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Fog is a natural formation that is caused by suspended water vapor. Fog is formed in three different ways as stated by weatherquestions.com. These are, “Rain fog”, “Radiation fog” and “Advection fog” (Weather Questions). These three types of fog are natural phenomenon formed by a warm body making contact with a cool body in the presence of moisture. Radiation fog is formed when the air is the cool body and the earth or body of water is the warm body. The earth or the water releases the warm moisture into the air where it is quickly cooled to past the “dew point”. This cooling results in a suspended cooled mist of water which results in fog. This creates a fog that we are most familiar with that fills up the air. Advection fog; however, forms in just the opposite way. It is created by a humid and warm body of air making contact with a cold lake or landmass. The effect is that the warm air mass is then cooled creating suspended cooled water vapor. This type of fog normally forms on cold bodies of water and the fog tends to be low due to the limited ability for the moist warm air to make contact with the cold surface. The final form of fog is rain fog. This fog is the simplest of forms of fog to understand. As rain falls from the upper levels of the Troposphere “between 8 and 16 kilometers”, the warm air heats the cold water as it passes through (Tamu). This creates fog in a similar process to Advection fog due to the cooled liquid causing a fog in warm air. However, due to the cooled liquid traveling through the warm body of air, instead of it being below the warm body of air, the fog is created throughout the body of air instead of just near the cold surface. This fog occurs the least due to the specific conditions required; a light, cold rain through a warm body of air. Natural fog is created in a scientifically provable way, and forms under specific conditions. In many forms of media fog is used to direct the audience to a specific point. In many movies, directors use thick fog to set a dark, gloomy, and spooky tone to the scene and to introduce evil characters. Fog is used in the exact same way in Literature. In Heart of Darkness, fog appears when Marlow contemplates Kurtz. This fog is not truly the same as natural fog but a symbol of the indecisions that Marlow has about Kurtz and different characters in the book. This indecision is plainly shown by Marlow’s internal accusations of the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims are not actually pilgrims, but they are agents for the trading company. They want to learn from Kurtz and get their own station to collect ivory and earn lots and lots of money. The pilgrims fear Kurtz but respect him because he has the best results. He states that he hopes that he is “unappetizing” to the “unwholesome pilgrims” (book). The more characters are associated with Kurtz and the closer they get to Kurtz, the more “fog” Marlow has surrounding the personalities of the characters. This literary fog clouds Marlow’s judgment into