I did this for my summer reading, and post this on my Student Clubs
Summary of Exterminate All the Brutes
Summary of Exterminate All the Brutes
Summary of the second chapter:
There are many things happened in the second chapter. I’m going to list three most relative and important things in this chapter.
The first one is about the main character Kurtz in Conrad's book, ‘the Heart of Darkness’. Kurtz resembles Stanley, who exterminates the brutes and became the idol. Just like other dictators, both have guns, which mean power, and they want to establish a new imperialism/colonialism. People in the ‘great human’s’ countries are very innocent, and they just believe what the dictators tell them the it’s fake. Then the dictators get more and more supporters, and their ideas of establishing imperialism inflate. (P43)
The second one is that the improvements of guns. The guns get lots of improvements in 19th century. At the generation of guns, their range was only a hundred yards. And it took at least one minute to load the gun between each shot. But at the end of 19th century, it came out real good guns such as Gras rifle, and the Prussians with the Mauser. Those guns are called arms to the imperialism/colonialism. The most common thing to the imperialism/colonialism is that all of them got the arms and try to make it harder than anyone else. And whether they own the arm is also the difference between imperialism/colonialism. (P47-P50)
The second one is that the improvements of guns. The guns get lots of improvements in 19th century. At the generation of guns, their range was only a hundred yards. And it took at least one minute to load the gun between each shot. But at the end of 19th century, it came out real good guns such as Gras rifle, and the Prussians with the Mauser. Those guns are called arms to the imperialism/colonialism. The most common thing to the imperialism/colonialism is that all of them got the arms and try to make it harder than anyone else. And whether they own the arm is also the difference between imperialism/colonialism. (P47-P50)
The last material is about the Battle of Omdurman. All the imperialisms/colonialisms don’t respect the ‘brutes’ because they think they’re brutes. But ‘brutes’ need respects, although they can be conquered and surrenders. Just like Somabulano said in his speech at the peace negotiations :”You came, you conquered…But the Children of Stars can never be dogs .”(P62) Then, it caused the conflict, and they will have a final battle just like the Battle of Omdurman. Although the ‘brutes’ can’t even get close and hurt the ‘great man,’ they’ll still fight back because they know ‘You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain’. No doubt hundreds of ‘brutes’ will die. It’s really an ironic that the imperialisms/colonialisms think they’re great humans, but they try their best to become the leader of the brutes.
Summary of the third chapter
They don’t know die, the quotes of Thomas, the level of people. The Origin of Species,
This chapter explains the Lindqvist’s experience and thoughts in the desert first. When he is desert, he realizes something was missing in his education. He never learned how to die. In other words, he didn’t really learn what the death is. Just like other normal people, they don’t really feel die, they don’t know if it’s happy or sad, relax or nervous, confortable or painful. They don’t really care about it. Why? Because they are the imperialisms/colonialisms, no one can hurt them. “Exterminate all the brutes” is just a great excuse to the imperialisms/colonialisms As Darwin’s research shown no one can exterminate any other species except the power from nature. As Tomas Jefferson said, “If one link in Nature’s chain be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should vanish by piecemeal.” Those thoughts don’t work for imperialisms/colonialisms because all they need is a good excuse to get the profits.
Furthermore, are the people in Africa and other poor place real brutes? No, they are not brutes. There’s a very good example showing that why the ‘great human’ say they are brute. Cuvier is the Napoleon of French science, but for a man of such power, he was unusually skeptical of hierarchies. To him, the belief in a “ladder” of creatures was the greatest of all scientific mistakes. (P99) However, in his great sixteen-volume work “The Animal Kingdom” he divided human beings in to three races. He had forgotten that no hierarchies existed. (P99) The thought of Cuvier is just like any other dictators of imperialisms/colonialisms Once, when somebody hurts their profits, they try to prevent it. But when they have chances and power to deprive others’ profits, they’ll forget their own profits-protection thoughts and try to get the best excuse they can. So, those people are not brutes anymore. “Brutes” is only a call from imperialisms/colonialisms
This chapter explains the Lindqvist’s experience and thoughts in the desert first. When he is desert, he realizes something was missing in his education. He never learned how to die. In other words, he didn’t really learn what the death is. Just like other normal people, they don’t really feel die, they don’t know if it’s happy or sad, relax or nervous, confortable or painful. They don’t really care about it. Why? Because they are the imperialisms/colonialisms, no one can hurt them. “Exterminate all the brutes” is just a great excuse to the imperialisms/colonialisms As Darwin’s research shown no one can exterminate any other species except the power from nature. As Tomas Jefferson said, “If one link in Nature’s chain be lost, another and another might be lost, till this whole system of things should vanish by piecemeal.” Those thoughts don’t work for imperialisms/colonialisms because all they need is a good excuse to get the profits.
Furthermore, are the people in Africa and other poor place real brutes? No, they are not brutes. There’s a very good example showing that why the ‘great human’ say they are brute. Cuvier is the Napoleon of French science, but for a man of such power, he was unusually skeptical of hierarchies. To him, the belief in a “ladder” of creatures was the greatest of all scientific mistakes. (P99) However, in his great sixteen-volume work “The Animal Kingdom” he divided human beings in to three races. He had forgotten that no hierarchies existed. (P99) The thought of Cuvier is just like any other dictators of imperialisms/colonialisms Once, when somebody hurts their profits, they try to prevent it. But when they have chances and power to deprive others’ profits, they’ll forget their own profits-protection thoughts and try to get the best excuse they can. So, those people are not brutes anymore. “Brutes” is only a call from imperialisms/colonialisms
