The novel "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad is a story about a sailor named Jim who has to go through life trying to put a hideous act of cowardice behind him. He has no place to call his own, and it seems as though his history follows him everywhere he goes. This makes it difficult to keep a job because not only does everyone know what he did, but also he knows that they look …showed first 75 words of 622 total…

…showed last 75 words of 622 total…conscience should not be too heavy if you make a mistake, as long as you learn from it. Lord Jim is a novel about the growth of one man, trying to outrun his past, only to find out that you cannot take back what you have done, but you can move on. Conrad has made an attempt to show important self-confidence is, and how if you cannot live with yourself, no one else will either.