https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-03-03 19:09:13 UTC 2025-11-05 23:40:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157717465 Written by Joseph Conrad
-Russian occupied Poland
-11 y/o orphaned
-joined Marines, exposed to barbarism of British in the Congo 
-inspired Heart of Darkness
-uses vulgar/brutal reality of life, sometimes found offensive 
-demonstrates how even a civilized person can be turned in the face of greed (inspired by Europeans)]]> 2017-03-03 19:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157717465 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157719656 dehumanizing imagery
recurring motifs
juxtaposition: two or more ideas, places, characters + actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
black white / light dark imagery
archetypes of virgin, prostitutes, businessmen 
frame narrative
twice told tale]]> 2017-03-03 19:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157719656 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157720959 literary movement post WWI: writers capturre essence of modern life in work ]]> 2017-03-03 19:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157720959 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157722399 -conveys image to reader
-shows themes of false hope/promises, ends optimism
-no intro or resolution, conflict is not solved
-lots of gray areas, uncertainty, disjointedness, distrust, disillusionment
-experimentalism
-change literary convention, made it new
-poked fun at themselves (i.e. Scream)
-fragment narrative
-free verse poetry
-implied themes
-high demands on reader]]> 2017-03-03 19:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157722399 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157722619 heavy imagery
deep emotions
various narrative form/structure
nonlinear narration, stream of consciousness
diff POV
use of dialect
fragment diction/syntax
cultural critique ]]> 2017-03-03 19:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157722619 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157723334 The Joy Luck Club
The Stranger
The Butterfly Effect
Memento
How I Met Your Mother
Lost]]> 2017-03-03 19:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157723334 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157726156 -slave traders invade/sell defenseless people for labor
-whites are afraid of blacks, chain them up so they are powerless
-slaves used as tool for profit, inhumane 
-imperialism: colonization of Afr/Asia by US/Euro/JAP
"people of mighty European countries are the first race of the world"
-superior race prominent in HOD
-domination kept by public severance for those who who fought against them
-most important weapon was black bodyguards that were totally enslaved to Kurtz
-split native people]]> 2017-03-03 19:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157726156 500016544 https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157726246 -1890, what is now Zaire in country Democratic Republic of Congo
-6 months in Afr
-Belgian colony founded the mighty Congo River for material gain, claim to end slavery
-"white man's burden", European influence on African colonies
-used Congo's resources (ivory) as trade, claimed it was European property therefore their profit
-Belgian atrocity, sever hands/heads
-protested Belgian presence, nonetheless continued
-1960 independence from Belgium]]> 2017-03-03 19:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/500016544/1288f2vao1yx/wish/157726246