My noodle

MOTIFS

Savages

“They passed me within six inches, without a glance, with that complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages.” Pg 80

“And between whiles I had to look after the savage who was a fireman.” Pg. 106

“even such as I had noticed in the howling sorrow of these savages in the bush.” Pg. 120

“If it had come to crawling before Mr. Kurtz, he crawled as much as the veriest savage of them all.” Pg. 134 

“and almost the same time I noticed that the crowd of savages” Pg. 135

Bones, skulls, death imagery:

“The thing looked as dead as the carcass of some animal.” Pg. 80

“They were dying slowly-it was very clear…Nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation.” Pg. 82

“These round knobs were not oranmental but symbolic.” Pg. 132

“It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand.” Pg. 135

“I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.” Pg. 147 

Rivets

“What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets.” Pg. 95

“but what I wanted was a certain quantity of rivets.” Pg. 96

“I demanded rivets.” Pg. 96

“We shall have rivets!  He scrambled to his feet exclaiming, “No rivets!” Pg. 97

“I had given up worrying myself about the rivets.” Pg. 99