Many African authors write stories that share the common themes wonder and journey. Two of which are Radiance of the King and Woman at Point Zero. These two each have similar attributes in which the protagonists Clarance and Firdaus start their journey off both naive and hopeful, but end with a different perceptive than what they started with. Although the characters Clarance and Firdaus are people of different sex and race and circumstances, both of their mentalities are complementary to each other and these similarities are shown at throughout their journeys.
Radiance of the King is a third person narrative about a man who is eager to speak to the king in …show more content…
Clarance is a White man who, in the world that he is from, was once viewed as a respected member of society. One can assume that, his mentality results from special treatment given to him in form his society. Clarnce is best described as an egotistic pompous fool. He thinks he knows more than the people living there and he believes he can fool. He is constantly disregards and questions anything anyone has to say; furthermore, his circumstances where not bad until he came to this unknown land. In contract to Clarance, Firdus is a woman from Egypt, Africa. She does not come from a strong stable background filled with unconditional love and foundation. She is constantly taken advantage by the men around her. She values education and hopes to attendant college one day hold a high profession career. Unlike Clarance, Firdus is eager to learn new things from people. She is ambitious, curious and she wants to know more. Dissimilar to Clarance, Her circumstances were undesirable until she entered prison. Despite the differences, the two share a common journey experience as they both fantasize and overestimate the outcome of their …show more content…
Clarance started his journey confidant that his Whiteness would ensure a working position alongside the king. (quote). We see here the persistence to the very end.. (quote) He in naive in the sense that being shipped wreck in a new country, with no knowledge of his surroundings, did not cause a sense of fear for Clarance. He kept a blind eye to any signs of danger and refused to aknolwege anything that was going on. (Quote)— Clarance did not consider that the locals, who waited years in desperation to see their king, would be insulted by the fact that Clarance thinks of himself as an exception. Similarity, being in school gave Faudus the hope that she would one day hold a leadership position and change the system. She becomes fascinated with issues concerning politics and women’s rights. She is hopeful and arguably naive because she is aware of the mistreatment put on women but still believes that this will soon stop. Her naivety is seen when she constantly referrers to her secondary education certificate as a security blanket and thinks that it would give her a job. She fails to understand that the system was set up to fail her and nothing that she could do to stop