The Ghost in scene 1: Do we trust him?

"The Danger of a Single Story" by Chimamanda Adichie

You can listen to the lecture here:
http://blog.ted.com/2009/10/07/the_danger_of_a/

Achebe on Conrad: read it here

http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html

Heart of Darkness assignment

The Commentary Passages are available in the Heart of Darkness folder above (see pages).
Each member of the class must do one.  Commit yourself to your passage by posting a comment on this post with your name and the passage number.  First come, first serve.

Whited Sepulchre...

and Addie's Coffin:

"It had been dead eight days, Albert said. They came from some place in Yoknapatawpha County, trying to get to Jefferson with it. It must have been like a piece of rotten cheese coming into an anti-hill, in that ramshackle wagon that Albert said folks were scared would fall all to pieces before they could get it out of town, with that home-made box and another fellow with a broken leg lying on aquilt on top of it, and the father and a little boy sitting on the seat and the marshal trying to make them get out of town." Moseley, p. 193

I get that I can't see the story, but how am I supposed to write about it?

Click on the link to read a terrific lecture on Heart of Darkness:
http://mural.uv.es/rosegar/critica1.htm