1. A quote that illistrates Leopold. "Leopold's letters and memos, forever badgering someone about aquiring a colony, seem to be in the voice of a person starved for love as a child and now filled with an obsessive desire for an emotional substitute, the way someone becomes embroiled in an endless dispute with a brother or sister over an inheritance, or with a neighbor over a property boundry" (38).
2. A quote that illistartes Stanley, "Stanley was always uncomfortable with anyone whose talens might outshine his own" (49). I know this quote is short, but I feel it illistrates two important things about him. One that he likes to take credit for everything he can, so that he can look like a hero, and two because I picture him as aqueweried and uncomfortable, so it is obvious to me that if there were supiriors around he would be very uncomfortable.
3. I agree wih this quote, "What mattered was the size of the profit. His drive for colonies, however, was shaped by a desire not only for money but for power. In western Europe, after all, times were fast changing, and a king's rolewas not as enjoyable as it once had been" (39). I feel that these people, in this time, are so greedy and only care about money and whatever other resources they can collect.
I found them greedy and insensative. They only cared about what resources they could collect and what money they could make. It was kinda terrible that he collected a group to help them become civilized. How does he know whats going on there? This was such a sneaky persuit; he blinded the people for his own selfish needs.
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