There is no possibility of saving everyone on the ship. Examining the damage, Jim concludes that the bulkhead is about to collapse. Several days out to sea, the ship hits some wreckage. After recovering from an injury, Jim ships out as first mate on the Patna, an elderly iron tramp steamer taking eight hundred "pilgrims of an exacting belief" to a port on the Red Sea. Afterward, he rationalizes this failure by telling himself that he was not afraid but waiting for a challenge worthy of his courage.
While still in training, Jim reveals a streak of cowardice when he fails to assist a vessel damaged during a storm. The son of an English parson, Jim decides at an early age to make his career at sea. The novel is framed as a conversation between an unnamed narrator and a sea-captain Charles Marlow: Marlow has spent many years ruminating about an acquaintance of his, a sailor named Jim who spent his short life fleeing the disgrace of a youthful decision to abandon ship. Lord Jim is a novel by the Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad, first published serially in Blackwood’s Magazine from 1899 to 1900, and widely regarded as a major achievement of twentieth-century fiction.
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