Heart of Darkness - Part II

Section 1:
Marlow is on a boat heading toward the center of the Congo. He overhears the Station Manager and his Uncle talking about Kurtz and they are talking about how Kurtz wants to rise up in the ranks and make things more moral. They want him hanged.
The Eldorado Expedition sets off into the wilderness and Marlow finds out later that they are dead. He refers to them as "less valuable animals"
Marlow has 6 pilgrims and 20 cannibals with him on his journey to the Inner Station. The pilgrims are white men from Europe who aren't just there for trade, but Marlow doesn't talk about their mission because he doesn't consider them important enough. In Europe, the land is controlled, but in Africa is it free. Marlow is sort of connected with the cannibals and almost admires them becaues of their self-restraint. Marlow himself also has a lot of self restraint. The human mind is capable of handling anything and not succumbing to the horror keeps people sane.
Fifty miles below the Inner Station, Marlow find's a Russians book in an abandoned hut. The book is in English and Marlow is attracted to the book because it is a glimpse of sanity and shows the value of work. Marlow must work hard to keep the steamboat working and he uses work to keep himself from thinking. Work causes the truth to fade.
When they get close to the Inner Station, Marlow hears screaming. He can't see who's screaming because of the white mist. White is hiding evil.

Section 2:
Marlow doesn't think his boat will be attacked, but they get attacked and the helmsman, who is a native to Africa, is killed. He has been characterizing the land as savage that will attack, but he now realizes the land is teaming with life. The steamboat causes the natives grief because they think that Kurtz is going to be taken away.
Marlow thinks that Kurtz is dead and this bothers him because he never got to hear him speak. Kurtz has come to represent the importance of his mission, but he doesn't realize why Kurtz has become so important to him. He's now seeking Kurtz more than adventure. He compares himself to the agony of the savages to his sorrow at not being able to talk to Kurtz. It's as if he's been robbed of his beliefs or missed his destiny in life. Marlow finds out that Kurtz isn't dead. He gets to talk to Kurtz, but it's different than he had imagined. When they arrive at the Inner Station, they meet the Russian Harlequin, who left the book, and realize he is obsessed with Kurtz.
There is a jump in narrative that takes the reader to Marlow's encounter with Kurtz where they talk about the "intended". He thinks that women are not part of the darkness and help them stay out of the darkness. Kurtz is bald and his head is compared to ivory. What's in his head is as valuable as ivory. Kurtz things he's in charge and him saying, "My intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my..." shows this. However, the darkness has already taken over him. Kurtz symbolizes Europe. Europe couldn't handle the darkness and it would destroy them. In his pamphlet, he says the whites are treated as a deity and he is treated like one by the natives. He also says the exterminate all the brutes, but he seems to forget he wrote that.
The men on the Nellie can't relate to the insanity Kurtz experiences because they are still part of society.