WEEK 6
The title and cover of this book brought to me a lot of thinking, such as what was
considered as a monster in that period of time and why were there an imagery
portraying the monster vomited tons of skulls. I found out the answer for my first
question right on the same page where the title and the picture of the monster laid,
which is Imperialism.
For what I had known, Imperialism means that the stronger countries use their
forces to get the power of the weaker, like what French had made the region of
Indochina its colony. The reason that the Western countries or the United States
started to invade countries from all around the world are because of stealing
properties, expanding lands, enrich their home nation. But what I read surprised
me and gave me further knowledge and information on why these “tyrants”
became so greedy, despite the fact that some cherished liberty and loved peace,
even some established in the name of freedom and humanity. They – the imperialist
nations – stated some just reasons for construction of new empire, like permits
people to emigrate overseas and creates new markets for their nation’s commercial
products… but the author proved by evidences that all are just excuses they made
to cover the thirst for glory and profits.
It was not how a civilized society looked like, imperialism had blinded most of the
great nations’ eyes and controlled them to follow evil path. Why shouldn’t we
cooperate instead of acting violently to get what we want. The damage, the loss,
the destruction it brought were countless and couldn’t be reversed. What I think is
the most expensive is public morality, but imperialism had easily taken it away from
a nation, leaving moral qualities corruption in the society. And might these
countries vanish like the morning mist…
Y, you clearly have read the text, but keep working on coming up with critical questions
and thinking about specific moments in the text. Right now, this is primarily summative
(describing what's happening in the reading) rather than introducing a key question,
problem, or idea.
- Elizabeth Liendo