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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: What is the bravery of the greatest warrior before the firearms
in the hand of a slave? He would walk toward them with a smiling
face, with his hands held out in a sign of submission till he was
very near them. He would speak friendly words--come nearer
yet--yet nearer--so near that they could touch him with their
hands and stretch them out to make him a captive. That would be
the time: with a shout and a leap he would be in the midst of
them, kriss in hand, killing, killing, killing, and would die
with the shouts of his enemies in his ears, their warm blood
spurting before his eyes.
Carried away by his excitement, he snatched the kriss hidden in
Almayer's Folly |
