What detail from heart of darkness shows the ineffectivenesss of the colonizers

The purpose of colonization, supposedly was to install the European way of life and values on the Natives and civilize them by assimilation. In reality, the colonizers did not care about the integrity of Natives, treated them as savages and were only concerned with wiping them out of the region for economic gain.

In Heart of Darkness, there are plenty of examples that detail how ineffective colonizers were at integrating their own culture onto theirs: like the time Europeans intended to build a railway line in Congo and "prepared" the grounds by unnecessarily blowing up with gunpowder a whole region that was of no interference. In general they did not care at all for their well being, letting them starve and die.

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the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.