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gets back, he negotiates with Brown, who agrees to leave
quietly. Jim's decision to let him go without a fight is
controversial, but Jim thinks it's best to avoid bloodshed.

But Brown wants revenge, and Cornelius is ready to help him. He
knows that Dain Waris is camped downstream with a group of men
who are guarding the river, and he leads Brown and his men up
behind the camp, where they stage a sneak attack. Dain Waris
and a number of others are killed. Jim's servant, Tamb' Itam,
witnesses the massacre, and he manages to kill Cornelius before
speeding to the village with the terrible news.

Jim and Jewel know that Doramin is going to want revenge for the
death of his son. Jewel begs Jim to either put up a fight or
escape with her; but Jim refuses. Proving once and for all
that, no matter what happened on the Patna, he's not afraid of
death, he goes to face Doramin. The angry old man shoots him
through the chest, and Jim falls dead.

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LORD JIM: JIM

Conrad's title character is a complex intellectual puzzle, and
it is very difficult to judge him. In deserting 800 pilgrims
aboard the Patna, Jim commits an action that's utterly
inexcusable. But Conrad provides facts that soften the crime in
every possible way. Jim genuinely believes that the ship is
about to sink, and that he can't do anybody any good by staying
aboard. Besides, his escape owes far more to an impulse--an
inexplicable impulse--than to any conscious decision. Moreover,
Jim has so many admirable qualities (which he demonstrates amply
in the second half of the novel) that it seems unfair to
remember him as the man who jumped off the Patna. And yet
that's how people do remember Jim--even his friend and champion
Marlow and, from what Marlow can gather, Jim himself.

According to Marlow, Jim is finally "not clear" to him. So it's
no wonder that the readers have reached no consensus about Jim,
either. The second half of the novel remains particularly
controversial. Some readers believe that Jim's accomplishments
in Patusan make up for his cowardice aboard the Patna. Others
are equally certain that his final blunder of judgment, a
blunder that costs many lives, is intimately linked with his
behavior on the Patna. (A deeper question arises: Is there a
scale on which you can balance a person's good acts against his
bad acts?)

Considering this moral ambiguity surrounding Jim, it's fitting
that the image he's most often associated with is mist. Marlow
complains that he can never get a clear picture of him, because