“Chris's smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he'd made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings... Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce-facts to which he hadn't been privy.” (p. 121) This is not good mainly for Chris and his dad's relationship and also his mom and him. He was enraged at the fact that he was never told and that his dad would lie to him or be deceitful and not tell him about his first family and
In fact, Joseph Conrad provides a more realistic image of Africa in his 1899 novella Heart of Darkness – a story about a young man’s journey to Congo. Unlike the positive atmosphere that “The Lion King” settles, Heart of Darkness describes the other side of Africans and reveals that white conquerors use brute and unnecessary force to surmount the aborigines, who unfortunately display no resistance. They allow the captors to treat them as those of a lower class, and the captors cease the opportunity to exploit poor Africans for their personal service. The Africans also accept humiliation that comes with the white conquerors – which predominantly formed because of African looks – and this accepting leads to their further negligence. However, not all of the Africans are defenceless.
His foil becomes apparent in small towns on the Mississippi River. Huck is left with many hard decisions. One decision is weather or not to turn in Jim, a run away slave, for money. He chooses friendship over money. His foil is shown here because if he was still like Tom he would have chosen the money.
In "Roots" by Alex Haley, Kunta is taken from Africa and enslaved in America. In the village of Juffure where Kunta was raised, everything was tribal and community oriented. He was the son of a respected man in his community and had just reached adolescence. His African heritage and moral values clashed with what the Toubab wanted of him therefore giving him the desire to do whatever it took to regain his freedom. Having no prior knowledge of America, the setting has a detrimental impact on Kunta in that it is foreign and exotic.
He then establishes a system of forced labor that keeps the people of the Congo in a condition of slavery for ivory and rubber. So, we can deduce that the novel itself, its excerpt to Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness, and journalism within the Free Congo State portrayed the situation with the darkness it deserved. In the novel, Hochschild shines light on the darkness of the situation in Belgium Congo. Hochschild captures the essence of Leopold’s true intentions and the darkness of his nature when he says, “What mattered was the size of the profit. His drive for colonies, however, was shaped by a desire not only for money but for power”.
In his past, Joseph lived in a happy family with his wife and children. He worked while his wife took care of the children. His wife was therefore, an important family pillar and a unifying factor. Things started going wrong when Joseph lost his job because of downsizing in at his place of work. Joseph’s lack of support to the family triggered a divorce.
Europe wanted to set up and colonize in Africa, mainly because of Africa's raw materials it was purely economic. . (Iweriebor, 2011) The African's did not take kind to this, and it provoked not only African political responses but also diplomatic responses and military resistance. A lot of treaties of protection for the leaders of African societies, states, and empires went out. There was a lot of controversy about these treaties and eventually the military had to step in.
Upon arriving in the colonized country and during his travels up the river he begins to see the truth about the company’s “trade” as well as the “cultivation” of the “uncivilized” inhabitants and culminates his enlightenment during his encounter with Kurtz. Conrad’s descriptions of the cruelties he encountered, albeit as a backdrop more than the main subject matter, point out that imperialism, contrary to popular belief at that time, was not a noble endeavor to civilize savage people but rather it was simply a horrific display of exploitation and man’s cruelty to man. Joseph Conrad’s novella contrasted the European’s view of imperialism as a noble, principled pursuit to bring culture to an uncivilized world with the stark reality that is was materialistic and evil in nature. Marlow begins his journey as a business man, going on a business trip. He slowly discovers through his observations that “business” in the Congo and his ideas of how his own “civilized” world is actually the savage one.
While his people expected him to show kindness , he grew harder and harsher which eventually led to his own army and brother killing him. [source K &N] Europeans described Shaka as bloodthirsty and incapable of emotions other than hate and vengeance. Mr. Flynn’s account was only written years after his experience and was influenced by Nathaniel Isaacs who urged him to write about Shaka in a negative way, for the purpose of gaining control. In Apartheid the government influenced their people to think about Shaka as a bloodthirsty tyrant in the series “Shaka Zulu”. [source L & P] Shaka was an intelligent, determined with the motivation to protect and lead his people to victory, whatever the cost.
Started having bad luck and in order to dare with his failures in life, he started thinking about his past and it seem that he doesn't know what's real or fake in life. He try to relive the good old days he had in the past but the thing is that all wrong choices he made also started coming up in his mind as well. When his family notice what was going with his they try to help him by not telling him what was going on with their life and all the money problems they have. In addition, Wily lost his job after many years with same company. Gregor was a man who works hard to help his family for they can live well.