By Tuesday night, you should post a blog that draws some comparisons between the movie and the novella. Put some thought into it. This is a graded assignment and doesn't fit into the overall blog grade. It might be good to start with a passage from the text that can get your muse engaged. Below, I ve written my own to give you a guide line for length, depth and one way to compare. There are many way to compare them to one another. Make sure you give your blog a title.

Both Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness discuss the darkness of the mind. Kurtz in both represents the dark, maddened mind and in Apocalypse Now Captain Willard is also just as insane when he enters the jungle; anything goes to survive and end the mission. The insanity drawls out a side of the character that is real, but normally suppressed in civilized society. When these two characters, Kurtz and Willard, enter the uncivilized society where anything goes, their minds are released from the normal, civilized restraints; they let the wild take over and are now just as uncivilized as the people around them.
As Apocalypse Now continues and gets deeper into the story and deeper into the jungle, Willard becomes more and more insane. He kills almost at random and is on his toes constantly; he will not let his guard down but by not letting his guard down he becomes more insane. He is becoming more and more paranoid, until he kills a defenseless girl. The jungle seems to be sucking the sanity out of him, becoming more wild and unpredictable as he travels deeper into the wild.
In the book Heart of Darkness Marlow does not seem to go insane as he travels into the jungle. He keeps his sanity and civility about him. He still however feels the need and want to meet Kurtz; he wants to meet this man that is said to be insane. Marlow feels a pull toward Kurtz and so does Captain Willard. They along with the many others that know Kurtz are drawn to him. He has a pull; his insanity pulls people in to him. His wild, uncivilized thoughts pull in his followers, maybe because they want to experience something different or meet someone who has leash holding him back from doing what he wants to do or maybe the darkness has covered their minds too; maybe these men that follow are just as insane as Kurtz. Marlow is drawn to Kurtz like the others, but he does not ever seem to completely loose it. He gets close to wanting to stay with Kurtz, but overcomes this drawl. He overcomes the darkness and insanity. He wants to live through this experience and does not want to become darkened like the rest.
The darkness of the mind in both the movie and the book comes from the loss of civility and the development of the mindset that anything goes that the world is in the palm of your hand and you can do whatever you please with it and its people. There seem to be no morals or guidance. Everything seems to be lost and the mind is no longer functioning at a normal, civilized level.