HOD #11

“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums…and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country” (p.17). The sound of bells in a Christian country is the Christian people’s call. The narrator relates these people to Christians and the far-off drums to bells. He says how “appealing, suggestive, and wild” the tremor of these drums is to these people, similar to the bells for Christians. Bells are usually located at a church, the meeting place for Christians. The mentioning of Christianity in Conrad's novel suggests that he could have been Christian. He might have been relating to his own experiences. The sound of the drums in this story could be coming from the tribe's confluence.