Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe both involve the colonization on Africa. In Heart of Darkness, the author talks about how savage the natives were and how much there was a need to update the living conditions of the natives and to help them become better people. In Things Fall Apart, the author talks about how the white people came in with their bicycles and their new …showed first 75 words of 1120 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1120 total…man is like the invasion of the natives lifestyle. They come into the natives land and try to change all there traditions and believes and as well cause some of the natives to join with them, which causes even more problems, therefore, Achebe and Conrad have very different perceptions on the effects of colonization on Africa. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart, Doubleday, 1959 Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, Doubleday and J.M Dent & Sons Ltd., 1902