Pg 52-53 "His aspect…does not smoke"
In this passage the Russian, a rather eccentric character living at Mr. Kurtz’s station, is introduced. One of the first impressions we get of the Russian is color – the description of him as a brightly-patched harlequin is startlingly juxtaposed with the previous descriptions of the jungle and the people and brown, gray, white, and black. With such juxtaposition, the Russian certainly seems very out of place at the station, along with the description of his blond, blue-eyed, fair features. This was a character not meant to exist in this environment, and yet he has managed to do so. It should also be noted that the colors of the patches on his clothing represent all the colors on the map at the beginning of the book. In a way, it is as though the Russian is a representation of all of Europe – his muddled background of nationalities and the colors of his clothing all come together to form, as mentioned before, a character and by extension, an entire group of people who do not belong.