Victoria Hester

Mr. Breite
Beyond Eden
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Heart of Darkness workshop questions
1. In book.

2. Part 1- (pg. 7) “In a very few hours… end of coin by trade”

(pg. 13) “Another report from the cliff… mystery from the sea”

(pg. 21) “It was as unreal… saints into a kick”

(pg. 22) “Transgression… conflagrations for the future”

Part 2- (pg. 28) “The climate may do away with this difficulty for you”

(pg. 29) “The danger is in Europe”

(pg. 30) “In a few days… sea closes over a diver”

Part 3- (pg. 51) “I assure you… pitiless to human weakness”

3. (pg. 3) “I was thinking of very old times…”

(pg. 4) “He paused”

(pg. 5) “I had then as you remember…”

(pg. 24) “He was silent for a while.”

(pg. 24) “…Yes- I let him run on…”

(pg. 30) “Try to be civil, Marlow…”

(pg. 43) “There was a pause of profound stillness…”

(pg. 44) “I laid the ghosts of his gifts…”

(pg. 72) “Marlow ceased, and sat apart…”

4. Traditional- (pg. 38) “Don’t you know…somber and brooding ferocity”

(pg. 5) “It had ceased to be a blank space… a place of darkness”

Reverse- (pg. 7) “In a very few hours… end of coin by trade”

(pg. 11) “The voice of the surf… firing into a continent”

(pg. 17) “A neglected gap… retired out of sight somewhere”

 (pg. 31) “We had enlisted some of these chaps… I am grateful to
them”

5. (pg. 41-42) “Something big appeared… his hands clutched that cane”

(pg. 18) “I did not see the real significance… steamer was sunk”

(pg. 32) “But suddenly we struggled…outbreak in a madhouse”

(pg. 40) “I was looking down at the sounding pole… we were being shot at”

6. (pg. 25) “No, I don’t like… never can tell what it really means”

7. Defend- (pg. 10) “She talked about… made me quite uncomfortable

(pg. 15) “Everything else in the station… a precious trickle of ivory”

(pg. 16) “Well, if a lot of mysterious… would get empty very soon”

(pg. 45) “He began with the argument… power for a good practically”

(pg. 46) “Perhaps you will think… sand in a black Sahara”