What is the central claim made by the narrator in this passage?
a) seamen are obtuse individuals who have very little idea of what is going on around them.
b) seamen are mostly uninterested in land-related matters, but marlow has a wider range of interests.
c) seamen like to tell stories, but marlow hates to spin yarns.
d) seamen, marlow included, are dreamers who never really like to face reality squarely in the face.

In this central claim made by the narrator in this passage.

seamen are mostly uninterested in land related matters but Marlow had a wide range of interests

Marlow a seamen, was out of job for a certain period. He needed a ship but got nothing. He got appointed quite smoothly owing two things : his aunt's relations in the higher administration and the murder one of the ship's captain in Congo. Marlow calls the land of the Congo " prehistoric" and he considered himself among the first of man taking possession of an accursed inheritance.

Marlow exposes the bitterness of American life .

the anger of unstirred of the white men that killed them without any resort. The black peoples escaping the invading whites and in doing so, they were being slaughtered either by hunger or they were being caught by the "civilized" white man that yoked them for drudgery. The natives are also enemies of each other. tribal system is also there and utterly divided Africa which lured was engulfed in darkness and invited a rather graver darkness of greed and lust from outside its heart

an unbound book has no cover; paris is a single man

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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