HOD Pt. 2 and 3 - Hopefully a comprehesion of both, if not i can do two.

Summary: The steamboat is stalled, in that time many people continue to talk about kurtz. They finally set off and make it close to where kurtz is, after encountering a shack enhabited by a russian trader. They then get attacked in the middle of the night by the natives, possibly ordered by kurtz, but they get to the center and find kurtz. He is obsessed with ivory, and not much else. They take him to the steamboat, kurtz that is, and hold him there for a the night to make the journey back. He runs away in the middle of the night, trying to go back to the natives but marlow stops him. They leave the center to go back to europe, in which time kurtz gets sick. He is near dead and he explains all of the things he wanted to do in africa and everything that he's done and he gives marlow his papers to hand off to sustain his legacy. He dies saying "the horror, the horror." this must mean the darkness in a mans soul and the horrible things that happened deep in the congo, where life is of the most primitive nature being tested in new times. Marlow gets sick but is nursed out of it and returns home, only to meet with kurtz's cousin, and girlfriend/wife. They all have different perceptions of kurtz than marlow, but they didn't know him in africa, they only knew him in europe. Everyone, mostly the company, wants kurtz's papers on the congo but marlow won't give them up, only giving a few and holding on to the rest because of the horror and shock.
I thought this was an interesting way to end a book. I honestly thought kurtz would be insane and eating peoples brains and killing animals to make beds out of and stuff but instead he just liked ivory and riches. I like how it showed that even though Kurtz had a possitive effect on so many peoples lives, those effects were back in europe where they didn't go out and matter. He was greedy when he needed to be a trendsetter, where he really would have mattered. In the end he died alone and in a dark place with nothing but, "the horrors, the horrors," to say. He died unfulfilled of his true mission because he let greed take him over. That is just what i interpreted. I have a feeling there is much more to learn about this book in seminar, because it seems to simple to be such a highly regarded book. Oh, plus the whole colonization aspect of taking over the lands and how he liked the savage way of life and how it's not really up to us. I think that may play into it as well. Very good book but not as powerful as i let myself believe it was going to be. Maybe as i mature i will understand its complexities and power much more.