`` An Outpost Of Progress `` By Joseph Conrad And William...

â€Å"What are your thoughts?† â€Å"When reading seems to be an activity with which fewer and fewer people engage, what is the point of reading fiction or poetry? It seems to be the case, as one critic claims, that it’s not that â€Å"Johnny can’t read† but that â€Å"Johnny won’t read.† Fiction is evocative and subjective. It s made up and indirect in its communication. Fiction may evoke feelings and perception on the human condition and teach us just how fragile our cultures are from keeping history and thought between the lines. In the story â€Å"An outpost of progress† by Joseph Conrad and in William Blake s â€Å"London† we can see for ourselves the human condition of conflict and mortality. Fiction is subjective. A novel or poem is from an authors imagination and way of thinking. The characters and situations are made up. Readers do not expect fiction to portray the real world yet expect fiction to just reflects it. Yet fiction can seem real without being total fact showing us the human condition in culture. Poems can capture feelings or images to perfection with only the sound of the spoken language. In the story â€Å"An outpost of progress† by Joseph Conrad we see both conflict and mortality when Carlier and Kayerts both go through tribulations to become successful. With constant arguing and making a deal for slave trading, during a seemingly trivial matter after losing moral throughout the story, sugar sparks an irrational, uncontrolled and violent conflict between them ends with