1st blog of Heart of Darkness

“Heart of Darkness”, by Jeseph Conrad, starts off on a boat with harsh waters. They are voiaging towards Africa. He views the crimson sails as blood on the horizon. There may be death to come. This could be some form of foreshadowing. He talks about their captain saying that instead of his work being out there in the luminous esturary, it is behind him within the brooding gloom. Another possible form of foreshadowing maybe showing that the captain isn’t the best guy in the world. He uses metaphor comparing the sea as the lawyer of the ship making everone tollerable with eachother. He uses great personification describing how the sea itself is like the lawyer. He talks of a man named Marlow who has sunken cheeks, is sitting criss cross, has a yellow complection, and with his palms face up looks like an idol. He could possibly be comparing him with Death: sunken cheeks and yellow complection. Or her could just as easliy be viewing him as a god of some sort: criss corss and palms face up, like that of certain gods do when posing in paintings. He uses an intersting line stating that the gloom to the west was being angered by the upcoming sun. Great use of personification; I can see a eary gloom and with rays of sunlight mixing into it while it acts like it is retreating. Conrad’s writing style in incredible, it is very intelligent and yet intrieging. Every sentence feels like there is more than meets the eye.

Me

Hi, my name is Bryson if you haven't already figured that out. I attend Greer Middle College Charter High School, before I enrolled, I endured Greer Middle. My passion in life is my music, I listen to music whenever I can and I also compose music as well. I have been playing guitar for right at four years and take lessons at Phil's Music in Greer. I enjoy playing acoustic along with electric it just depends what kind of mood I'm in. Along with guitar I play another stringed instrument; ukulele. For my last birthday one of my good friends gave me an incredible accordion and so I'm still in the process of learning how to produce anything remotley to music. I am still getting over a rough time in my life, see my mom past away last November and she was a really important person in my life so I'm still learning how to deal with that; so if I'm ever down in class or whatever just know what's up. Last year was the hardest year I have ever gone through and I'm really hoping that this year will be much better. As of right now life is actually the best it has been in a while; my band is going great we are hoping to get a record deal soon and we are talking to the guy that produced Kiss's frist record so im stoked about this opportunity. I also have an incredible girlfriend (Haven) who helps me a lot and is a major part of my life, and no she doesnt go to our school. Writing is a passion of mine as well, a few weeks after my mom passed I started getting into poetry to get all of my emotions out and was told that it was actually pretty good so because of that and the fact that I thouroughly enjoyed it I continued. I would sometimes write about five poems a day and I am actually working on writing a poetry book and I'm going to try to get it published. Along with my poetry book I am working on a book of short stories and a distopian novel; if your interested in my writing it would be super stellar to send you some and get some feed back. My hero is Ghandhi along with Edgar Allen Poe they are just incredible and inspire me to just be who I am and with Ghandhi to be a good leader and never stop believing. I am also in Boy Scouts. I have been in scouting since I was in the first grade. My dad is my Scoutmaster and was also my Cubmaster, I am working on my Eagle (the last rank in scouting, highly regarded) I should have it by the end of this year. I work up at a summer camp called Camp Old Indian as a councler. This job entails dealing with kids all day and getting to teach them fun classes and getting to see them have a great time, so I know what it's like being a teacher.Well I will see ya at school keep it real and hope I didn't bore you too much.


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