Student Name: *Student ID: *1.In context of the entire passage, it is clear that “the gift” that the narrator thought had “vanished” (line 2) isa pair of shoeshis destinyhis belief in goodnessKurtz and his knowledgethe ivory2.In the first paragraph, it is likely the listeners find absurdity in the narrator’stale of adventure in the junglemelodramatic delivery of the storyinclusion of the detail of the shoesfocus on the behavior of the savagesdesire to relive the experience3.The narrator implies that the listeners cannot understand because they havenot traveled far from their homesalways had shoes and clothing readily available to themnever been without people to converse with in their own languagealways had the moral and physical constraints of societybeen raised on imperialistic propaganda4.Lines 31-33 imply thatwomen are disgusted by the violent behavior of mena man’s world is too different for a woman to comprehendwomen’s isolation from savagery has a civilizing influencewomen are unfit to have social equality with menmen find women’s pursuits to be trivial and quaint5.In lines 37-41, the wilderness is portrayed asunwaveringly protectiveinherently spiritualdeceptively destructiveunexpectedly rejuvenatingaggressively hostile6.The antecedent of “its” in line 41 is“the wilderness” (line 37)“ivory” (line 38)“his soul” (line 40)“inconceivable ceremonies (line 40)“devilish initiation” (line 41)7.In lines 51-55, the narrator finds Kurtz’s attitude to becourageousludicrousirresponsiblejustifiedhorrifying
