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Brett Young Tropes Comparison 2/16/2012

Brett Young Tropes Comparison 2/16/2012. Jungle Heart of Darkness – serves as the back drop for Conrad’s journey. Unknown territory. Dark , evil, danger that looks upon the people who live and travel along the river.

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Brett Young Tropes Comparison 2/16/2012

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  1. Brett YoungTropes Comparison2/16/2012 • Jungle • Heart of Darkness – serves as the back drop for Conrad’s journey. Unknown territory. Dark , evil, danger that looks upon the people who live and travel along the river. • Equiano– a place of darkness that Equiano can not escape from after his kidnapping. It is too dangerous for him to even consider running away. He would never find his way home after kidnapping. The beginning of his journey. • Heritage – can be seen as a place that is inviting and guiding with Jungle Star. Jungle Track is a place of wondering about. The track does not lead anywhere unless you are familiar with the land.

  2. Water • Heart of Darkness – a way to travel. Leads Conrad from England to mouth of Thames River. Takes Conrad to continually darkening places while traveling up the river. “Crossing” from one place to the next. A dangerous place. • Equiano – travel. Carries Equiano from Africa to England to West Indies to America. Takes him from one owner to the next. His journey through slave life. Takes him away from his “home” in Africa. • Heritage – vast sea, rough, deep, open, blood. Trouble.

  3. Gender • Heart of Darkness - Females are shown as being weak and unable to carry out tough tasks. Women are nameless, showing their supposed unimportance in society(ex:knitting women, Aunt). Men are shown as strong and able to handle tough or dangerous situations like fixing the Nellie and traveling up the Thames River. All men have names or a title(ex:The Accountant, Kurtz) • Equiano – Men are workers, strong, leaders. Men are ship captains, owners of plantations, slave workers, etc. Women are needed to have babies and take care of families. Women are needed to grow their societies by having more babies. • Heritage – Men as masculine figures, “bronzed men or regal black.” Women are needed to have babies, “women from whose loins I sprang.”

  4. Ship • Heart of Darkness - prison, suffering, transport from “home” to less, death. • Identity • Equiano– as a black writer he always has to represent “crisis.” He starts his story with a disclaimer about how he is sorry he has to write the following accounts. “Crisis” is all that the slaves suffered from beatings, to death, to imprisonment, to losing their “home” in Africa.

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