darkness in the heart.

     So recently i have picked up the book Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and although it is a very well written book it is not very appealing to me. However it is rather easy to come up with things to write about.

     I am only about 20 pages in the book so far and let me tell you, it is, as Ms. Rear said, a very dense book. In the book one of the characters Marlow goes into this long story (Please don't get angry if I'm wrong about this fact I wasn't exactly quite sure about this, and I kind of  lost myself somewhere in the book.) about himself as a captain sailing up the congo. ( a river in Africa) later he was sent to a African Village to recover a man named Fresleven's bones, only to find that he was killed by the native tribe their when he tried to attack the village chief.

     Later in the book I found out that, the village had been deserted because the natives were superstitious that because they killed a white man, a curse or something would be placed on them and this just made me think a lot about race and discrimination in the world today. Today not many people I know believe that a certain race or color is dominate or more educated or something than others. But years and years ago black and white people couldn't use the same, well, anything. They ere separated in almost every(if not all) public places. I started to question myself about how the discrimination actually started. I know the basics but why did people back hundreds of years ago think that blacks were a lesser race.

     I think that they all had some kind of fear of change, and they were afraid to allow this other race into their ordinary lives. People thought that they were lesser and wanted white protestants to be the main race in much if not all of europe and many other places as well.

     Anyway now I have to start that prep sheet so I think I'm going to end this blog post here.
     Sometimes you gotta do homework earlier in the week....