The Trinidad-born British writer. When he was eighteen, Naipaul moved to England on a university scholarship. He has published his work divides almost equally into fiction and non-fiction. In ‘One Out of Many’, narrated by a Bombay servant, Santosh, who accompanies his Indian employer to the United States, the humour that differentiate Naipaul’s earlier fiction is still apparent, although it is overlaid with a sense of tragedy. Searching for connections in Washington, DC, Santosh at first mistakes a group of hippies for fellow-Hindus, and is troubled by the presence of African-Americans (he refers to them by the Urdu word ‘hubshi’, meaning Ethiopian) who, according to his cultural norms, are …show more content…
He is unware of the reality that he has become an illegal immigrant worker without a green card, thus, can be busted anytime.
Despairing times call for despairing measurements: despite of his avoidance, he feels obliged to get married to the’ ’hubshi’’ lady to become an American citizen, due to he no longer intends to come back to Bombay. He says for instance, ‘’I couldn’t easily become part of someone else’s presence again”
According to clothes we have seen several sorts of clothes such as: Caftan-aftan, Saris, Canvas shoes, and so on. Apparently, Santosh didn’t use to live as “city man” in Bombay; however, despite of his employer “Sahib” warned him many times’ ’Washington is not Bombay’’. When he was in the aeroplane traveling from Bombay to America., since his clothes is not as much good-looking as they were worn. His normal Bombay garment, the loose long tailed shirt and the wide-waisted pants held up with a piece of string. In addition to the flight attended who was on board of the plane saw him as geek as alien, because his way of wearing his clothes were