Conflicts+-+An+Outpost+of+Progress

__**The Ironic Note**__
Particulary in the shortstory "An Outpost of Progress" the author uses a lot of irony. When we look at the plot we see that in this story the two white men Kayerts and Carlier. They are very arrogant. They call the natives primitive and stupid. The ironic meaning in this example is, that they are much more sillier and more stupid than the natives. The author jokes about that fact in a funny way, you can see very clear that the whites are really afraid of that whole african thing and that they hold their hands like little schoolgirls. In the end of the story Kayerts kills Carlier because they don´t get food from the natives any longer and they both became insane. That shows us how dependent the two white men are from the natives.

By David