Heart Of Darkness And The Secret Sharer

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Literary Analysis of the Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer

In this report the overall summaries of the Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer will

be explained. These two books were very exciting and had a lot of thrills in them. The author

Joseph Conrad did a great job displaying his creative ideas with these two books. Many literary

elements that are displayed in these books will be explained thoroughly and how effective they

were in these stories. After reading this paper the reader will have a better understanding of the

author and his creative writing style along with some very important literary elements that are

used in most stories.

In the first part of the Heart of Darkness is talking about a man named Marlow …show more content…

Description is also being used when they are describing the captain and Leggat and how they are

similar. This story is using the literary element fiction because it is not real or true. It is also

using imagery by clearly describing the setting. We also see the plot of the story forming because

the captain just encountered a peculiar man. The author is also using the literary element of genre

which is the category of a type of literature. The secret sharer would fit more into the action

In the last part of the Secret Sharer the captain of the other ship came by to check to see

if Leggat was on the ship, but the captain lied to keep him safe. Leggatt stayed on the ship for a

few days almost getting discovered a few times. One time Leggat had come really close to being

discovered by one of the crew members, but he managed to stay hidden the whole time. The ship

was on its way back to England but Leggatt asks to drop him off on some islands so that he can

live the rest of his life freely. The captain agrees and moves the ship closer to some islands

which was dangerous and made the crew upset. Leggatt had jumped off the ship and swam

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