Ambiguous Adventure Character Analysis

In the novel Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane, the country of the Diallob¨¦ is entirely ruled by a culture of faith, a mystical faith that gives the afterlife a supremacy. The Western world has, since the Renaissance, been engaged in a process of secularization that first "began, timidly, by putting God 'in parentheses.' Then two centuries later, having acquired more assurance, they decreed 'God is dead'". (100)
The West world is abundant in material but poor in spiritual, that creates an unparalleled historical circumstance with Diallob¨¦, and also for all the colonized people in Diallob¨¦. The Western culture places the colonized people in a dilemma with serious issues: how could one accept the West's rationalism without losing
Samba Diallo struggles between two cultures that seem primarily antagonistic: on the one hand, there are faith, death, and the resurrection, on the other hand, there are reason, life and salvation. During Samba Diallo's journeys, he meets several different people, the Knight who represents a culture of faith, and on his opposite, Paul Lacroix is an agnostic, the teacher of Diallob¨¦ appears in Diallo's illusion, and the fool. Although Diallo is the main character in the novel, through the conversations between other contemporaneous people, in the big circumstance, many people not only Samba Diallo, are suffering in the clash of culture. Finally, Samba Diallo chooses to die in order defend his
Of course, Samba Diallo's death can be considered the symbol of his failure to reconcile faith and reason, and through him, the failure of the Diallob¨¦ to build strong dwellings and to save God inside these dwellings. However, the ambiguity of this death allows him to see a possibility of reconciling these two orders. Samba Diallo, by refusing to live without God, becomes a martyr in the same ranks as "so many people [who], here and elsewhere, have fought and are dead, joyously ¡­ In dying amid the great clamor of battles waged in the name of your Friend, it is themselves whom all these fighters want to banish, so that they may be filled with Him". (173) In this light, we see Samba Diallo's death as an escape from the temptation of materialistic culture and a triumph of faith, which thereby maintains its