Heart Of Darkness Chapter 1

(Chapter 1) Going towards the Heart of Darkness a five-man crew—The Director, The Accountant, The Lawyer, the 1st narrator, and Charlie Marlow, travel on a sailboat named the Nellie through the Thames River, in London, England. Marlow thought about when the Romans traveled on the same river years ago when they were going to conquer Britain, that was the last time light was present and everything became dark. Marlow begins reminiscing about his past; as a little boy, Marlow had a fascination for maps, he would choose places he wanted to travel that caught his interest. The Congo River was one place he was most interested in, but became the darkest experience he faced. He was given the opportunity, with the help of his aunt to go to Africa.
They were dying slowly, and to one man he had more of a consummate demeanor rather than sympathetic for the dead, Marlow meets the Company’s Chief Accountant, then the accountant informs Marlow of a lost man named Kurtz. Kurtz was known to collect abundance on ivory, and was also ill according to the Manager. After hearing so many rumors about Kurtz Marlow’s fascination for him grew. He was ready for the adventure, but he couldn’t do so without the rivets—he (Chapter 2) Marlow’s ship began traveling down into the Heart of Darkness heading to the Central Station. During the night he hears the manager and the manager’s nephew besmirching Kurtz; they couldn’t believe the wealth he was gaining and thought he was stealing ivory and wished death on him by the inhabitant weather. As the sky and air became thick, Marlow wondered about the cannibal Africans They seems so savaging, and it made Marlow very frightful, he thought eventually they would attack all the Europeans. The steamer stopped at a post hours from the next station, the crew got off and looked around for anything suspicious. They found a stack of wood with “Wood for you. Hurry up.” Carved inside it which made the delighted to