Youth (Heart of Darkness) Final

The end of the book was pretty satisfying. Marlow paints a very clear image of the jetty as the Judea pulls into the eastern harbor. He says the jetty has many men standing on it, of all colors. He can see the yellow, black, brown and tanned faces, with the black eyes in the distance. The men all stood still as they stared down at the other ships. Nothing was moving, there was no breeze, and even the trees stood perfectly still. For the last page Marlow talks about his fascination with the sea, what he looks for in it, and what he takes out of his first lage-scale trip.

I think Marlow grew alot emotionally during this whole book, and the last little bit is a reflection of him, through his eyes. He still mentions his youth, so I know he'll be having more adventures on the sea.

Youth (Heart of Darkness) part 4

Nearing the end of the short novel, Marlow tells us that rats have infested the ship. "They had destroyed our sails, consumed more stores than the crew, slept in our beds, and shared our dangers." Alot of this part of the story has dialog of the characters conversing about the rats, like Marlow arguing with mahon.

To me, this part was extremely boring. through the dialog i kept looking away from the book and being easily distracted by other things, Although i was able to read all the stuff about the rats leaving the ship and the moonlight marlow saw

Youth (Heart of Darkness) part 3

Marlow is telling us all about the ship as they wade through the water. Its apperantly not in the best of shape after it collided with the other ship, and it turns out it wasn't a glancing blow. As the ship cruises through the wicked storm outside, Marlow describes the wood on the ship to be "magical; the wood planks are turning into matchsticks before my eyes." Marlow is also quite worried about the storm itself, and how its gone on for a while. He says its like a hell for sailors, where they all forgot whast day, week, month and even year it is and competely occupy themselves with maintaining the ship the best they can before they get to cornwall.

I'm starting to feel some compassion for Marlow, and i feel pretty bad that he has to go through all this, because i've seen how bad it can get out there on shows like 'Deadliest Catch' from the Discovery Channel. The book itself i think has pretty much reached its climax and i'll save the rest of it for another day. I hope they make it into port alright, but I'm sure they will since he writes a few more books.

Youth (Heart of Darkness) part 2

Marlow is telling us all about how the captain's wife fixed up his uniform for him, and suddenly he sees a red light off in the distance. It disapears for only a second and then comes back into focus. Marlow identifies it as a steam-rigger, and its heading for the ship! He notifys the others and the captain is forced to stop the ship. The next thing Marlow feels is the steam rigger smashing up, but only preforming a glancing hit against the ship.

I figured i would stop at a more or less exciting part so i'll be able to get back into it when i pick it up again. The book hasn't gotten terribly interesting yet, but its certainly good at painting the picture of the 2 ships glancing eachother as they pass. I'm not sure about damage to the Judea but I hope its not too bad.

Youth (Heart of Darkness) part 1

Youth is heard through the voice of Charles Marlow, an apperant deckhand on the Judea.
In the begining, Marlow starts his story of the first time to the East. He is appointed as the Second mate of the ship. The ship he is now sailing on (Judea) is alot different from the clippers that he sailed on before, according to his new skipper. Marlow is especially interested in the saying on the ship's hull: Do or Die. Marlow begins his journey to Bankok from England.

So far, this book is actually somewhat interesting, possibly because its a challanging read for me. i do plan on reading a bit more before i go to bed or tomorrow. I know there is a ton to read if i'm planning on reading all of Marlow's adventures in Heart of Darkness, Chance and End of the thether. I think i especially want to finish this one off because i know we're doing Heart of Darkness in class and i know it wouldn't hurt to have a back story to that.