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As I read "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, I kept feeling the illusion of déjà vu. It was as though I had been here before. I wasn't sure how since I have not read 98% percent of the assignments for this class before. As the story progressed, the name of Kurtz kept signaling me. Click. Brando. Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppela's masterpiece about killing the evil that can reside in a human form. (Probably the best work that Martin Sheen has ever done in his career.)
The main character of the story is a man named Marlow. Marlow is relating an experience he had while he was a steamboat captain, hired to bring back Ivory from Africa. "' I don't want to bother you much with what happened to me personally,' he began, showing in his remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear…" He starts by explaining his childhood desire to go to Africa and, when he accepts a job with a trading company,......

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