Student+Responses+-+An+Outpost+of+Progress

This story showed to me again that colonize is predicted to fail. From the beginning the outcome of the story is clear; the director sends two useless men to a useless station. The two white men could be any colonial administrators at this time; the colonizers were incompetent; they were unable to survive without the help of the natives. The idea to rule a state how far away from the reality our thinking is. I couldn’t feel with any character, except the natives. (Linda)

I really enjoyed reading the story. In the beginning I did not really understand the story but later ist was ok. It was a bit confusing, how the characters reacted in their circumstances. Like linda, I could not feel with any character. (Theresa)

In contrast to the lenght of the story, nothing happened. The action in the story could have been told in less pages. But all in all the story has an interesting plot. In could not imagine to live in such a situation. (Astor; tiped in with theresas account)

I liked the story, because of its depth and its detailed description of the events, showing the changes that the protagonists undergo. Although it was a lot harder to read than the other stories, I enjoyed the challenge of my English skills. 1278615044~

The length of the story shocked me a little bit. Like astor I would say, the plot is too spare in contrast to the length. Nevertheless the story "could" you give a very good insight in the collonial situation for two "allone-britain" men. But therefore you have to understand every detail, and if I read, I wo´nt jump down every line to look after a missing word... and there were many in this story !! 1278619399