... Africa. This furthers Conrad's theme of the paradox of colonialism by providing another example of how the English, read Europeans, are no better than the native Africans because they too were once the savages being colonized and "civilized."" The next three lines all have clear connections to Apocalypse Now. The two lines ... Apocalypse Now is also clearly important in The End. But, the reference to the blue bus is less obvious. According to Harvey Kubernick, a journalist and native of Jim Morrison's hometown Los Angeles, "We all had a sense of regional pride when we heard Jim Morrison s...

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