Read the excerpt.
“I heard him calling my name again with a great shriek, as when life is going out together with the voice—and I never turned my head. My own name! … My brother! Three times he called—but I was not afraid of life. Was she not there in that canoe? And could I not with her find a country where death is forgotten—where death is unknown.”
In “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, why does Arsat keep insisting that he loves his brother?
Arsat feels tremendous guilt for what has happened.
Arsat intends to go back to rescue his brother.
The white man questions Arsat’s love for his brother.
The white man says he never had a brother.
“I heard him calling my name again with a great shriek, as when life is going out together with the voice—and I never turned my head. My own name! … My brother! Three times he called—but I was not afraid of life. Was she not there in that canoe? And could I not with her find a country where death is forgotten—where death is unknown.”
In “The Lagoon” by Joseph Conrad, why does Arsat keep insisting that he loves his brother?
Arsat feels tremendous guilt for what has happened.
Arsat intends to go back to rescue his brother.
The white man questions Arsat’s love for his brother.
The white man says he never had a brother.
