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    Moral Poverty In "What is Poverty?" Theodore Dalrymple argues that the poverty in England is not economic‚ it is moral and spiritual. In the text "The City by the Sea" by Shiva Naipaul discusses the poverty in Bombay and its economic and moral connections. Theodore Dalrymple also argues that the poverty his situation in England is worse than poverty in Third World countries. I agree with Dalrymple’s first thesis‚ but in Naipaul’s essay the life conditions are more miserable than England. That’s

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    edu/essays/fiction/beka_lamb.html>. Misrahi-Barak‚ Judith. Ed. The Wake in Caribbean Literature: a Celebration of Self-knowledge and Community. 17 Apr. 2012. Web. 4 Apr. 2013. < http://laboratoires.univ-reunion.fr/oracle/documents/224.html>. Naipaul‚ V.S. “Miguel Street”. United States. Vintage Books Publishers. (1959): 13-27‚ 204-07. Print.

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    Travel Writings‚ Essays and Stories. V.S. Naipul’s creative corpus accommodates collection of stories‚ essays and travel writings and there has always been a sense of rediscovery of his works. As a writer of multiple heritages‚ Naipaul remains an instable traveler and has undergone transformation from a novelist to a story writer and essayist of acute observation of world issues‚ specially the issues faced by the Third world countries. Naipaul’s fictions and

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    Kinsella and Naipaul deal with prejudice in remarkably different ways in their two stories "Panache" and "The Baker’s Story". Through the use of setting‚ character‚ and tone‚ these authors try to convey their views on the ways that preconceptions can be proved wrong. "Panache" and "The Backer’s Story" show how prejudice can be overcome in an idealistic and a realistic manner. In "Panache"‚ Kinsella used a variety of contrasting settings‚ by comparison‚ in "The Baker’s Story" Naipaul used a handful

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    Tales of the Diaspora When VS Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in 2001‚ he said: “It is a great tribute to England‚ my home‚ and India‚ the land of my ancestors…” It is a heritage he shares with Jhumpa Lahiri‚ who was born in London and immigrated to America with her Indian-born parents.  “While I am American by virtue of the fact that I was raised in this country‚ I am Indian thanks to the efforts of two individuals‚” she said‚ referring to her parents‚ in an interview with Newsweek in 2006. They have

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    characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator (who is departing for college) gifts representing their own attitudes toward life. Thus‚ the narratives are tied together‚ justifying the label “novel.” According to V. S. Naipaul‚ the genesis of Miguel Street was a shout that he remembered from a Port of Spain boyhood: “What happening there‚ Bogart?” The purpose of the novel is to answer that question. What happens in Miguel Street seems to be a repeated pattern of aspiration

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    University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2009 Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile David S. Morgan University of Tennessee - Knoxville Recommended Citation Morgan‚ David S.‚ "Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel and the Dilemma of Exile. " PhD diss.‚ University of Tennessee‚ 2009. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/624 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open

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    The River as a Symbol in “A Bend in the River” Rivers within a well written novel are a representative of a great variety of things. Within the book “A Bend in the River” by V.S. Naipaul‚ as the name implies‚ the river is a very significant symbol throughout the novel that shows representation for many aspects of the plotline‚ ranging from an ever-changing lifestyle to the vitality of the country in which it resides and the people affected by its welfare. The town by the bend in the river

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    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‚

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    Cited: Cartey‚ William. Introduction to Negritude: Black Poetry from Africa and the Carribean. Damas‚ Leon. Negritude: Black Poetry from Africa and the Caribbean. Hippolyte‚ Kendel. "The Drum-Maker" Naipaul‚ V.S. A House for Mr. Biswas. Vintage Books: New York‚ 1961. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vnaipaul.htm http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/house_for_biswas.pdf

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