"Cliff Notes - Lord Jim" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

power--especially after Marlow assures him that Jim is never
going to leave even though Jim and Dain Waris are best friends.
Dain Waris dies through the treachery of Brown and Cornelius,
but Doramin's rankling resentment leads him to avenge his son by
shooting Jim.

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LORD JIM: SHERIF ALI

Sherif Ali, "an Arab half-breed" and religious fanatic, has
incited the tribes in the interior to rise and terrorize the
countryside. He's built a stronghold on one of the twin hills
overlooking the village. Both the rajah and Doramin are wary of
him. Jim makes his name by leading Doramin's men into Sherif
Ali's supposedly impregnable camp and driving him out of
Patusan.

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LORD JIM: TAMB' ITAM

Jim's faithful servant, silent and dour, is another stock
character of escapist fiction. This name means "black clerk" in
Malay. Like Jim, he's an outsider (a Malay from the north) whom
the rajah took prisoner on his arrival in Patusan, and who
escaped to the Bugis. He witnesses the massacre of Dain Waris'
men, and he executes the treacherous Cornelius on the spot.
Much of Marlow's information about Jim's last days comes from
Tamb' Itam, who has escaped with Jewel to Stein's home in
Samarang.

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LORD JIM: JEWEL

"Jewel" isn't her real name (which Marlow never discloses), but
the English translation of Jim's affectionate Malay nickname for
her. She, too, is something of a stock figure--romantic and
tragic--but with slightly more depth of character than the other
Malays. Jewel's father abandoned her mother, who then married
Cornelius. Now the mother is dead, and Cornelius has
transferred his long bitterness to poor Jewel, whom he browbeats
constantly. She leads a miserable life until Jim arrives and
falls in love with her. But she's terrified that Jim will leave
her, as her father left her mother. When, at the end, he
marches off to die, her fierce love turns into bitterness.
Essentially she goes from one false picture of Jim to another.
During his lifetime, she won't believe anything bad of him;
after his death, she won't forgive him because, she insists, he
has abandoned her.

Though Jewel is fairly helpless in her dependency first on