![]() ![]() In time, the story grows clear, pieced together for the reader. Suddenly, we encounter Jim speaking at the official Inquiry, which is attempting to gather facts about the event. ![]() The reader is given no reason for the vibration and the eventual conclusion of the incident. One night, as the ship sails quietly through the Arabian sea, the crew, including Jim, feels a strange vibration disturb the underbelly of the ship. ![]() ![]() There are five white men on board, as crew, and the voyage is led by a fat, crazy, German captain. Then, after a long injury and hospital stay, instead of deciding to return to England, Jim accepts the position of chief mate of the Patna, an old local steamship carrying 800 Muslim pilgrims to Mecca. The story then cuts to an early incident where Jim lost an opportunity to prove his mettle: he "leapt" too late, missing his chance. With his youthful, romantic aspirations for the sea, he is physically powerful he has "Ability in the abstract." He roams the Asian south seas as a water-clerk, moving from place to place, always trying to outrun, it seems, a particular fact of his past. Just how he is to become "Tuan Jim" or " Lord Jim," however, remains to be told. Jim, the well-loved son of an English parson, goes to sea to make a name for himself. ![]()
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