Plot
The book entitled Some Points of Seamanship.
What does Marlow find in a hut?
It [the boat] was "like watching the last flickers of life."
What is a simile?
"Good God! What is the meaning of-"?
Who is the pilgrim in the pink pajamas?
'I handled this amazing antiquity [the book] with the greatest possible tenderness."
What is a reverent tone?
Happens eight miles from the Inner Station.
What is the attack on the steamship?
They came out with their Winchesters in the fog.
Who are the Pilgrims?
"The essentials of this affair lay deep under the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling."
What is parallelism?
"Catch 'im...Give i'm to us."
Who is the the cannibal headman"?
"Besides that, they [the cannibals] had been given three pieces of brass wire....to buy provisions...You can see how that worked."
What is sarcastic?
The language that Marlow thinks the book he finds is written in.
What is cipher?
What the cannibals want to do with the crying natives in the wilderness.
What is "eat them"?
"A little fat man, with sandy hair and red whiskers, who wore sidespring boots, and pink pajamas tucked into his socks."
What is imagery?
"Arrows by jove. We were being shot at!"
Who is Marlow?
"Steer her straight!"
What is urgent?
The company gives the cannibals this to trade for food.
What is brass wire?
He steered with no end of swagger.
Who is the helmsman?
"Restraint? What possible restraint?"
What is a rhetorical question?
'I would be devastated is anything would happen to Mr. Kurtz before we came up."
Who is the Central Station Manager?
"It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly."
What is admiring?
Henry Martini
What is a rfile?
What the natives attacked with.
What are arrows?
Sticks, little sticks, were flying about thick."
What is consonnce?
The pilgrims...were simply squirting lead into the bush."
Who is Marlow?
..."a muffled rattle, a cry, a very loud cry, as of infinite desolation, soaring in the opaque air."
What is ominous?
He sported brass earrings and thought all the world of himself?
Who is the Helmsman?