Kerry are done Mrs Rutter offers them a sweet, and tells them a story. She tells them about the time when the plane came in the forest, during the war. How she and sister found the plane, and how they waited for two days for the survivor to die, before they reported it. After the story Sandra and Kerry are terrified and leave hastily. Sandra has learned that people are not ... scary and where nobody dares go by themselves, because of the "ghostlike voices coming out of the darkness of the wood (ll. 20-21)". I like this contrast between the dark and the light, and how they are placed rig...

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... The new realism lay not in plot but in complexities of individual psychology. The writers experimented with form and time of narration, which is regarded as a part of the character's consciousness. The journey in Heart of Darkness covers not only thewaters? filling our physical world, but also the contradictoryocean? which exists in the ... it, serving to bring the reader closer to the conclusion that the voyage is indeed an inward one. The first major indication of this is the posture of Marlow as he recounts his journey into the Congo. According to the narrator, "he had the pose of a B...

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... still is separate. "Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest." (Conrad 59) The action of travel upriver is another instance of the African environment trying to halt the progress of the whites while traveling downstream gives them a quick way out of ... a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, 'I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.' The light was within a foot of his eyes."(Conrad 111) This quote ...

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