Journal Dec. 9

Overall I enjoyed the book a lot. I thought that it was a lot easier to read anything in than Heart of Darkness but I also thought the story wasn't as interesting. I think this book showed that the African people didn't want to be colonized where as Heart of Darkness just showed that the Europeans wanted to colonize Africa. However I feel like Heart of Darkness showed that horrors of colonism where as this book didn't really touch upon the that. I felt like since the book used easier vocabulary the meaning wasn't  as strong. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad showed how bad colonialism was by being very descriptive of the African people's treatment. This book wasn't as descriptive which is why I feel like it didn't show how bad colonialism was. I feel like this book just showed that the African people didn't like colonialism.