This book shows one of most important thing in our live: What we have done, can't be erased even though we'd like to.
Lord Jim is a very naive, young man who always wanted to be a heroe.
This novel is a tragic story of a young naval officer, who is haunted by feeling that he has lost its way, when in a seemingly hopeless situation he left a sinking ship regardless of the endangered passengers, and who seeks redemption from the guilt by helping native people in the village of Malaysia by defending against a invasion of white colonizers.
This book has been also filmed in 1965.