Analysis Of One Out Of Many By Sir V. S. Naipaul

Sir V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian writer of Indian descent. Very famous for his novels. His novels, reached to developing countries .He received the Nobel Prize in 2001 for Half a Life, a story about an Indian immigrant to England and Africa. One of his stories too is One Out Of Many. This short story talks about the live of Santosh. Who moved to Washington to follow his employer who is an Indian cook employed by a Washington government, when Santosh moved he saw many stranger things. In addition, he had to choose a decision, if he must defend his culture or adapt to the situation he felt estranged. This short story in many times displays his confusion about his culture and identity, because he is a foreign person in plural country.
He was very excited when he heard about that invitation. When Santosh went to plane, he found that live with different culture is hard. In the way to Washington, people looked him as a strange person. Those were all formally. Santosh’s innocence in his way of dressing clothes leads the attention of people around him, because he is the only one who wears his domestic wear. He feels the dress of other passenger looked awful, because in his culture these are formal dresses. In addition, he forgot the difference between U.S Dollar and Indian Rupee. His employer gave him an advance payment, but on the same day, he spent all money, which is for nine
When Priya appeared he thought that he can change the identity. So, choosed to be with Priya who is in Indian. Thus, because he met someone of his country, he felt better. Santosh does not identify himself as a person who lives and works in Bombay, because he now lives in Washington. But when Priya talked about Bombay, Santosh felt that he “was a stranger in those places” (Naipaul, 2002, p. 43). Because the culture has been changed in him. Santosh susceptible to Priya because he is now self-awareness, restaurateur, whose talk and philosophy strongly attract him he remains Bombay when he sees them. Therefore, he runs away from his employer and begins to work as a cook in Priya’s restaurant, but because he does not have relations with surroundings he realized that his state is worse. Santosh at the end married the hubshi in advice of Priya, he is not happy by marriage. He just accepted the identity transition, because he strongly doesn’t want to repeat that again. Thus, it is so clear the deep pain he had because of leaving his identity. The perspective of the two cultures toward religion is different clearly. That was when the hubshi does not respect the sculpture by committing rape in front of the