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Why is this sentence important in the passage Heart of Darkness? Write in your own words.

He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.

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Answer:Here, “heart of darkness” is a shorthand for European stereotypes of Africa

Which Conrad's novel did its part to reinforce. Hamid's line plays on racist anxieties about immigration: the idea that certain places and peoples are primitive, exotic, dangerous

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