A Mystery ( CRR )

In class we have been reading "The Heart Of Darkness" , we have been interperting, concluding, making ideas, assumptions, inferences to what is the them or who the book is about, yet we still do not know. Me & my group came up with the idea of the them to be "Mystery" , we chose this because as you are reading the book you hear many opinions and expressions about who Mr.Kurtz is but do not really know who he is , we also inferred that Marlow is racist yet we think he has a little bit of morality in him. We also thought that the brick maker was a good person ; however from reading the book more , I believe the brick maker is really the evil guy and not Mr. Kurtz. Another theme which came that connects to the brick maker being evil or not was the "Good or evil" theme which Taina's group came up with , which interested me a lot because it helped me connect to who really has morality in their beliefs. Hyra's group believe that theme was colonization which I can agree with because the book describes slaves and how they were enslaved , it describes the ways they were mistreated and blame for certain situations that occurred like the fire in the house that Marlow witnessed but didn't take in action for. This book is hard to understand but I believe that the Heart of Darkness is full of surprises which makes us keep changing our minds about a certain persons character in the book , which is why I believe the theme is a Mystery.