Best of Week: Heart of Darkness Discussion

On Friday, we had a Heart of Darkness discussion about how there was no African perspective in the novel. I suggested that Marlow was made black, and this got a lot of people thinking. People began to argue that the story would lose its perspective. However, we also discussed how an African could be incorperated into the story so that we as readers could see the Africans' view of the white men. If the frame narrator was black, or the Russian was black, then we could glean the African perspective. The reason why this was Best of Week is because this discussion really forced us to analyze all of the poins of view of the characters and how they were related; It was the most involved discussion all week. I see myself analyizing future thoughts from multiple points of view now because it provides a better understanding of what the story/discussion is about.