hierarchy

Question 1

HoD: ‘I respected his collars his vast cuffs, his brushed hair’

Answer 1

TLL: ‘shining his shoes’q

Question 2

HoD: ‘I respected his collars, his vast cuffs, his brushed hair

Answer 2

TLL: ‘one set of luggage, no place to sleep to go’

• power of three to emphasise suffering
• power of three to emphasise power

Question 3

HoD: ‘black shapes crouched…clinging to its earth’

Answer 3

TLL: ‘hop’ ‘baby smile’ ‘hide in the clothes closet’

= infantalisation = uneducated

Question 4

‘Tolroy growl’

Marlow when he arrives at the central station- ‘murmer of voices’ to ‘a violent babble of uncouth sounds’

Answer 4

• change in diction = narrator can’t comprehend african speech so reader cannot also
• substitution of ‘murmers of voices’ to ‘uncouth sounds’ = Marlow distancing himself - perceives a heirarchal relationship between Europeans and Africans
• uncouth = lacking refinement

Question 5

‘all you jamaican’

‘in the midst of the uproar the lamentable voice of the chief agent was heard’

Answer 5

-portrayed as a crowd with the individuality being deprived of
- In contrast, a distinct European voice rises from the
Africans’ unrecognizable faces and commingling utterances

Question 6

Marlow describes a scene after an African was killed; ‘angry and warlike yells’
‘tremulous and prolonged wail of mournful fear and utter despair’

Answer 6

African sounds now become readable to Marlow-

capable of identifying with and sympathizing with their grief