"Heart of Darkness" was written by Joseph Conrad in 1902. In that time, Britain is in the Industrial Revolution. Western countries have a colony like Africa then. Marlow is a main character of this book. He is a seaman. The speaker is him, and the writer is listening. Marlow went to Africa with ship. He saw a lot of slaves. The people live in Africa were used as slaves in Europe. He met a man whose name is Kruz. He worked very good, but ......
This book was confusing me. It is almost only a talk. It's very serious I thought, because there are a lot of slaves working for European countries. If you read this book, you should know about that time.
I believe this book allows us to see that every people including Africans have a right to be happy. No one can be treated as like slaves. This sounds like a very serious problem that we have to think; some people struggle for their race.
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