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Jim (his surname is never disclosed), a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. The court strips him of his navigation command certificate for his dereliction of duty. Jim is angry with himself, both for his moment of weakness, and for missing an opportunity to be a 'hero'. At the trial, he meets Charles Marlow, a sea captain, who in spite of his initial misgivings over what he sees as Jim's moral unsoundness, comes to befriend him, for he is "one of us". Marlow later finds Jim work as a ship chandler's clerk. Jim tries to remain incognito, but whenever the opprobrium of the Patna incident catches up with him, he abandons his place and moves further east. Later, Marlow's friend Stein suggests placing Jim as his factor in Patusan, a remote inland settlement with a mixed Malay and Bugis population, where Jim's past can remain hidden. While living on the island he acquires the title 'Tuan' ('Lord'). Here, Jim wins the respect of the people and becomes their leader by relieving them from the predations of the bandit Sherif Ali and protecting them from the corrupt local Malay chief, Rajah Tunku Allang. Jim wins the love of Jewel, a woman of mixed race, and is "satisfied... nearly". The end comes a few years later, when the town is attacked by the marauder "Gentleman" Brown. Although Brown and his gang are driven off, Dain Waris, the son of the leader of the Bugis community, is slain. Jim returns to Doramin, the Bugis leader, and willingly takes a fatal bullet in the chest from him as retribution for the death of his son.

Lord Jim is a novel by using Joseph Conrad initially posted as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event inside the tale is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by using its team, together with a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this movement and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to phrases with himself and his beyond.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim eighty fifth on its listing of the 100 first-class English-language novels of the 20 th century. Recovered from an injury, Jim seeks a function at the Patna, a steamer serving the delivery of 800 "pilgrims of an exacting belief" to a port on the Red Sea. He is hired as first mate. After a few days of easy sailing, the deliver hits some thing in the night and starts offevolved taking on water. The captain thinks the ship will sink, and Jim is of the same opinion, however wants to positioned the passengers on the few boats earlier than that could happen. The captain and other crewmen suppose handiest to shop themselves, and prepare to decrease a boat. The helmsmen continue to be, as no order has been given to do otherwise. In a essential second, Jim jumps into the boat with the captain. A few days later, they're picked up by using an outbound steamer. When they reach port, they learn that the Patna and its passengers had been delivered in safely through a crew from a French navy ship. The captain's moves in forsaking both deliver and passengers are against the code of seamen and the team is publicly vilified. When the alternative men depart city before the Justice of the Peace's court docket can be convened, Jim is the only team member left to testify. All lose their certificate to sail. Brierly, a captain of perfect popularity who's at the panel of the court, commits suicide days after the trial.

Marlow narrates the story of Lord Jim, a promising young man who falls from grace, then attempts to redeem himself in Patusan, a fictional Indonesian island. His story is told entirely through the perspectives of Marlow and others who join their voices to his, and so the enigma at the centre of Jim's character and actions is never entirely resolved. Marlow also narrates Conrad's novels Heart of Darkness and Youth and Chance.

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past.

"Lord Jim", Conrad’s most famous work published in 1900, is also his most extensive examination of a persistent theme: the conflict between an individual’s inner moral code and his or her outward actions. They say we never really know ourselves until a crisis comes, that it is in those split-second, life-or-death decisions that we discover who we really are. Are we brave? Are we cowardly? Something better, or maybe worse? These are the questions upon which Joseph Conrad's novel, "Lord Jim", center.Considered to be one of the most important novels in all of English literature, "Lord Jim" tackles those dark questions that haunt the human spirit, questions we dare not admit to ourselves, let alone to others. It explores the nature of courage, the enduring impact of mistakes made in an instant, the indifference of the universe, the complexities of speaking one's truth, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing oneself or another.As a young boy learning the sailor’s craft, Jim is certain he will meet the test of moral courage, but later, while serving as a first mate on the Patna, an old, unseaworthy steamer carrying Muslim pilgrims across the Indian Ocean, he fails the test. The Patna strikes an unknown object in the night and seems ready to sink. The crew, including Jim, abandons the ship and its passengers. When the drifting Patna is discovered and the events are revealed, Jim becomes an outcast, both literally and morally...