In the book Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad; it caused some controversy among other writers. Chinua Achebe, author of An Image of Africa, claims that Conrad is a “bloody racist” and his book dehumanizes Africans. While Wilson Harris, the author of The Frontier Where the Heart of Darkness Lies, believes that Conrad is using a novelistic theme, Achebe is misreading Conrad and his novel, and Joseph Conrad is not a racist and his protagonist Marlow is just a character that is part of Conrad's imagination coming to life on paper, but they bear no resemblance. Chinua Achebe's reaction to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is not a positive response. He believes that Conrad is a racist and writes in a way to make readers believe that racism is okay. “Joseph Conrad was a total racist… white anti-African racism is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unnoticed.” Achebe describes Conrad and his novel as racist and dehumanizing towards Africans, and Conrad makes it seem like something normal. Wilson Harris writes in his piece that he believes Achebe's Heart of Darkness argument is exaggerated: but I am convinced that his judgment or rejection of Heart of Darkness - and of Conrad's strange genius - is profoundly wrong. He sees the distortions of images and, therefore, characters in the novel as a testament to Conrad's horrendous prejudice in his view of Africa and Africans (86). Harris argues that Achebe misunderstands the novel and the author, and is overanalyzing Conrad's ideas. "imagination" and the fact that he made it an issue of bias. I believe Achebe takes a drastic measure to propose that Heart of Darkness should not be studied or read in class... halfway through the paper... of It; not a sentimental fiction but an idea; and altruistic faith in the idea. (282) He says it's a long quote; but it is necessary so that we can fully understand that the character and the author are two separate people. “A long but necessary quote as it once again separates the author from the character.” (282)Heart of Darkness is a well-known novel written by a major writer and is read, studied, and discussed in classrooms. Although the book has been praised by some; there was some controversy among others. Somewhere I believe Achebe is overanalyzing the novel and is just assuming based on what he has read, as Wilson Harris and CP Sarvan stated in their piece. But the other part of me believes Achebe is right, I don't agree that Conrad is a racist; but there must have been a reason why he wrote this book.