Heart of darkness cliff notes5/10/2023 He learns also that the General Manager who runs Central Station and his crony the Brickmaker fear Kurtz as a threat to their positions. In the three months it takes Marlow to repair the ship, he learns that Kurtz is a man of impressive abilities and enlightened morals, and is marked for rapid advancement in the Company. Marlow hikes from the Outer Station to the Central Station, where he discovers that the steamship he's supposed to pilot recently sank in an accident. He mentions a remarkable man named Kurtz, who runs the Company's Inner Station deep in the jungle. While at the Company's Outer Station, Marlow meets the Company's Chief Accountant. In particular, he sees a French warship firing into a forest for no discernible reason and comes upon a grove where exploited black laborers wander off to die. The Company headquarters is strangely ominous, and on his voyage to Africa he witnesses waste, incompetence, negligence, and brutality so extreme that it would be absurd if it weren't so awful. First he travels to the European city he describes as a " whited sepulcher" to visit the Company headquarters, and then to Africa and up the Congo to assume command of his ship. With the help of his well-connected aunt, Marlow gets a job as pilot on a steamship on the Congo River in Africa for a European business outfit called the Company. Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo. The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England.
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