Question

who wrote this "his voice lost itself in the calm of the evening.The long shadows of the forest had slipped downhill while we talked,had gone far beyond the ruined hovel, beyond the symbolic row of snakes"

Answer 1

Joseph Conard wrote this line and it belongs to the novel “Heart of Darkness”

EXPLANATION:

• The given lines are from the novel 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conard.
• It was written back in 1899 when the King Leopold of Belgians treated people badly and in an inhuman way.
• There was a growing protest because of this treatment.
• The novel talks about the darkness a person has in his heart.
• The language used in the novel makes the reader feel that he is fighting through the jungle.
• So, we see expressions like 'shadows of forest slipped downhill' in the given lines as well.